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1A VICTIM .or CIECUMSTAN UAL EVI
LENGE,
BT JAMEL PARTON.
I hesitate to relate the story of this
man’s life and death, fearing lest I should
seem to encroach upon the department
of fiction. It is, however, nothing btlt
facts, and stands recorded in the arc
hives of the Danish court; whence it has
been drawn by English and German law
writers, as the most remarkable case
which has ever occurred of circumstan
tial evidence convicting an innocent man.
The evidence not only convinced the ju
ry and court, but it actually made the
prisoner believe himself to be guilty of
a crime of which he was entirely inno
cent.
Soren Ovist was a Danish clergyman,
who had perished on the peninsula of
Jutland. Both as man and minister he
was held in esteem by his neighbors,
among whom he had lived most of bis
life. His one great fault was a hasty
and violent temper, of which, occasional
ly, he entirely lost control, when he
would break forth into a torrent of fu
rious words to his own sore humiliation,
and the great grief of his family. These
fits of anger were of brief duration, and
usually expended themselves in mere
violence of language. They were never
theless a subject of life long regret to
him, lowered his self-esteem, and trou
bled his conpciei.ce.
Among the parishoners was a farmer
by the name of Burns, a man of consid
erable property acquired by disreputa
ble means, who was held in aversion as
a hard man, unscrupulous, and an op
pressor of the poor. In those old coun
tries there is a wide difference in rank
between a clergyman of the national
church and the farmer, the clergyman
being what is technically called a gentle
man, while the farmer, though ever so
rich, is a peasant. Notwithstanding
this, Burns presuming upon bis wealth,
asked for the hand of the pastor’s daugh
ter in inarms. Tl*e offer was refused,
and probably not in the most courteous
and Considerate manner, the .fanner,
stujjg to the quick swoi’e to be ' re
venged, bqth upon the father and
daughter.*. , •#* ‘ .
S#she n*on!<i'S passed, -and the affair
was almost forgot!on. The clergyman
needed a farm servant for in thafeoun
try, all the clergymen cultivate a portion
of land! and he hired a poor brother of
the discarded suitor. He proved to be a
lazy insolent fellow, who irritated the
pastor to such a degree, that he not on
ly scolded him in round terms, but oc
casionally resorted to blows, and finally
the scene occurred which led to the pas
tor’s destruction.
Enraged one day at his servant’s neg
lect of duty and impudent tone of his
reply, the old man lost his self-control,
and seizing a spade, struck the man with
it several times, and seemed to knock
him down.
For a few moments he lay like one
dead, but when his master, in terror, be
gan to lift him up, he sprang to his feet,
leaped through the hedge of the garden
and disappeared in the adjacent wood.
He was not seen in the neighborhood
again, and all attempts to discover his
whereabouts were fruitless.
Burns in the mean time, seemed to be
full of indignation at his brother’s dis
appearance, and did not hesitate to
point to the clergyman as one who
could explain if he would what had be
come of him. He was often heard to
say:
“I will make the parbon produce my
brother, even if he has to dig him out of
the earth. - '
He went at length before a magis
trate, and taking with him three persons
as witnesses, declai ed his suspicion
that the clergyman had murdered his
brother. The witnesses testified that
they had overheard a quarrel between
the pastor and his servant, in the
course of which the elergyman cried
out:
“I will beat thee, dog, until thou liest
dead at my feet.”
Then they heard the sound of blows,
and had twice seen a spade swing above
the hedge, though they could not see in
whose hand it was. Another witness
deposed that while passing the garden
of the pastor, late in the evening of the
next day, he had heard the sound of one
digging, and, on looking over the hedge,
had seen the pastor, in his usual green
dressing gown and a white night cap.
The magistrate could no longer disre
gard the accusation, and gave orders
that the garden be searched in the pres
ence of the accuser and accused. When
they had dug to a little depth came
earth which had evidently not been dis
turbed, and the pastor, turned to his ac
cuser saying:
“Slanderer, wbat have you got for
your pains ?”
