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SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1877
ESTABLISHED 1850.
This from the Quitman Reporter dis
cusses the sugar supply ol Brooks: “Mr. S.
J. Harrell informs us that he planted last
year 2,600 stalks of sngar cane on a little
less than three-fourths of an acre, from
which he made two barrels of sugar and
seven of Byrup, and saved 2,700 stalks for
seed this year, from which he feels confi
dent that he will make at least ten barrels
of syrup. Now, if there is any one who can
beat this, we would like to hear from them.
The fact is fast gaining ground that this
immediate section is the b‘-st and most reli
able country that there is in America, so
varied and important are its productions —
so healthful and delightful its climate—so
cheap its lauds, that it is astonishing that it
has been so long a sealed book to the out
side world.”
Affairs Hi Georgia.
Xhe number of arrests made in Augusta
during
the past month was ninety-six, of
*1 ich forty-three were white aud fifty-three
colored.
' There are thirty-one prisoners in jail in
ArU sta, ten whites and twenty-one colored.
Ipattam county man is manufacturing
iU L’’ soap. The corn shucks are fed to
. Ive as long as it will eat them, and the
j'. j d boded until it is saponified. No
, ase is us«-d in the process, and the soap is
^ itobr very good.
i tU* Academy for the Blind, situated at
m .,)!) there are now fifty inmates, and the
. jeo t of a pay pupil, including tuition,
r( ] fuel, lights, Ac.,' is only two hundred
1 twenty dollars per annum.
J [a c ■' -v‘luence of a large number of the
v cen Volunteers having recently been ab-
: on :i week’s excursion to Cumberland
i. ioil it is found that a sufficient number
.-•.njt leave their business to form a squad
w attend the Brunswick fair.
. Cobb county man sold five hundred
* ,iqd(1 j of honey in Atlanta last week for
ventv-fivo dollars. IIo says his bees al-
• -u support him, aud cause him no trouble
aa.l lit’le expense.
r-j. e iion. John C. Key, of Jasper county.
g hi - :i nominated its delogate to the Con-
. itutional Convention.
A cm respondent writes us from Gardi,
• ayne county, that small change is very
a . f . ri -,. and what little is in circulation is
, . uggeJ. He further states that the
u tuat neighborhood hoard up all the
. ver that passes into their hands.
On thi 1st instant Governor Colquitt ap
pointed Dr. John Rhea, of Atlanta, as No
; mv Public and ex-officio Justice of the
Peace of the 1,234:h district G. M., vice
Garlington, resigned.
The Dahlonega Signal reports a heavy
,* in the mountains, ner.r that place, last
8atarday week.
The mortuary report of th3 city of Au-
,r Q .vi ior the month shows forty-four inter
ment, of which twenty-five were colored
and nineteen whites.
\jr. J. W. Hewell has received the nomi-
uttiou for the Constitutional Convention
hum Chattahoochee county.
A negro named Austin Karris, being un
der arrest at Jesup on a charge of larceny,
■tteiypted to commit suicide by cnttiDg his
throat with a penknife. The knife being
toi&ll and dull did not accomp’ish the death
f the darkey. It is rather an unusual oc
currence, the attempted suicide of a negro.
);r. Albert Senter, an old and highly es-
• fcined citizen of Heard county, died on
Sunday last.
Goa 1 in large quantities is being shipped
- ’&;h over the State road.
The Atlanta Constitution expresses the
that in u few months the water works
difficulty will be fully removed by some
practical mo le of purifying the water.
Judge John L. Hopkins, who has been
coi'lined to his room, in Atlanta, for some
wc*■&> on account of serious illness is im
proving gradually, and it is now hoped that
he will recover sufficiently in a week or so
to lake a trip off somewhere for his health,
which is advised by his physician.
Judge James Jackson, of the Supreme
Court, is growing stronger gradually after
confinement to his bed for the past ten
days.
Iu Heard county rain has been badly
needed ior the past ferf weeks. The
corn and oats are suffering, and tho
gardens are beginning to die out.
Oh! for a rain, is the exclamation of nearly
every inhabitant.
The Griffiu Hews, of the 6ih, learns that
there was quite a heavy storm in Forsyth
jq Tuesday afternoon, during which the
warehouse was unroofed and three or four
frame buildings were blown down.
The wueat crop of Georgia may bo con-
-iD r* \ made. In the southern and middle
•vmiitiis a portion of it has already been
harvested, aud in the northern portion of
the State it has progressed so near maturity
without rust that little apprehension need
be entertained. The crop in nearly all parts
the State is represented to be fine, ex-
mug tho expectations of farmers. The
ily iking to be regretted is that more was
R planted. It is to be hoped that the
,/allent yield this year, at a time when
hr tuffs are so high, will encourage all
farci- i - to double their acreage in wheat
:trxt year, aud thus make us independent
J tii ■ Went for bread.
