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A SKELETON IS A CLOSET.
How m. itlexioan Woaai Preserved lh«
Kemaini of her Hoo.
J. il. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1877,
ESTABLISHED 1850.
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at our risk.
Msecd,
Affairs in Georgia,
i , ee Iribune Btates the fact that
m a hundred Colonels in Georgia.
Ike occasion to dispute the fact.
county a rousing majority will
Bt up for a convention.
1,." remains of Judge Peeples were oar-
,. i .,vth, where they were buried on
ritd to 1 Jlr -
Saturday
•jljg commencement at
Co“ e »
will begin on
Griffin Female
Sunday, Juno 24, and
jnjjtiuGC
(iii Wednesday, which will be com-
Qf^cemeui
day.
Nl Dcy, au aged Degress, died ou Thursday
. t (I* iffin. She was over one hundred
mgut w «•
' lucre were 25,902 tons of guano sold in
y.-y* this year, against 17,000 tons in
[•r J. L. Cheney, a prominent druggist
died last Friday from the ef-
of a spider bite. Dr. Cheney was
-ixtv-fonr years of age, and was a native of
ionroe county. His many friends iu this
jj 0Ll join his neighbors in expressing their
xarei at his loss.
Xhe Twelfth Senatorial District has made
the following nominations for the Constitu-
piiiii Convention: Stewart county—J. L.
iv-,' r r!v, Isaac W. Stokes; Quitman—T. L.
livrry; Webster—D. B. Harrell. The
•vket is a good one, and the Twelfth Dis-
tr.ct will give a formidable vote in favor of
the convention.
The Home Tribune says: “We learn that
L ,. of oar enterprising merchants proposes
;u erec t a free drinking fountain for
pedestrians in front of his store/’ There
H nothing like enterprise on the question
of I’ood, cool water.
From the Rome Tri Weekly Courier wo get
the following fact : Two young ladies
while swinging fell and sustained se
vere injuries. Miss Katie Wood had her
ni-tit arm broken, and Miss Ada Coleman
sustained injuries which, though 6enous,
are hoped to be not fatal.
The Mobile and Girard Railroad for the
ni al yoir just closed,has paid the interest on
•ts bonded debt, $57,000, to the Central
Byroad Company. The latter organization
reduced the rate of interest from tight to
foarper cent.
Thi* is neighborly : “In Tattnall county
mli ;; the out crop is lo be harvested they
give an‘oat reaping.’ The fatted calf is
m - (i, t-very body and his neighbor come
ii their cradles, and it is astonishing
Lo v e oon a ten-acre field of oats will molt
> fore ;i half dozen cradles, swung by a half
i/.vi] stalwart men. In that way the whole
c jmunity have their oats reaped. It is a
good custom.” i
lease of stabbing occurred in Haralson
mty. Mr. Burt Green, formerly of Oar-
r i co.i’uty, was the victim. The Carroll
oj'ih'y limes says: “It seems that this
• ang man had been paying some attention
i.jGreen's daughter, and on the evening in
question, while walking home with her, she
to:d him that her father disliked for him
to visit her, wnereupon he told her to go on
Home, and he would wait aud see her
lather as became along, as he was on behind
*.h*m. In the meantime several of the
. iiii.c mans friends had got with him,
aid wLen Mr. G. came along they raised a
diil/'ulty wuh him, during which he was
stabbed’ by the young man who nad been
vi.-iting his daughter.
The Griffin News pays: “The corn and
cotton crops are eufi'ering very much from
the drought that is now upon us, but doubt
less the vvheat crop is all the better from it.
It has been near four weeks einoe we have
had any rain; the dust in the city is almost
unbearable, and we truly hope that we may
have a storm.”
The Hinesville Gazette says: “It is hard to
convince seme people that wool growing will
pay in this low county. The idea has be
come prevalent that sheep can only thrive
on the hill-side. This is a mistake; there
ar some as fine sheep in this county as cau
in Midale Georgia. Mr. W. A.
Kennedy this spring sheared one two year
old eat aLd obtained nine and a half
pounds of wool.”
The Lumpkin Independent says: “The
"heat crops are now receiving the attention
f the thrifty farmer and the busy cradles
ring the grainfor the threslrer. For-
varicrops have been housed, and with a
few uioiv days of clear weather it will be
.7 Larvented. The reports from all sec
tions represent the wheat crop as very fine,
Mid a good yield is now assured.”
The Griffin Sun says : “We learn that a
few nights since the dwelling of Enquire
Sinford, of Paulding county, was fired into
with ! urderous intent, endangering the
••te / himself and wife. Three of the Tib-
wN have bt*eu arrested on circumstantial
evidence and bound over to court.”
The Ocala Banner says : “Notwithstand
ing the severe frosts of last winter, our
orange men are more sanguine than ever
over the successful cultivation of tkiB crop.
Many new converts are added to the list.
The last is Mr. \Y. C. Jeffords, who has re
cently purchased forty acres of orange land
on the Withlacoochee river from Mr. A. L.
Eichelberger.”
The following resolutions by the Board
of Commissioners of Escambia have been
adopted: “Whereas, the best interests of the
county (f Escambia demand a return to a
cash basis at the earliest practicable moment;
and whereas, there is now outstanding a
large amount of county scrip, much of
which, owing to the financial condition of
the county, was issued at less than forty
per cent, of its face value. Therefore, be
it Resolved, That a special election shall
be held on the 2d day of July, 1877, at which
time the people will be called upon tq vote
upon the question of an issue of not more
than twelve thousaud dollars of bonds to
bear interest at the rate of six per cent, per
annum, payable annually—said bonds to be
used only iu funding all outstanding county
indebtedness. And be it further Besotted,
That said bonds shall be issued in denomi
nations of one hundred dollars, and the
coupons of said bonds shall be paid annually,
and the principal at the expiration of ten
yearB from the date of issue, at the office of
the County Treasurer of Escambia county,
Florida.”
We take this from the Jacksonville Sun :
“The little schooner Frank E. Stone, com
manded by Captain Fozzard, which has
been plying between this port and Indian
river, was wrecked ou Mosquito Inlet bar
during a gale on Monday last. The Stone
had on board five gentlemen passengers aud
was bound to this place from Indian river
with no cargo. On Monday a heavy gale
sprang up from the northeast, and in order
to escape the fury of the wind and waves
and prevent being driven ashore, the Cap
tain made for Mosquito Inlet, but just as
the schooner reached the bar, at about
four p. m., a heavy sea struck her
on her port Bide, staving in her planking
and throwing Her on her beam ends.
Three of the passengers were in the
cabin at the time, Wm. Ritenbrinck, Jesse
L. Sykes, and J. P. Black, and they suc
ceeded in reaching the deck just as the ves
sel went over; the first two only to be
washed overboard by a heavy sea, and seen
no more. Another passenger, whose name
is uuknown, was also thrown into the sea,
and no trace of him found afterwards. The
Captain and Mr. Menley, the mate, and tho
two remaining passengers, J. P. Biack, aud
his brother, ft. A. Black, clung to the ropes
and chains attached to the wreck, and after
drifting for several hours, were finally
picked up and taken ashore by a pilot boat.