But on digging under a heap of rub
ish to the horror and consternation of
the clergyman and his friends, the miss
ing mans bat was found ; soon after a
human arm appeared, ar.d before long
the whole body, the face disfigured be
yond recognition by blows, evidently
given by a flat instrument, the clothes,
even to the shirt with the man’s name
on it, and a leaden ring in one of the
ears were immediately identified. The
clergyman could only protest his inn©
cence.
“Appearances,” said he, “are against
me. Surely this must be the work of
satan and his ministers. Take me to
prison. In solitude and chains I will
, await what God in his wisdom may de-
ESTABLISHED 1859*
ELtiERTOX, GEORGIA, XOV’R 24. 1875.
Upon the trial, in addition to the tea
timony given above, two new witnesses
declared that on the evening in question
they saw a man in a green coat and
wuite night cap come out of the wood
with a large sack upon his back, cross
the road, and disappeared at the hedge
of the pastor's garden. Upon hearing
this testimony, the minister fainted. Af
ter recovering his senses he talked like
this:
“From my childhood I have ever been
impatient of contradiction and ready
with a blow. When but a lad I slew in
anger a dog which one day ate my din
ner that I had left in his way. Asa
student, in a broil with a German youth,
I gave him a wound that endangered
his life. I will now confess the crime,
which no doubt, I have committed, but
of which, nevertheless, I am not fully
conscious. Three or four times in my
life that I know of it has happened to
me to walk in my sleep. The last time,
about nine years ago. I was the next day
to preach a funeral sermon over the re
mains of a man who had met with a
fearful death. I was at a loss for a text,
when the words of a wise man among
the ancient Greeks suddenly occurred
to me, “call no man happy until he is
in his grave,” and I then remembered
that the same thoughts, in well nigh the
same terms, was to be met with in the
Apocrypha. I sought and sought, but
could not find them, and being tired
went to bed and soon fell asleep.—
Greatly did I marvel to find on my
writing desk the next morning, written
in large letters ,on a piece of paper:
“Let no man be deemed happy until his
end cometh. [Syrach xi, 34]” But
not this alone, I found likewise a whole
sermon written out in my own band
writing, which could have been compos
ed by no other than myself. Mark now,
when the witness testified this morning
my sleep-walking very suddenly flashed
across me, and I likewise called tq
/uind> that in tiie moaning after fchatf
n*ght, I had been surprised to Ttif "
dressing gown lying upon the*floor in
stead of hanging on a chair by the side
of my bed, where I always hang it. The
unhappy victim of mj,, unbridled passion
must Lav<| fallen down dead in the wood,
and I must, in taf* sleep wi Iking have
followed film thitbor • Yas./ jttmrfry*?
have mercy, so it was 1 So it must have
been.”
The clergyman, upon his own confess
ion, was condemned to death. Before
his decapit tion he warned the specta
tors of the danger of yielding to anger,
and acknowledged „the justice of the
penalty he was about to receive. Then
he took off his coat, bound his eyes
with a handkerchief, and knelt for the
blow. In another moment the sword
severed his head from the body.
Twenty-one years had passed; Burns,
the accuser, was d< ad, as were modt of
those who had taken part in the trial.
An old beggar applied to the minister of
the next parish for alms ; he proved tr
be the very man who was supposed to
have been murdered and buried by Sor
en Ovist! Upon being questioned he
stated that after the quarrel with the
pastor he told his brother of what had
happened, after midnight they had dis
interred a suicide buried where the
roads met, dressed him in clothes worn
by himself, gathered his face with a
spade, taken the pastor’s cap and dress
[ ing gown from his house, and thus
J clothed, one oTthem • had carried the
body into the clergyman's garden.—
That done, Burns had said to his broth
er:
“And now you go your way. Here is
a purse with a hundred dollars, make
for the frontier, take another name,
and never set foot on Danish soil
j again, as you would answer it with your
life.”
The man did as he was told, enlisted
for a soldier, lost a limb, and returned
to his native parish a mere wreck of his
former self. Ignorant of his brother’s
designs, and of all the subsequent pro
ceedings, he relatedj his part in the
transaction without reserve.