Father John, the pastor of the Catholic
-hurch at Columbus, has established a
Ha •.uitarian Society entitled the St.
cent de Paul, whoso purpose it is to fur
nish work for women out of employment,
without regard to denomination. The
i y has organized by the election of tho
"wing officers: L. J. Rafferty, President;
diehard Needham, It. Deighnan, R. Bran
ca, Directors; and George N. HartmauD,
^fctary.
Ui: tain W. D. Grant has declined the po
rtion of Water Works Commissioner, to
which he hau been elected by the Atlanta
Common Council.
in examination of all applicants for posi-
ions as teachers in tho public schools of
Atlanta will be held under the direction of
the » lug committee of the Board of
Education ou Saturday, 16;h instant, at,the
c hi-- of the Superintendent, 49 Washington
c’reet, commencing at 9 a. m.
Jlr. E. McMahon, a well known and highly
esteemed citizen of Gwinnett county, died
i&st Saturday morning at 5 o’clock. He was
•ixtv-three years of age and was a native of
South Carolina. Hie death was deeply re
gretted.
The Albany Advertiser is trying to stir up
sufficient enthusiasm in Southwestern Geor-
gl&! ' ; form a Southwest Georgia Fair As-
-a. It says: “In the expressive
•‘‘ 'k'uai'e of General McKaig, let all the
^uotie. in our section pull toget'uer and or-
ganiztj without delay an Agricultural and
alect;>i.ii ca i Association to develop tho re-
3, 'Urci-8 of our section. By the united action
°f Jli.cUell, Worth, Lee, Baker and Calhoun
^unties in connection with Dougherty, an
*8eociation could be organized which would
j 0 cre dit to tiouthwestern Georgia. The
should be purchased as early as practi-
^ole aud the necessary buildings erected
delay. Let ns all work in unison,
thus benefit each and every person re-
uiiug 1q thiiis delightful section of Georgia.”
„ Y ° Jesup Sentinel of the sixth says :
About fifteen minutes to twelve o’clock
.eeterday the alarm of tire was heard. It
ascertained that Dr. K. B. Harris*
„ w aa on fire. When first discov-
Lf U ^ re was in the kitchen, but
fcJ Jre buckets and water could be
^ the fiainee had too far advanced
J 2 -ye the buiidiugs. The place was occn-
. by p r . T. Lvtimer. He succeeded
saving everything in tha house, although
jBtgsrt to some extent iu the excitement
k bug them out. The buildings were a total
,® 8 - No iQsurance. Dr. Harris’ loss is
aatli °i gllt hundred dollars. The fire origi-
intn4K fr " m Btove Pip® where it went
^epipe ” U<3 ’ ce ^ n ^ being too close to
.^Dalton Enterprise says: “Mr. John
v' ^uis, of the Union House, of Green
f 0r bpnngs, Fla., was in the city last week
ahinm l iQr P US9 of arranging for regular
pmeuts of meat from this market, but
Geor?* avail. Query No. 2 : Does North
HiseS?** ° ff0r inducements to stock
ENRICHING THE VATICAN.
The
Splendid LiftH of the Catholics of
Both Hemispheres to Pins IX.
The Thomaston Herald asks this pertinent
question: “When did Thomaston see the
first of Juno without having shipped West
ern corn here for the farmers? Upson is all
right.”
This from the Newnan Blade: “No in
habitant is old enough to remember ever
having seen such a spell of hot, dry weather
at this season of the year as we have had for
the last four weeks. Thermometer way up
in the nineties, gardens drying up and crops
not growing.”
Chattanooga’ Times: “ On show day
at Dalton Mr. King, druggist, lost by theft
from the pocket of his ejat fifty dollars in
money, and many valuable papers were
taken. Detectives were vigilant in this city
last night, but up to two o’clock had not
succeeded in capturing the scouDdre!.”
The Central Georgia Weekly thinks that
old Pike will do well to tie to on the Consti
tutional Convention question. It says :
“ VVe asked one of our county nominees why
ho did not address the people on the conven
tion question. His reply was: ‘There is
no use, the people of Pike will vote right
anyway.’ Well, aftor reflection, we
think tliGre is no use ourselves,
as we have said before, old Pike
will do to tie to, on questions of this
kind. Politically, Tike is thoroughbred and
true-blue. Hence we have no fears thai
she will go back on her fair record on so im
portant a measure as the conveution ques-
ton.”
An editorial letter in the Thomaston Her
ald says: “The crops of Talbot, where we
passed, are much further advanced than iu
Upson, we suppose on account of the more
recent rains over there. Wheat is very fine
there as here, but forwarder, there Deiog
some ready to reap and some we saw being
cut. Cotton is looking young and unso
phisticated aud we apprehend will ‘peg out’
altogether about the first of June when tho
snow comes.”