Everything on board was lost, the men
saving only such clothiDg as they
chanced to have on at tho time of
the disaster. The Captain lost two hun
dred dollars in ca3k, which he had in
the cabin. The schooner is a total wreck.
The bodies of tho three drowned men had
not been recovered up to Wednesday. Mr.
ltifenbriuck, one of the men lost, was from
Indianapolis, Ind., and had been in tbe
btato only about a year, and lived in this
county, near Riverside. He leaves a family.
Mr. Sykes and his friend, both of whom
were drowned, were from Columbia, North
Carolina, and owned property iu the vicin
ity of Indian river. They were ou their
way to their former home when the sid ac
cident occurred. Mr. J. P. Black, one of
the rescued, arrived in this city yesterday,
comiog overland via Crescent City. His
brother and the Captain and mate remained
at Mosqnito Inlet to continue the search for
the bodies of the drowned men.”
Thirty-three days of dry weather has^de
stroyed vegetation in Escambia county. The
Herald says : “To-dav is the thirty-third
day of dry weather. Vegetation everywhere
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
AddrcMf by J. Randolph Tucker Before
the Law Department ol the Univer
sity of Jlaryland.
THE ARLINGTON ESTATE.
The Suit to Oust the Government—His
tory of Arlington—The Law of the
Case—A Strong View.
Florida Affairs.
In Fcrnandina there are a regular pack of
freves. The Methodist Episcopal Church
^ 'Utli), on Broome street, was entered
•Hue: time between Sunday and Wednesday
last. The missionary contribution box was
broken open, aud the contents, supposed to
Lave been less than one dollar, taken out.
fcv. Mr. Bird, the pastor, fortunately had
removed four dollars and seventeen cents
fe rn it on tho Saturday previous.
Iq Key West tomatoes sell for twenty-five
cents per bushel.
A me ling of the citizens of St. Augustine
*iil be held next Tuesday night for the pur
s’ 0 - f taking into consideration the cele
bration of tho Fourth of July.
Ifecambia county wants a substantial
“brick jail.” The Pensacola Herald says
-he present jail is a “veritable hell.”
that
Hy tbe laws of Florida, any man who has
lOS * an arm or a leg, no matter how or wkeD,
rfrom what cause, cannot be taxed for any
business he may enter into ; always, except
‘ n Z the liquor business. This is an excel-
*ut law, and one that should nevpr be taken
from tbe statute books, as it gives poor,
mfimed persons a chance, at least, to earn
i heir daily bread, after a fashion, and thus
SvCQ re independence.
iu Alachua county, in the vicinity of Ar-
^onda, melons are being got ready for
shipment, and the indication is that they
he sold to advantage,
ifec&mbia has grown the first ripe peaches.
r - Albert Riera, of Pensacola, .picked
ur % e ri P e peaches ou the 20th May.
ihe fig cr op 0 f Florida promises gdod re-
The fig trees are heavily Jadened
'•'h fruit. The Jacksonville Sun says: “It
a most singular thing that some
eQ trgetic man has not gone into the busi-
Df8 3 of packing this fruit for Northern
Sie* would pay undoubtedly for all
Thell
8 Pent in bo laudable an undertaking.
St. Augustine Journal S2ys: “The
lay washed away a portion
w ‘ ‘* ie , lrac fe and bed of the St. John’s Bail-
-1 about one mile from the St. Augustine
of the road, from which point the
k DRera . aQ( i mai l were brought to this
* * omnibus, ou the day mentioned.”
John^P 0 ^ 8, ^ anntr : “Deputy Sheriff
tu k " rowa ^turned last Wednesday with
r obhp/ w ^° lir oke into the Ocala House and
He u,' ffenrlemen their olotbiog.
*iUo» as up at Jacksonville. The
€r fe( j ^ P art of the clothing were recov-
*“ e Deputy deserves praise for the
fiance and determination he showed in
terms? 8 jV Though a colored mau he is de-
Xhie n ° guilty man escape.'”
tgrifni. ■ Tribune says: “Experienced
titatft j r,8ts ^ho have prospected the
4e C i,uS !f 8 S0, Mhern and eastern parts have
tr? ; n a West Florida is the best coun-
fealthf!? any re8 P ect 8—;among them being
ia 8ect Ulne8 8, comparative exemption from
v -ui< nt t? ’ avera K° fertility of lands, 3on-
^utreR J® mn,u kication with the principal
from ei 01 tra de, and the continuous revenue
honev 4 JrU °* timljer aQ d lumber, making
*o*t;„v more Pitiful over here than in
1 other sections.”
„ suffering, and the parched herbage, gar
dens and general uudergrowth presents a
bad outlook for a summer supply of edibles
for man and beast. A good shower of rain
would be now a generous visitation of Provi
dence.”
Tarty Architecture.
The rumors of the construction of a
new political party are becoming
are becoming so
numerous and persistent that they claim
their passing share of attention. We have
it from the National Republican that all
this coming and going for the past few
weeks at Washington means something.
It states, on wnat it styles reliable in
formation, that “a well organized move
ment is on foot looking to the formation
of a new party, to be composed of the
conservative and moderate men of both
the Democratic and Republican parties,
under the name of the National Union
party,” and that a conference is to be
held at New York at an early day as a
preliminary step. Now that is all non
sense on the face of it; for the Demo
cratic party is an eminently “conserva
tive and moderate” organization already,
as any party must bo that draws its
privileges and life from the Constitution;
besides which, no party could be set
up that would supersede it as a
“National Union party.” The Republi
can, however, recalls the fact that during
the past six weeks “some of the most
prominent men from the East, West and
South have visited Washington, repre
senting every diversity of public opinion.”
It says they did not all come in a body,
but separately, aDd “ without any flurry
or excitement, quietly saw the Presidet
and members of his Cabinet. Of course
the President has nothing to do with it
personally; oh, no! There will be no
steps taken by his direction ; certainly
not! Everything is to be based on his
announced policy; to be sure ! After the
New York meeting, we are informed that
it is proposed to hold other meetings m
Southern and Western cities, “ and the
Old Line Whigs of the South are to be
specially invited in tho movement.”
On the other hand, Blaine is booked as
the champion of “the Simon Pure Re
publican party,” and he will throw him
self with all his energy and fervor into
the assault on the administration. Ike
administration is to be attacked vigor
ously with the charge that it has aban
doned the ancient faith and attempted
the deliberate destruction of the Repub
lican party. Blaine is to wage war on the
same basis as last summer. Mortons
recent letter is credited to his alarm at the
increasing popularity of Blaine, his fear
being that the latter will become the
party idol in the North. And Hayes and
his advisers, keeping the Ohio election
ever in mind, are industriously striving
to raise a new issue. They have before
them for consideration the plan of a war
with Mexico, aud tbe organization of a
Know-Nothing party. The military ring
is said to favor the former, whiffi for the
latter a complete selection of officers has
already been made. Now all this signifies
that there are just three persons who
are playing for the political stakes,
not comprehending that in doing
so they are but following the order of na
ture in assisting the disintegration of the
very party they are ambitious personally
to lead. Morton at the West will do very
well to pit against Blaine at the East ;
and Hayes will perform effective service
as the miller who is to grind the grist for
both It is not likely that these three
will ever meet again precisely within the
same oar tv lines. Each may ba able to
dZaTwfth his “thirds,” while Butler
stands with uplifted hands, uttering benp^
tural sarcasm, and Banks bobs around
and asks where he shall go. lakmg the
efforts conjointly, they promise to d.
good work in pulling the oM house down
low that it is practically tenantless But
the bare idea of hiring Democrats to take
part in the enterprise under the guidance
of the administration is preposterous. If
the new party depends on them for its
life it wifi be a long time in coming to
birth.—Boston Post.