This is the only instance known, I be
, lieve, in which evidence has convinced
i an innocent prisoner that he was guilty
! of the crime of which he was accused.
Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, received a
public welcome at Toledo, recently, on
his remarks he said that during his tra
vels among the Oriental churches he had
learned many things which tended to re
move his old prejudices against them.
One of the very remarkable things he dis
covered was among many eastern church
es were traces of Episcopal worship ; a
liturgy, and bishops who traced their de
scent away back into the days of the
apostles. But now the spirit has passed
out of the church, the life of Christ
passed away, and the worshipers fallen
into a very depressed spiritual condi
tion, and much degenerated in their
worship. What struck him most forci
bly was that while other churches are
doing very much, and accomplishing
great good in the introduction of anew
religious spirit, the Episcopal church is
doing nothing.
The first Masonic Lodge has just been
organised in Jerusalem. Its Master is
an A merican, its Past Master is an Eng
lishman, its Senior Warden is a German,
its Junior Warden is a native, its Treas
urer is a Turk, its Secretary is a French
man, its Senior Deacon is a Persian, and
its Junior Deacon another Turk. Among
its members are Christians, Mahometans
and Jews. Freemasonry is evidently
cosmopolitan.
JIM WOLE.
How he Tailed to Grab the Tom Oats, But
Spoiled a Candy Full.
I knew by the sympathetic glow up
on his bald head—l kaew by the
thoughtful look upon his face—l knew
by the emotion il flush upon the straw
berry on the end of the old free liver’s
nose, that Simon Wheeler’s memory was
busy with the olden times. And so I
prepared to leave, because all these were
reminiscences—but I was too slow ; he
got the start of me As near as I can
recollect, the infliction was couched in
the following language:
“We were all boys then and didn’t
care for nothing, and didn’t have no
trouble, and didn t worry about nothing
only to shirk school and keep up a re
vivin’ state of devilment all the time.—
This yah Jim Wolf I was talking ’bout
was the ’prentice, and he was the best
hearted feller, he was, and the most for
givin’ an onselfish I ever see—well,
there couldn’t be a more buliier boy
than he was, take him how you would,
and sorry enough I was when I saw him
for the last time.
Me and Henry was always pestering
him and plastering horse bills on his
back and putting bumble bees in his
bed, and so on, and sometimes we’d
crowd in his bunk with him notwith
standing his growling, and then we’d
let on to get mad and fight across him,
so as to keep him stirred up like. He
was nineteen, he was, and long, and
lank, and bashful, and we was fifteen
and sixteen, and tolerably lazy and
worthless.
So, that night you know, when my
sister Mary gave a candy-pullin’, they
started us on to bed early, so as the
company folks could have full swing,
and we run in on Jim to have some
fun.
Our winder looked out onto the roof
of the ell, and about ten o’clock a pair
pi old tom cats got to rarin’ and charg
ha round it and carrying ®n like sin.—
Tfcere was four inches of snow on the
roof, and it was frozen so that there was
a right smart crust of ice on it, and the
moon was shining bright, and we could
see, them cats like daylight. First they
other, you know, and bow up their
backs and push up their tails and swell
around and spit, and then all of a sud
den the grey cat he’d snatch a handful
of fur out of the yaller cat's ham, and
goin around Jlike a button on a barn
door. But the yaller cat was game, and
he’d come and clinch, and the way they
would gouge, and bite and howl, and
the way they’d make the fur fly, was
powerful.
Well, Jim, he got disgusted with the
row, and ’lowed he’d climb out there
and shake him ofiFn that roof. He had
not reely no notion of doin’ it, likely,
but we everlastin’ly dogged him, and
bully-ragged him, and lowed he’d allers
bragged how he wouldn’t take a dare,
and so on, till bimeby be highsted up
the winder, and 10, and behold you, he
went—went exzactly as he was, nothing
on but a shirt, and it was short, but you
ought to see him. You ought to see
him creepin’ over that ice, and diggin’
his toe hails and finger nails in to keep
from slippin’; and ’bove all, you ought
to seen that shirt-tail flappin’ in the
wind, and them long shanks of his glis
tenih’ in the moon-light.