The annual commencement exercises of
the Law Department of the University of
Maryland took place at the Academy of
Music, in Baltimore, on Friday last,
which was crowded with spectators.
There were twenty-one graduates. The
Hon. J. Ilandolph Tucker, M. C., of Vir
ginia, delivered the oration.
After treating of the profession and
origin of lf.w, Mr. Tucker said it would
be inexcusable if he failed to refer to a
branch of legal science which is peculiar
ly American—constitutional law. This
w„s the science of the relation between
the government and tbe citizen, in respect
to which America claims to have made
important improvements. Constitutions,
or the manner of organizing the social
force, is left for man’s contrivance. The
“powers that be” are two-fold, organic
and derivative. The sovereign author
ity of the people is organic ; that of the
government derivative. The former is
paramount, the latter subordinate. The
one is creative, the other created. The
one delegates, the other is delegated.
The one is principal, tho other the agent.
This principle rejects wholly the idea
that any government is entitled to servile
obfdience, or to any obedience where it
self violates the law of its creation or sets
at naught the charter of its authority.
Referring to our Federal system of gov
ernment, Mr. Tucker said:
It is true that despite all the cautious
ness of our fathers the Federal system
has failed to realize all the hopes of its
founders. The spirit of centralism has
seduced men at the mad bidding of fa
natical sentiment to extend the domain
of Federal power to the detriment of the
reserved rights of the State, and this
brought about results upon which the
true friend of liberty must look with
despondency almost akin to despair. You
have seen in this city the venerable Chief
Justice, wearing the ermine of the highest
court of the land, defied by the military
when he threw about the persons of your
citizens the sacred writ of habeas corpus.
You have seen your State Legislature in
vaded, its members imprisoned, aDd its
organization broken up. You have seen
the governments of eleven States super
seded and military governments estab
lished over them by authority of
Congress. You have seen the. writ
of habeas corpus suspended by order
of tbe President in time of civil war,
and the same thing done by Congress in
time of peace. You have seen the ques
tion of State government determined by
the President, and the whole State power
placed at the mercy of his decree. You
have seen the soldiery standing at the
doors of the capitol as the arbiters of
their legislative organization, and the
civil subordinated to the military power;
and these things have been done in the
teeth of constitutional prohibitions and
limitations, and in violation of .the sacred
institutional principles of the British-
American liberty. But, gentlemen, I have
not despaired. I will pot despair of this
republic of Confederated Commonwealths.
They created the Union by their concur
rent compact, and they can save it by
their concurrent action. If we are faith
ful to the institutions of our freedom; if
the legal mind wiil stand true to the
transmitted traditions of our an
cient liberties during these ten
centuries to the fundamental prin
ciples on which our Federative sys-
ern rests, and maintaining the complete
autonomy of the States as an essential
and permanent part of our organic law,
and .steering wisely between the national
centralism of power on the one hand and
any tendency of the State to deny need
ful authority to the Federal Government
on the other, we shall check corruption
by limiting power, prevent decay by
vitalizing the organic principles of the
Constitution, and purify the administra
tion by controlling patronage. \V e will
save the republic, and what is better, will
strengthen and perpetuate our liberties.
But if centralism shall eat out the power
of the State as the independent creators
of the Constitution, as the parties to tbe
Federal compact, and as essential factors
in the government, then the days of the
republic will be numbered, and free citi
zens of these States will become the sub
jects of an imperial despotism. But I
forbear to say more on this tempting
subject.
Ruin at the Gamino
Table.—The
^Ti/flleming amounted
to about°eigtit thousand dollars^ Urough
when arrested at Larammhe had^only
addition
pecuiuiiuuB va.
to about eight thousand d
when arrested at Laramie --- .
sixtv-five dollars in his pocket, whicu ne
irisswtfasww‘-f?
he look everjlhiog of value e
his wife robbing her to supply his losses
at gambling, an3 sold his *»■*■*£*
two different officers on Angel Island
His highspirited wife was prostrated
ihe Mow. She had one interview with
him after be was taken over to tbe island,
aid thin had to be carried into Ms cell
on a cot,--So» Francisco Pest.
Minnesota’s Default.—In an article
on the default of the State of Minnesota
upon certain bonds, the New York Tri
bune say6: “Minnesota in 1858 issued
$2,275,000 State bonds to four land grant
railroad companies, to aid in the construc
tion of railways, and received in return
from the companies an equal number of
their first mortgage bonds. The com
panies failed. The State immediately
foreclosed the mortgages, and thereby
acquired title to their property, which
embraced several million : cres of la.ud
and two hundred and forty miles of graded
railroad ready for tho superstructure.
The State then defaulted upon the inter
est of the $2,275,000 bonds, the proceeds
of which had been used by the companies
in creating the very property which the
State had by its foreclosure proceedings
acquired, and by'concurrent resolutions
of her Legislature and by a direct vote of
the people of the State fairly repudiated
them.”
Sitting Bull rises like old Animus, or,
more dreadful still, like the grasshopper
This native plains, “all in the merry
0f h *h Mav ” But the conditions are
month of MsY 0 and his
reversed out there, tor ^ ^ thgt
681 ‘he th/reason why the latter left the
, ma >; ^r bffith and came East to grow
tfp with the'oountry. Few Orleans Tunes.
Au extraordinary discovery of ancient
coins tas just been made on the Mon-
trane estate, a few miles from Cupar Fife,
in Scotland, the property of Mr. Allan
Gilmour. In draining a portion of land
‘the laborers struck on what appeared to
be a boulder, but subsequently was dis
covered to be a pot. A stone was firmly
wedged into its mouth, and on being re
moved it was found that the vessel was
filled with coins, the total number of
pieces being nine thousand. Most of
them have the appearance of a well worn
sixpence, a few are of the size of a florin,
though not quite so thick, and a small
number are about the size of a shilling.
They are all silver, and, so far as has
been ascertained, of the twelfth, thir
teenth and fourteenth centuries.. It is
supposed they were used in the reigns of
Robert II., Robert III. and David IL,
and have lain in the earth more than
three hundred years.
A most extraordinary scoundrel, eighty
years old, has been deteoted in Baltimore,
Vt. His crowning achievement was to
poison two hogs belonging to a neighbor.
But it appears thjt during a long and ill
spent life he has been killing cattle,
burning buildings, and destroying prop
erty genera’ly. Only last year this ven
erable wretch was convicted of girdling
fruit trees, and escaped State prison by
forfeiting his bonds. He has cost the
State of Vermont, his family, and the
community generally, more than any
other man in it; and the number of his
offenses and trials during the last twenty
years is large enough to be remarkable.
However, he is eighty years old, and will
soon suffer au arrest which will be final,
aud go through a trial from which there
wiil be no appeal.
The Romance of a Rich Youn&Man.—
There is a young man carrying a hod at
Rohr’s new building on First street who
has a romantic history. He is about
twenty-two years of age, and the only
child of very'wealthy parents, who reside
m New Haven, Conn. About three years
ago, becoming angry with his father, he
left home and reached this city, where
he has since resided, engaged in various
kinds of manual Ithir. At regular in
tervals remittances and clothing from his
parents are sent to him, but he persis-
tently refuses to touch them, notwitli-
standing the most urgent entreaties. He
also refuses to return home, preferring to
make his own living.—Maysmlle (Oal.)
Appeal.
It has already been announced that
Gen. G. W. C. Lee. eldest son of the late
Gen. R. E. Lee, has brought suit for
ejecting the government from the posses
sion of the Arlington estate. The suit is
expected to be tried at the present term
of the court in Alexandria county, Va.
The DOtice was served about a month
ago upon Lieut. R. F. Strong, command
ing Fort Whipple, Frederick Kauffman,
Superintendent of the National Cemetery,
and one hundred aud sixty-two colored
persons who are living on the estate.
General George Washington, by his
will, bequeathed Arlington to George
Washington Parke Custis and his heirs
forever. Custis was the adopted son of
General Washington. He died in 1855,
and by his will left the property to his
daughter and only child, Mary Randolph
Lee, who became the wife of Robert E.
Lee, and in addition, the use and benefit
of the Arlington House and estate, con
taining about eleven hundred acres; Ms
horses and carriages, furniture, pictures
and plate, during the term of her natural
life. After her death he provided that
all the property should go to her eldest
son, George Washington Custis Lee, and
to his heirs forever. He further enjoined
that the said eldest grandson should take
his name and arms. Mrs. Lee, his daugh
ter, was to be allowed the privilege of di
viding her father’s plate among her other
children; but Custis directed that the
Mount Vernon plate and every article
he possessed which formerly belong
ed to General Washington and all
that came from Mount Vernon should
go to George Washington Custis Lee and
* descend from him entire to his latest
posterity. In his will he also directed
the emancipation of all his slaves at the
end of five years from his death, which
took place in October, 1857. When Rob
ert E. Lee joined the South he took these
slaves with him, but, at the time speci
fied, he manumitted every one of them
and sent them beyond the Confedeiate
lines North. Shortly before her death
Mrs. Lee and her son endeavored to make
a compromise with the government, and
offered to surrender her title and that of
her heirs for the sum of $300,000. Her
petition gave rise to an angry debate in
the Senate, in which the old bitterness of
the late conflict was revived. The Re
publican leaders turned the whole matter
to party account, and of course nothing
was done. Mrs. Lee died in 1873, and
her son, who brings the present suit of
ejectment, again offered to compromise.
He presented a memorial to Congress,
which sets forth the principal law points
in the case. After presenting a copy of
the will of Parke Custis the petition sets
forth, “Upon the construction of the said
will your petitioner is advised that he
took an estate in remainder after the life
estate of his mother. Whether it was
technically a vested or a contingent re
mainder upon the true construction of
the will may be a question of doubt. If
the remainder be contingent your pe
titioner had no estate in the property
until the death of the life tenant. If it
was a vested remainder he had no estate
in possession until that event.” The
memorial then states how the United
States obtained possession of the prop
erty. In September, 1803, three tax
commissioners for the insurrectionary
district of Virginia fixed the sum of
$92 07 as the amount of tax due and
payable to the United States upon
the Arlington estate, which was
valued on the land books of Virginia for
the year 1860 at $34,100. For the non-
payment of the tax the estate became for
feited td the United States, and the Com
missioners advertised it for sale. The
sale took place on the 11th of January,
1864, when, no person biddingan amount
equal to the taxes then accrued, and the
estate having been selected, under the di
rection of the government and in pursuance
of President Lincoln’s proclamation of
January 6, 1864, for government use, for
war, military, charitable and educational
purposes, the Commissioners bid it in for
the sum of $26,S00.
The petitioner next recites (and this
will undoubtedly be the line of argument
of the plaintiff for the recovery) that he
is advised that all the objections which
an original owner can urge against the
title of any purchaser at a tax sale apply
with increased force against the title of
the United States as a pureba-er at a 6ale
for taxes, made under its own authority
and by its own commissioners. The
laws of August 6, 1861, and June 7, 1862,
are referred to, and it is urged that
neither can affefct the question. The as -
sessment was made against the property
of a married woman, and the reasons ou
which the justification of the law of
1862 is based (the relation of the State
of Virginia to the general government)
cannot, it is held, apply to a law for the
collection of taxes. The petitioner
maintains that if the sale was not in every
respect constitutionally and legally made
he has been deprived of his property
without due proceR3 of law, which is a
violation of the constitution.
Another aspect of the case is given as
follows: “The land was assessed, taxed
and sold as the property of the life ten
ant. Your petitioner’s title in remainder
was not noticed. The sale could by the
terms of the law only be prevented by the
owner’s paying the tax. The tax sale
certificate recites the property as owned
by Mary A. R. Lee. If your petitioner’s
title in remainder was contingent it was
no estate in the land and he was in no
sense an owner. If it was vested, it was
an estate not in possession, but in ex
pectancy, and the land was taxed as that
of the life tenant. If offered for sale he
was not au owner; therefore, within tho
meauing of the Jaw, he could not tender
the tax. His right not being taxed, could
not be forfeited for its non-payment. The
sale could only pass, at the utmost, tho
title of the life tenant, and not the re
mainder. The title passed by the sale
has expired, and your petitioner’s re
mainder now vests in possession, as in
title. This view is the more patent, as
no assessment was ever made against
your petitioner; no tax was imposed on
or demanded of him, and no property or
estate of his was ever advertised for sale
or sold to the government.”
Tar and Broom Torn.
[From the New York World.]
To the frequent journalist of an ambi
tious mind there are few things so dis
heartening as the reflection that he is
seeing of the labor of his soul and being
abundantly dissatisfied; that he is sowing
his intellectual seed upon granite quarries
much less remunerative than those at
Cape Ann, which General Bntler has but
to tickle with a recommendation to see
them laugh in a contract. Such journals
should console themselves. As the poet
has beautifully expressed it:
“ Surejnever yet was line of newspaper
That was not read by some cull him or her.”
If any man denies this we commend to
him. the experience of the editor of the
Ogle County (Ill.) Pioneer, a journalist
whose decline and fall have not hitherto
been satisfactorily accounted for. It was
somewhat over eleven years ago that this
The President’s Sliding Scale.
If the friends of Mr. Hayes are to be
believed, he must be a pretty slippery
customer. The tale which Packard has
told about the method by which he was
I deprived of the Governorship of Louis
iana, the deception which was practised
upon the confiding Garfield, the doubie-
i dealing by which Pitkin suffered, the
i mysterious trick by means of which Boker
| resigned without knowing it—all these
things prove that the President has great
| skill in political chicanery. His declara
tions and practioe in regard to civil ser
vice reform are neat specimens of his
ability in making promises and avoiding
their performance. His pledges of
non-partisanship in appointments and
immunity from removal during good
behavior were made and repeated
until the people actually put
faith in them; but he was not long
unhappy editor cut out from an exchange I in power before he modified his original
The Reveeend Wife Poisoneb.—A let
ter from Ashton, Illinois, dated May 25th,
says: “Elder J. H. McGee, the alleged
Ashton wife poisoner, made an attempt
to slip the halter and catch his daughter.