Them company folks was down there
under the eaves, and the whole squad of
’em under the onery shed of old Wash
in ton Bower vines—all settin’ round
about two dozen sassers of hot candy,
which they’d sot in the snow to cool.—
And they was talkin’ and laughin’ lively;
but bless you they didn t know nothin
’bout th® panorama that was goin’ on
over their heads.
Well, Jim, he went a-sneakin’ up un
beknowns to them tom cats—they was a
switchin’ their tails and yow-yowin' and
threatenin’ to clinch, you know, and not
payin’ no attention —he went a sneakin’
right up to the comb of the roof, till he
was in a foot’n half of ’em, and then all
of a sudden he made a grab for the yal
ler cat! —But by gosh he missed fire and
slipped his holt and his heels flew up
and he flopped on his back, and shot
offn that roof like a dart!—went a
slasbin’ and a crashin’ dewn thro’ them
old rusty vines, and landed right in the
center of them comp’ny people !—sot
down like a yearthquake in them two
dozen sassers of red hot candy, and let
off a howl that was hark f’m the tomb !
Them gals—well, they looked, you know.
They see he wasn’t dressed for C Jinp’ny,
and so they left. All done in a second
—it was just one little war-whoop and
a whish! of their dresses, and blame
the wench of ’em was in sight any
where!
Jim he was a sight. He was gormed
with ihat bilin’ hot molasses candy
clean down to his heels, and had more
busted sassers hangin’ to him than if he
was an Injun princess—and he come a
prancin' up stairs just a-whoopin’ and
cussin’, and every jump he gave he shed
some china and every squirm he fetched
be dropped some candy !
And blistered! Why bless your soul,
that poor cretur couldn’t reely set down
comfortable for as much as four weeks.”
[Mark Twain.
—. —♦ o*
An exchange says: “Barnum pays his
new balloonist S2OO perday.” And even
with such a good salary that man is lia
ble to “go up.”
—
Pay up and have a clear conscience.
Vol. IV.-No. 30.
AN AFFECTING CASE.
The many freaks of physical infirmity
show nothing stronger than instantane
ous blindness or deafness, or their im
mediate cure. But cases of the kind are
well authenticated. The following is
told in a Nashville paper :
We recently beard a remarkable and
touching story of $ little boy, the son of
a gentleman in an adjoining county.—
His age is twelve or thirteen. He is an
interesting and promising lad. One day
during the past winter he failed to rise
as early as usual. At length his father
went into his room where he lay, and
asked him why he did not get up. He
said it seemed dark yet, and he was
waiting for daylight. His father retir
ed, but the boy not making his appear
ance for some time, he returned and said
a second time :
“My son, why don’t you get up V’
“Father, is it daylight?” he asked.
“Yes, long ago.”
“Then, father, the little fellow said, “I
am blind.”
And so it was. His sight Was gone.
In a short time his father took him to
Nashville, to get the benefit of the medi
cal profession there, but none of the
physicians could do anything for him,
and happily tried no experiments on his
eyes. Some ladies in a family of his
father’s acquaintances sought to cheer
him in his affliction, and one night pro
posed to take him to the opera, that he
might hear the music and singing. He
went and was delighted.
In the course of the performonce. all
at once he leaped up, threw his arms
around his father’s neck and screamed
in ecstacy:
“Oh, Father, I can see!”
His sight had instantly returned. And
since then he has retained it in full vig
or, except that under excitement there
is sometimes a dimness of vision. The
case is one of a remarkable and singular
character.
A RAILROAD DIFFICULTY ADJUSTED.