He first tells her to bring him some dish -
es, consisting of a plate, cup and saucer,
also spoon, knife and fork. He uses the
knife for the purpose of escape, by saw
ing away the bars of the cell, but failed
in this. He next procures a pair of scis
sors and attempts digging out through
the closet. The third, and it seems the
last chance, is to get the daughter, Jen
nie, to sign a confession. He first writes
one, and tells her to copy it and sign her
own name to it. ‘By so doing it will
help me out, and they can’t hurt you.’
She, being young and inexperienced,
takes the advice, and copies the confes
sion written by hjr father and signs her
name. He then attempts to use the in
strument to clear himself, but when the
trial came on she was informed of the full
enormity, aud the position in wMch she
was placing herself. Her young heart
failed her, and she said : ‘Father wrote
this and to d me to copy and then sign
my name, but I did not poison my mi.' ”
When the body of a drowned man was
found in the water in Boston, the uncle
of one William Spofford was convinced
that it was that of his nephew William,
who had left for a visit to Peterboro’,
New Hampshire. Ou examination of the
remains Mr. Spofford was pretty sure that
they were these of his relative. There
was a brierwood pipe found in the pocket
of the deceased, and divers persons
thought it was the pipe of the.nephew.
Upon the strength of this he might have
had a funeral, with the Spoffords attend
ing as mourners for the lost William cf
that name, and been buried in the family
lot, only there came a dispatch, from Pe
terboro’ saying that he was alive and well,
and with the genuine and original brier-
wood pipe in his possession.
a joke, stolen and not succulent. Unhap
pily upon the obverse of the excerpt was
printed the following:
“commercial intelligence.
“Wilmington, January 17.—Tar is in
active and drooping, and from 371 to 50c.
lower.
“Okeechobee, Ga., January 17.—The
broom com crop is a failure,and a rise in
price is expected.”
It need hardly be said that the intelli
gent compositor chose the lesser of two
evils and, ignoring tbe joke, set np tbe
“Commercial Intelligence.” To the
readers of the Pioneer next day this made
comparatively little difference. The
market report was, as “Grace Green
wood” would say, “sprightly” when com
pared with the ordinary witticisms of the
journal. The editor swore a hasty swear,
but then reflected that this interesting
item after all would give the Ogle County
Pioneer an air of metropolitan dignity,
and that it had, further, a saving grace in
the way of the cost of composition. For
years, therefore, the item about tar and
broom corn stood in the local columns of
the Ogle County Pioneer like the shadow
of a great rock in a thirsty land. ChurcU
sociables might come and county con
ventions go, but tar and broom corn were
printed there forever.
“Alike to it was tide aud time,”
for, no matter how favorable were the
early and the latter rain upon the tender
broom corn elsewhere, the crop at Okee
chobee, Ga., was a perpetual failure, and
a rise in the price of that commodity was
eternally expected. And tar, alas ! was
never jolly tar. It remained inactive and
droopiDg, and neither European wars nor
rumors of European wars nor any eight
to seven interpretation of the laws of
trade sufficed to prevent it from a perpe
tual decline of from 371 cents to 50 cents
from its invariable price. Even tbe date
line fell into somuiferous and conserva
tive stereotypy. That enchanted land
wherein it always seemed afternoon was
outdone, for whether i; were the
Fourth of July or Hallowe’en in all
other columns of the Ogle County
Pioneer, in the, commercial paragraph it
was ever the 17th of January. Time
passed on in Ogle County, Ill. Boys who
had Deen recorded as prize winners at its
institutes grew up, ran for the Legis
lature, or ran away with the funds
of savings banks. Middle aged citi
zens died one after another, each
leaving one complicated will and sev
eral complicated families; or, having
devoured the estate of the widow and
the fatherless in respectable living, re
canted in public and died in the full pdor
of sanclity. Still the Ogle County
Pioneer continued the beacon of broom
earn, the test and terminus of tar. At
last the types became jaded and spent
with toil. The naked eye, unaided
by the microscope, could not tell
whether it was January 17 or June 87
whereof it was question. In due—or
rather undue—time this fact became pat
ent even unto the editor of the Ogle
County Pioneer, and in a fatal moment
he bade his foreman (who was also his
intelligent compositor, and was, likewise,
himself) “kill” that item of “Commercial
Intelligence.” Unhappy man! had he—
but let us not anticipate.
The Ogle County Pioneer went to press
on the usual Tuesday. It enlightened the
public, made tyrants tremble upon their
thrones and was circulated among the
foremost residents of Ogle County on
Wednesday. Late on Thursday its editor
heard murmurs of the ooming storm.
His friends fell off from him, and rallied
him about the absence of quotations of
tar and broom corn from his otherwise
interesting and cosmopolitan sheet. He
laughed, and offered an explanation which
they (who better knew the temperof Ogle
County, III.,) received with icy polite
ness. On Friday the storm burst. Sub
scriber after subscriber wrote to say that
for years he had tolerated the Ogle Coun
ty Pioneer iu his family merely because of
its valuable market reports affecting tar
and broom corn; these removed, the Ogle
County Pioneer was for him an achffig
void. Delegations from farmers' clubs
and granges called on the editor, viewed
his course with “alarm and indignation,*
and declared him to be the emissary of
bloated broom corn monopolists and of
tyrannical tar holders. Prayer was of
fered for him with spiteful zeal in the
Ogle County First Baptist, Bethel Con
gregational, Reformed Methodist and
Apostolic Coalition-Presbyterian churches
His children were socially ostracized, and
their mud pies were shunned by
their mates as if they had been
prepared by Mrs. Sherman or Lu
crezia Borgia. Finally the editor, driven
to despair, drowned himself in an affluent
of the Pecatonica riter, which waters the
smiling plains and’ grocery liquors of
Ogle County, Ill., an hour after tbe
Pioneer had gone to press, thus recklessly
securing a monopoly of the report of the
tragedy—“holocaust" we believe it was
called—to the Ogle County Orthotpor, a
peculiarly reptile contemporary.
The moral of this 'ower-true tale is
much clearer than city milk. If we have
by our humble efforts induced the editor
of one exchange to press forward with
renewed zeai towards the goal of—that is
to say—in point of fact—the goal—onr
highest ambition will have been realized
our most arduous labor repaid Adieu!
Murderous Mutineers.—The United
States Consul at Havre reports a most
terrible and unwarrantable mutiny on the
part of the crew of the American brig C.
C. Sweeny, of Harrington, Me., as having
occurred on that vessel on the 16th of
May, a few hours after that vessel left the
port of Havre.. It appears that four of
six ol the men refused to obey the orders
of the mate, Henry Harris, made an
attack upon him with revolvers, and
killed him Instantly. They then at
tempted the assassination of Captain
Cole, the master, and the second mate,
who escaped by barricading themselves
in the Captains cabin. Through the
energy and courage of the cook, steward
and two of the men who were loyal to the
officers, the vessel was got back to Havre.
Upon visiting the vessel with the Chief of
Police, the Consul found the body of the
mate mutilated with pistol ballets. Tbe
mutineers were placed in irons and at
once sent to prison, the witnesses remain
ing on board under police guard awaiting
the action of the French authorities, who
claim jurisdiction over the case, as it is
charged by the French pilot, who was on
board at the time of the mutiny, thit the
mutineers fired upon him.
It is now argued that it is unnecessary
to kill broken legged horses, and a case in
point is stated: Twelve weeks ago the
nigh hind leg was broken of Mr. Wil
liams’ valuable and favorite mare, in
Utica, by a kick from another horse. The
fracture was half way between the fet
lock and the gambrel joints, and was
complete). A veterinary surgeon under
took to set the leg. A canvas sling was
arranged and the mare suspended in it in
such a way that she could occasionally
rest upon her uninjured limbs. The
fractured leg was then set, bound with
hickory and leather splints, with a heavy
leather boot outside of all. The mare
did well, and never missed a meal. After
three weeks a plaster of Paris bandage
was substituted, and in seven weeks
“Nellie” was walking around the stable.
There was no sign of the fracture, and it
is thought that she wiU keep her 2:40
gait.
opinions so far as to say that a man who
had held a Federal office for eight years
should be considered as entitled to no
further government patronage. TMs
rule is simply the old one for the distri
bution of spoils every four years modified
by doubling the length of the office
holder’s term. It is merely the old theory
of rotation with a new application. Such
a principle is directly opposed to the so-
called reform contemplated by such men
as Schurz and Eaton, which aims at erect
ing the office holders of the country into
a permanent class, with life tennres, and
modelling the civil service of the Repub
lic after the systems of bureaucracy
in vogue in the Old World, where
political aristocracy is the natural
result of social aristocracy. * As many of
the hast places under the government
are in the possession of men who have
held them throughout both terms of Gen
eral Grant, and not a few are occupied
by old appointees of Lincoln, the Presi
dent probably thought that his eight-year
rule would put all the plunder at his dis
posal which he would require in carrying
on his political scheme for a change of
base: but it seems he was mistaken, and
a new modification of his views on tho
subject of the proper duration of an
official’s term of public service has been
announced. If the Washington corre-
sp indent of the Evening Post is to ba be-
’ aved—and he sometimes deviates into
truth—Mr. Hayes now asserts that
foreign Ministers and Consuls ought not
to be allowed to serve abroad more than
four years. At the end of that time
they should, in his opinion, be willing
to return to their own country, and he
is determined that none of the gentleman
sent on diplomatic or commercial service
by General Grant shall be exposed beyond
the period of forty-eight months to tbe
b andishments of principalities aud pow-
i rs in Europe or elsewhere. His reasons
for this sapient conclusion are not given,
but they may be imagined. We have had
some representatives abroad who became
so enamored of the institutions and cus
toms of other peoples that they acquired a
contempt for the institutions and cus
toms of America. They grew old in Italy
or England or Holland, and their children
were born and bred in those countries,
and unfitted for republican life. They
became so accustomed to courts that they
lost the full stature of American citizen
ship and were dwarfed into mere flunkeys.
With the example of such unfortunate
men before him Mr. Hayes is determined
to rescue all their associates or successors
from danger. He probably thinks that it
will be unsafe to expose even a native of
Ohio for a period longer than wiil suffice
to give him a taste of foreign life with
out obliterating the savor of Cincinnati
pork and whisky. How sad it would be
to nave the gushing Pennsylvania poet
return to us from Russia a confirmed
consumer of tallow candles, or the saintly
Maynard retire from Constantinople with
caravan of Circassian aud Georgian
damsels in his train, or the simple mind
ed Pierrepont quit London with all his
aspirates as well as his aspirations min
gled in hopeless confusion ! Perish tho
thought! Let these and the other titanic
sons of the New World, when
wearied with their contaot with
old social habits and old political
systems, come back to touch their native
earth and be renewed and strengthened
with republican vigor. Mr. Hayes
doubtless looks at the matter in this ligh!;
but we suppose the civil service reformers
will not fail to impress upon him the fact
that the longer a man serves in a foreign
country, masters its customs, language
and policy, the fitter he will be to repre
sent his government there. After they
wrestle with Mm for a while in prayerful
argument and find that his moral jacket
has, so to speak, slipped over his 6houl
ders, and that they are exhausted and
beaten, they may possibly have enough of
vigor left to say something to the purpose
concerning their pious bnt oily antago
nist.—-V. T. World.
Raid on One Thousand Bats-Sight
Alarm of Young Ladies.
[From the Hartford Coarant]
The large double building on the north
side of M street, between Third and
Fourth, owned byE. Torrey and occupied
as a boarding house, has of late appeared
to be the headquarters of a vast number
of bats, which managed to get in between
the celling and roof l hrongh small aper
tures alongside the water-spout. The
vampires became a great nuisance, and
Mr. Torrey concluded to make an effort
to get rid of them. With this end in
view, he procured a five-gallon coal-oil
can, and arranged it something like a
rat-trap, so that the bats might
enter it readily, but could not
get out. A number of smalt holes
were also punohed in the can to admit
light. The trap was on Thursday placed
in such a position as to completely cover
the opening through which the animals
passed in and out of the building. The
result was that a short time after dark it
was filled with the little pests, who made
a great stratcMng and squealing. The
remainder of the bats, finding their usual
place of exit stopped up, looked about
for another, and discovered a small hole
iu the plastering of the ceiling. Through
this hole they made their way in great
numbers, and found themselves prisoners
in the sleeping apartment of two young
women. The latter, aroused from their
slumber by a mysterious noise, aud feel
ing their faces fanned by invisible wings,
became alarmed and sprang from the
bed, but their feet came down upon a
mass of squirming, stratching, and biting
somethings, while other somethings
struck them in the face and on the
head and body, chattering viciously, and
causing a disagreeably cold and damp
feeling. It was not a pleasant situation
by any means, ana the girls opened the
door and hastened into tbe hall, calling
for assistance, closely followed by their
tormentors. Other occupants of the
house, alarmed at the noise, opened their
doors to see what the trouble was, but
were glad to close them again to keep out
the bats. Some of the boarders desired
to go down stairs, but every step was a
bat-roost, and they had to get out upon
the balconies. Afier much hard work,
which lasted nearly until daylight, the
animals were driven or swept from the
upper story down into the basement,
where they were gathered into a
heap, so far as possible, and killed by the
application of boiling water. Those thus
killed numbered, by actual count, seven
hundred and sixty, and the girls subse
quently killed four more in their room.
The trap was placed in a washtub filled
with water and its occupants drowned.
There being considerable curiosity to
ascertain the number of bats a five-gallon
measure could hold, they were counted,
and amounted to two hundred and twenty-
eight. The slain, all told, filled four
buckets. Yesterday, the opening in the
ceiling in the girls’ apartment was
plastered up, and the trap was again set.