When Col. Fisher took charge of the
Georgia portion of the Air Line railroad
as Receiver, some differences sprang up
between him and Col. Buford, Receiver
of .the North and South Carolina por
-wi. and so wide did the,
broach become, that; vxn. jjuAbru
ened to withdraw his trains from the
Georgia division. Indeed, steps were
taken to do this, by the building of a
turn-table by him just this side of the
Georgia line. Col. Fisher accordingly
built one just within his border, near
the South Carolina line, and there was a
prospect that the road would be cut in
two at that point.
Some time ago, however, a meeting at
which the two receivers, Gen. H. Haupt,
R. Y. McAden, Esq., Col. J. B. Peck
and perhaps others were present, was
held in Col. Buford’s room at the Cen
tral Hotel in this city, when all the dif
ferences were adjusted, and an under
standing ai rived at by which the road
will be conducted as usual. Col. L. P.
Grant, the former receiver of the Geor
gia portion, and Col. Buford, always
conducted their respective divisions har
moniously, and it is to be hoped that
the same amicable relations will exist in
future between the new and old receiv
ers.—[Charlotte Observer.
Nearly all the horses in Columbus
have the epizootic in a mild form. We
see in the papers that the speediest way
to cure the epizootic and make him thor
oughly happy is to give him onions. In
proof thereof, a Portsmouth horse is
mentioned which had a severe attack of
the disease and his owner placed a half
dozen onions in the trough with his reg
ular food. The horse tackled three of
the onions immediately, and by the time
he had swallowed them began to congh,
sneeze and prance about, appearing quite
indignant and refusing to touch the re
maining onions. For full five minutes
this continued, and there was a cured
horse. He has not had a cough, sneeze
or any symptom of the epizootic, but
he did have the courage to eat the on
ions remaining in the trough the next day
after the cure.
The result in Mississippi gives anoth
er State to the Democrats if the next
Presidential election should be thrown
into the next House of Representatives.
Twenty votes are required to elect in
that body, and the Democrats, with Mis
sissippi and Oregon—in the latter of
which they have just elected a Congress
man—have twenty-four, four more than
is sufficient fo*’ a choice. This is grati
fying, because it is by no means certain
that the next election will not go to the
House. The last Mississippi delegation
stood five Republicans to one Democrat.
It is now entirely Democratic, a change
of eleven votes. This v/ill increase the
Democratic majority in the House to
eighty-three ®r eighty four—almost two
to one.
Pat Your Small Debts —One of the
great evils of the times is the general
omission and indifference of people to
pay small debts, say from fifty eents to
five and ten dollars, as if these sums
were nothing to withhold from them
they are due, whether printer, mechan
ic, merchant or farmer. The mighty
ocean and great rivers are formed by
rain drops, as cents are the fractional
part of dollars and millions. The larger
number of dealings among men are in
small debts, and are equally, if not of
more importance than the liquidation of
large sums to those whose means may
be sufficient to afford indulgence.
THE BO A- 00 N STRIOTOR.
“Jolifl, undo his tail 1 There, ladies
and gentleman, is the wonderful hoar
constrictor, so called because he con
structs many pleasing images with his
serpentine form The constrictor is a
long animal, as you will perceive, and is
very long lived. He lives U hundred
years or more if he don't die be/effehand.
He is of the worm species, and worms
himself along the ground with legs. He
is capable of climbing high trees, in
which he ift fond of concealing himself in
the branches thereof, that he may im
pose upon the benighted traveler or oth
er beast whereby to satisfy his hunger.
“He licks his vittals before be cats
’em, and then swallows 'em head first.
The sea serpent is much larger, yet I
think the constrictor could lick him,
for he is full of pluck. Prick him,
Jo n, and make him hiss. When he hiss
es he is very angry, and cares very lit
tle what becomes of him. This is be
cause he is very weak minded and has a
small head. He has however, a large
belly, and when it is full he is very
good natured. He has a very lovely
skin, but ie very snlky and lazy, and he
is so spiteful it is a mercy he can’t talk.
I have took care of this mighty snake for
three years, but he shows no gratitude,
he is a glutton, and likes to stuff,him
self and then go to sleep If John
didn’t stir him—stir him again, John—
he would never wake up except to his
vittals.