Last evening it was well filled, judging
from the noise, and it was estimated that
there was a “right smart chance” of bats
about that place.
A New Republican Platform.
We learn that various prominent lead
ers of the Republican party in Ohio have
been engaged in the preparation of a new
platform, by means of which they hope
to rescue their party and themselves from
the overflowing scourge which now
threatens them with destruction. We
have procured a copy of this project from
which so great a miracle is hoped, aid
here it is;
PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES.
1. Favoring an amendment to the Na
tional Constitution forbidding appropria
tions of pablic money, property, or credit
for the benefit of any institution under
sectarian control.
2. Taxation of all property, excepting
public property and cemeteries.
3. All church property to be held by
trustee*, composed of members of ■ tho
congregation, society or institution using
the property.
4. Compulsory education. Favoring a
law requiring all children to be educated,
either in private or public schools.
5. Favoring an amendment to the Na
tional Constitution requiring all new vo
tors, after the adoption of the amend
ment, to be able to read and write in
Engtish before exercising the elective
franchise.
6. An effective registration law, for
the purpose of preserving the parity of
the ballot box.
7. The passage of a iaw to prevent
threats or intimidation of any kind, ec
clesiastical or otherwise, for the purpose
of influencing parents or guardians
against sending their children to the pub
lie schools.
8. The passage of a law to prevent
threats or intimidation of any Kind, ec
clesiastical or otherwise, for the purpose
of inflaencing the voter in exercising his
right of elective franchise.
We regret to remark that there is noth
ing in all this that is new; every one of
these propositions we haw heard of be
fore ; and most of them, we are sorry to
say, as they are stated here, have a dog
matic color and an ecclesiastical squint
that are exceedingly objectionable in
tMngs political.
The most remarkable points to this
programme are, first, the absence of that
proposition to inflate the currency and
make the silver coin of the United
States a legal tender, which is now to
greatly in favor with the Ohio Republi
cans, and especially with Mr. Hayes; and
secondly, the manifestation of a desire to
disfranchise the negroes of the South by
a constitutional amendment making read
ing and writing a universal qualification
of voters.
Mr. Hayes and his administration have
already turned their backs on the old
principles of the Republican party by
abandoning the negro to his fate; and
it is not surprising to see such an indi
cation of their disposition to deprive the
black man of the elective franchise.—N.
T. Sun.
A Plea for Reconciliation.
Gen. Lew Wallace delivered the Deco
ration Day address at New Albany, Ind.,
and it was a noble plea for reconciliation
and peace. The keynote of the whole is
in the following extract: “I move a call
for a convention of the citizen soldiers of
the North aud South, participants in the
late war, to consider how a full, hearty,
perfected reconciliation can ba effected
between the sections. A few weeks ago
I met an excellent Confederate soldier to
the ante.chamber of the White House.
We talked over a battle in which we had
been engaged on our respective sides. As
we were separating he held to my hand
and said: ‘Sir, if they would refer the
business to ns, we soldiers could soon set
tie it.’ The speaker was Gen. John
B. Gordon, now a Senator from
Georgia. My motion is his thought
put in practical form. Will the
Confederates meet us in convention ? If
they do not, we have demonstrated our
good will towards them, and, if the day of
calamity come again, the reference will
serve us well. If they do meet us—and
I believe they will—and we resolve our
selves into some permanent association
as I believe we can—who shall refuse our
txample ? If we fought each other iu
the field, can forget our enmity, and of
our battles even make bonds of renewed
fraternity, the civilian and stay-at-home
will not cry out against us—he cannot for
shame. Accord is impossible, some one
wiil say— impossible for want of a basis.
You obseive, my friends, how carefully,
considering my limited time, I strove to
define and interpret what, in need
of a better name, I call the Americanism
Understand now why I dwell upon it.
offer it as a ground of reconciliation. I
it broad enough ? I said it was a belief
that the whole country belongs to us and
each of us, and that whatever we chance
to be in the country no man has better
rights than another, or more of them
Broad enough! Why the world could
stand upon it as a united community.
Ladies and gentlemen, what I wish
that the men who scarred the continent
with trench and canonshot, and flecked it
with cemeteries like this, may meet iu
reunion, if bnt once, under the eyes of
the nation. I think it a rule in wMch
you may trust—nobody will find the way
to peace as certainly as a veteran . weary
of war.”
A little girl has just exhibited great
heroism in Pictou, N. S. She was only
seven years old, and was with her brother,
aged five years, locked up by her mother
on going out. Some female wearing ap
parel took fire from a lamp. Alice, the
little girl, knew that the key was left iu
the door outside. She formed the ter
rible project of jumping from the third
story window, and thus releasing her
brother. Lowering herself by the arms
as tar as possible, she dropped a distance
of thirty-five feet. Her clothes buoyed
her up and she was not much injured
But when she rushed np to the chamber
door and opened it her brother was gone.
He too had crawled out of the window to
see where his sister had gone, and fell to
the ground. He was somewhat scratched
but not seriously injured. An arm and
leg of tho daring girl are hurt, but not
seriously.
ah Sin’s Game of Poker.-—The Silver
State tells as follows how a Nevada Chi
naman was inducted into one of the
mysteries of American civilization
There is an angry Chinaman in town to
day. He engaged in a friendly game of
draw last evening with a white man who
had been studying “Schenck’s Poker
Rules.’’ They played for an hour or two
wi^iont any apparent advantage on either
side. The Chinaman got four kings and
an ace, and according to his barbaric
ideas of the game, that was an invincible
hand. He saw his adversary’s bets and
kept raising him until there was $410 in
coin to the pot, and he had no more to
bet. He then called, throwing down four
kings and an ace, and was horrified when
his adversary showed four aces and
king, and took the money. He does not
yet seem to understand why there were
so many aces and kings in the deck.
General Dick Taylor, ex-Confederate
officer, son of the ex-President, and
resident of London, plays a good game
of whist. Onoe, they say, when the King
of Deumark was visiting his daughter,
she sent for “Prince Dick” to make up
a game witb her father. Taylor won
largely, and laaghmgiy said to the King:
“Your Majesty cannot find fault; I am
only getting back those sound dues my
country paid Denmark for so many
years.”
Misa Had.ock, of Newport, Vt., met to
the street a man who had circulated
derogatory stories about htr. She had
prepared herself for tho occasion. First,
she took pepper from a pocket and threw
it in his eyes; secondly, she took a raw-
hide from her bustle and struck him
several times with it; thirdly, she took a
rotten egg from a hand bag and smashed
it in his face.
Here is a simple verse, written by Sir
Matthew Hale, Chief Justice of England,
two hundred years ago :
A Sabbath well spent,
Brirgs a week of content.
And health of the joys of to-morrow ;
Bnt a Sabbath profaned,
Whate’er may be gained,
Is a snre forerunner of sorrow.”
[From the San Antonio Express.]
A little flurry of excitement was occa
sioned yesterday morning by a report
made by a hackman that in the honse of
Mexican woman named Jesusa Reseu-
dez, west of the San Pedro, a human
skeleton was concealed. The hackman
reported to Deputy Marshal Shardien
that he opened a trunk belonging to this
woman, in which he found a small box
carefully wrapped with a piece of oil
cloth, and the fact exciting his curiosity
he opened the box and found it to contain
hnrnan bones. Shardien proceeded to the
house in question and made inquiry con
cerning the matter, but the woman denied
any knowledge of the reported skeleton.