“I don't know as I ought to blame
him though, because nature is always
the same everywhere, 'vhether in Host
ing or the rude valleys of Bengal. I
have an uncle living in Bengal, and a
brother who has never been there. My
uncle tells me he has seen ten thousand
boa-constrictors frolicking in the forest,
anil eating each other up. My brother
does not believe it, but then ho has not
seen it. My uncle may be depended
upon. He sold rum and sugar to the
injens. He is the only one who ever gave
liquor to the boa-constrictor. This is
the one ho gave it to. He first got it
tight, and then boxe 1 him up. The boa
will never forgive him.”
A Remarkable Professional Success.—
Among the notable professional men of
this country who have achieved extraor
dinary success, is Dr It. V. Pierce, Buf
falo, N. Y. The prominence which he
has attained has been reached through
strictly legitimate means, and, eo far,
therefore, he deserves the enviable repu
tation which he enjoys. His great suc
cess is the result of a thorough and care
ful preparation for his calling, and ex
tensive reading during a long and unu
sually large practice, which have enabled
him to gain high commendation, even
from his professional brethren. Devot
ing his attention to certain specialties of
the science he has so carefully investi
gated, he has been rewarded in a re.
edies’iu'efiCriberr bymfik’liave, it IS* saMt,’
been adopted and prescribed by physi
cians in their private practice. His pam
phlets and larger works have been re
ceived as uneful contributions to medi
cal knowledge. He has recently added
another, and perhaps more important
work, because of more general applica
tion, to the list of his published writ
ings. This book, entitled “The People's
Common Sense Medical Adviser,” is de
signed to enter into general circulation.
Dr. Pierce has received acknowledg
ments and honors from many sources,
and especially scientific degrees from
two of the first medical institutions in
the land.
Sam Smith, the driver of the Sonora
and Milton stage, which was stopped by
three highwaymen near Milton, Tuesday,
the 12th ult., delivered the following el
oquent address upon the occasion: —
“Gentlemen, I have I een a driver, boy
and man, going on twenty years. I nev
er ditched a stage or growled at a pas
senger, and, gentlemen, I assure you I
have had some of the toughest outsid
ers that ever left Boston for a week's
chassez in Yosemite. I have met gen
tlemen of your kind before, and I defy
any of them to come forward and say
that I ever treated them with contempt.
On the other hand it has been my aim
to act toward highway—excuse me, gen
tlemen, I mean road agents—with that
listinguished consideration due their
standing in society. Hence, you will
believe when I say that I have nothing
for you this morning. Sorry, gentle
men, but the truth of the matter is,
Wells, Fargo & Co.’s boxes are young
poorhouses on this rout® just now, and
you couldn’t squeeze a picayune out of
them to save your sweet necks from the
gallows.” ,
Everlasting Fence Posts.— A corres
pondent of the Western Rural says:
“I discovered many years ago that
wood could b® made to last longer than
iron in the ground, but thought the pro
cess so simple and inexpensive that it
was not worth while making any stir
about it. I would as soon have poplar,
basswood or quaking ash as any other
kind of timber, for fence posts I have
taken out basswood posts after having
been set seven years that were as sound
when taken up as when they were first
put in the ground. Time and weather
seems to have no eff ct on them. The
posts can be prepared for less than two
cents apiece. For the benefit of others
I will giv® you the recipe: Take boiled
linseed oil and stir it in pulverized char
coal to the consistency of paint. Put a
coat of over the timber, and there is not
a man that will live to see it rotton.”
Lord Truro, a British peer, has been
robbed of jewelry to the value of £lO,-
000 It appears that the jewelry was
packed up in a large wicker basket, cov
ered with black patent leather, and ad
dressed to him at the hotel d’Europe at
Brusels. The basket was then placed
in a cart which, driven by a trustworthy
servant for a short time in the borough,
and afterwards proceeded from London
towards Woolwich by the old Kent road.
On the driver nearing Woolwich he was
startled on looking around to find that
the basket with its centents had been ex
tracted from the vehicle.