Her manner, however, convinced the
officer that she was deceiving him, and a
search of the premises was instituted.
This search resulted in the finding of the
skeleton, the bones being placed in a bag,
all jumbled together, and hung up to a
closet in the house.
The woman was brought before
Justice Houston in the afternoon, and an
examination of the affair was made. The
woman’s statement to the Justice was
straightforward and reasonably accounted
for the “skeleton to the closet,” yet a
singular story withal. She said she lived
here about seven years ago, and had a
boy about fifteen years of age. She
moved to Victoria about that time and
shortly afterwards her boy, who was in
poor health while here, died. The re
mains were buried near Victoria, and
some time afterwards—about three years
ago, we understand—the graveyard
where the remains were interred fell
into private hands, and the owner
announced that he intended to cultivate
the ground and that parties who
had friends buried there could remove
their remains; otherwise the graves would
be obliterated. The woman's affection
for her dead boy was too strong to lose
trace of his reBting-place, and she had all
that was 1* ft of him, the skeleton, ex
humed. She was very poor, had no money
with which to purchase a coffin and have
the bones buried in any graveyard, so she
kept them in a box awai.ing the time
when she could have them interred
according to her desire. She learned
their hiding place in the trunk had been
discovered, and fearing they would be
taken from her, she placed them in the
bag and hung them in the closet where
they were found.
A physician of this city who had at
tended the woman’s boy while here, cor
roborated that part of the story, and de
clared that some hairs still adhering to
the skull were of the same color as the
hair of the sick boy. As no charge of a
criminal nature could be sustained against
the woman she was discharged, and tbe
bones of her boy will now, no doubt, find
a final resting place.
As various and conflicting reports grew
out of the affair, it excited no little com
ment on the streets.
Mr. Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, is the
trading politician of the Fraudulent Ad
ministration. He manages its jobbing
business, secures its influence in getting
a Senatorship for himself, and proourea
from it offices for the men who are
serviceable to him. An office hunter
needs nothing more than Stanley Mat
thews’ recommendation to Hayes; and
Hayes will give anybody an office who
can show him the recommendation of
Stanley Matthews. Consequently, the
demands upon Stanley Matthews are very
numerous and very pressing; and, as he
cannot keep everybody and everything iu
the front part of his head all the time, he
sometimes gets into a state of confusion.
Two office hunters from Ohio appeared
before Hayes the other day. It turned out
that both of the‘m were applicants for the
same office—Supervising Inspector of
Steamboats at Pittsburg. One of
them, who had helped Stanley Matthews
into the Senate, delivered Hayes his let
ter of recommendation, which bore the
familiar signature of Stanley Matthews j
and thereupon the other applicant, a Cin
cinnati ward politician useful to Stanley
Matthews, gave Hayes his letter of re
commendation, which also bore the fami
liar signature of Stanley Matthews.
Hayes was in a fix. What could he do
but refer both of the men back to Stanley
Matthews ? and what could Stanley Mat
thews do but tell Hayes he must somehow
find offices for both of them ? They
could not both be Supervising Inspectors
of steamboats at Pittsburg; but perhaps
one could supervise and the other inspect,
while both drew their salaries. The in
fluence and jobbery of Stanley Matthews
are not confined to Ohio ; and everybody
in the United States who wants an office
from Hayes will find it advantageous to
make the application through Stanley
Matthews.—N. Y. Sun.
Attempt to Assassinate a Corres
pondent.—Mr. J. B. Stiltsou, the Salt
Lake City correspondent of the New
York Herald, telegraphs that there has
been two attempts made to assassinate
him in the Mormon capital. Last Satur
day evening, whilst he was being driven
through the streets of the city, a man
who had posted himself fired at the cor
respondent, fortunately without result.
This attempt at assassination was supple
mented by another on Thursday. Whilst
Mr. Stillson was aloue in his room a man
made his appearance with a paper in his
left hand, which he extended, saying,
“Here is an affidavit which interests
you.” Stillson reached, for the paper,
when the man pulled a short knife and
struck him a heavy blow on his left hreast
and then hurried away. Unprepared for
snch an attempt, Stillson was knocked
behind a table. The point of the knife
passed through a postal card and two
photographs on pasteboard and glanced
off from a suspender buckle againBt
which it struck, and which is badly bent
by the blow. The only injury is a sore
rib. The same man is supposed to be
guilty of tfle two attempts, but the cause
of them is not known.
To a paper which urges in favor of the
reissue of silver dollars, that silver has
intrinsic value, the New York Post re
plies: “So lead has intrinsic value. Why
not declare for a. leaden currency ?” but
is apparently stupidly blind to the fact
that its argument is quite as pertinent
against the case of gold as of silver. But
the question now is not whether silver
is a good material to make money of, only
whether the mintB should be instructed
to coin what is already authorized by the
Constitution and the law. The silver
dollar is to-day an unlimited legal tender,
and if there were any of the old issue in
existence the tender of a thousand of
them in payment of a debt would be a
lawful tender of payment which the
courts would be compelled to recognize.
Silver has never been demonetized to
this country, and consequently those who
favor silver money are not asking the
remonetization of silver money, but the
reissue of silver dollars.—<Sf. Louis Re
publican.
Whittemore, ex cadet-peddler and lar
cenous carpet-bag legislator of South
Carolina, has marched without empedi-
ment into the bowels of Massachusetts,
and Massachusetts feels very sick. But
Massachussets ought not be discouraged.
She got rid of Whittemore onee before,
when he had been caught swindling, by
making him chaplain of a regiment dur
ing the war. Why not ordain him now
as a fnissionary, and let him steal awhile
away to Kemper county or any other
place where a good article of preaching is
needed and where there isn’t much lying
around that be could pick up ?—Neic
York Tri/mne.
Finley Verity, a young marrried man of
Roslyn, L. L, some days ago eloped with
his wife’s sister and has not since been
heard of. The companion of his flight is
only fourteen years old.
Shot by His Own Spring-Gun.—A
fatal and very distressing accident occur
red near New Market, Pa., yesterday
morning, resulting in the instant death
of a young man named William Roller,
son of Samuel Roller, Esq. It appears
young Roller had seta spring-gun for the
punishment of some thief who had been
depredating on the property. Going to
the barn and forgetting for the moment
the deadly device attached to the door,
he thoughtlessly pushed it open and was
instantly made a victim to his own in
genuity, a heavy charge of shot being
lodged in his bowels.
A Sad Suicide.—The suicide of Hon.
Elisha Watson, of Wakefield, R. I, Thurs
day morning, has caused a profound sen
sation in that State, where he was uni
versally respected. His body was found
in a salt pond, where the water is only
four feet deep. Mr. Watson was about
sixty-five years of age. In early life he
was an active politician, and represented
North Kingston for many years to both
houses of the Legislature. He was quite
wealthy. Tbe cause of the rash act is a
1 mystery to his immediate friends. He
] was one of the foremoat men in Wash-
I ington county, K. L