The Atlanta Constitution says: “A promi
nent lawyer in Middle Georgia, in a commu
nication printed elsewhere, shows that there
is no Georgia law which consigns minors to
chains on account of vagrancy, and he
quotes the section of the Code which pro
vides for their disposition. If th§ section
ofsthe Code which our correspondent quotes
is to be construed as it reads, minors can
not be convicted of vagrancy. We most
respectfully call the attention of the officers
of the law to this section. Under it the mi
nors who are still in the chain gang for
vagrancy are now being subjected to a most
cruel and unjustifiable martyrdom.”
The Columbus Enquirer has the following
episode of “college” farming : “A sturdy
farmer of Chattahoochee county, who had
received few educational advantages, deter
mined that his son should bo thoroughly
educated. He therefore sent him to the
best schools in the couuty, aud when suffi
ciently advanced sent him to college. Tom,
while’a bright student, did not rank very
high when it, came to work. During vaca
tion he came homo and ihe old iuau r know
iug his aversion to labor, called him up one
morning, and giving him a bag of peas,
directed him to sow them in a certain
field. Tom took the peas and started for
the field. After he had been gone about
half an hour, tho old rnau thought ho would
go and see how his son was doing tho work.
When he reached the field, to his surprise,
Tom was mounted on a mule and busily
engaged scattering the peas. The old man
protested, but Tom assured him it was the
way it was done at college, and a great im
provement on the old fogy method. After
witnessing the operation awhile the father
thought he would like to givo the new way
a practical test, so he called his son,
saying : ‘ Git off that critter, Tom,
aud jist let me try my bp.nd a ’it-
x;e.’ Tom dismounted, aud the old man
mounted the mule. The c ne«v wav’ was
novel, and the old man was delighted. He
w r as getting on finely when the mule chanced
to turn his head, just as he was scattering a
handful,’ which, instead of reaching the
ground, went into the mule’s ear. The
mule, unaccustomed to such famili
arity, gave some novel movements, and
the old man landed on his head some
twenty feet away. Tom rushed to his
father’s assistance, and raised him up.
The old man was somewhat riled, and, col
lecting himself, said: ‘Tom, you infernal
fool, if you try any more of your college
farming* on this place, I’ll baste you alive.
Dern your college farming. Take up th^m
pons and sow them like a white man, and
none of your college lamin’ here/ Tom
sowed the peas the old fashioned way, but if
he wanted a muss he had only to suggest to
the old man how a thing was done at col
lege.”
J. S. Newman, writing to the Georgia
Grange, says: “The thousands of acr^s of
green pastures, now in their prime, and
shaded by tho pines from the summer sun,
seem intended by nature as the home of tbe
sheep, and are destined at no distant day
to become as noted as the celebrated
Downs of England. We would make only
one amendment to what nature has done—
we would supplement the natural pasturage
with Bermuda grass, the best sheep pasture
grass in the world. This done, South
Georgia would indeed be tho shepherd s
paradise.”
[Rome Correspondence of the New York Even
ing Post.]
The Jubilee of Pius IX. brings a throng
of duBty pilgrims, with staff and crook
and bag, to Rome, the centre of the Ro
man Catholic world. . We who live in
the old city recognize new comers by their
red guide books and their evident look of
being sight seers. They come from all
nations of the world to lay down offer
ings at the feet of the Sovereign Pontiff.
Although many have arrived, and more
are expected, until the 3d of June, which
is the fiftieth anniversary of the Pope’s
consecration as a Bishop, it is estimated
that the number will not equal that of
the Spanish pilgrimage last autumn,
which was seven thousand.
The various rich and smgular gifts that
the pilgrims bring to tbe Pope are all to
be exhibited iu a gallery of the Vatican,
which was one of the Loggie of Raphael.
The exhibition will last one month—
from the 21st of May to the 21st of June.
Showers of gold seem to rain on the
Vatican, and all the riches of the world
and the glory of them are represented iu
thes gifts, which are humbly offered by
the f athful at the feet of Pius IX. Tnere
are two hundred English pilgrims from
the aristocracy bringing twenty thousand
pounds sterling. Americans, headed
by Archbishops Wood of Philadelphia,
Baiiy of Baltimore, and the representa
tive of Cardinal McCloskey of New York,
bring iu all §110,000. There is a box of
unset diamonds from South America, a
gold cup from Lyons, two keys, half a
yard long, one of silver and the other of
gold, symbols of the Pontifical power,
from Clermont; a gilt oak throne, covered
with ancient sculptures, and fifty-six
thousand francs from Marseilles, and
three purses full of gold, one for poor
priests, one for the seminaries, and one
to repurchase the ecclesiastical properties
from Lisle.
One of the gifts is an album richly
bound, the leaves of which are bank
note A society of workingmen sends a
silver statuette of Jesus as a laborer; and
the ex-officers of the Pontifical army have
sent the Pope a sword. The Belgians
send thirty altars for poor churches, and
the Swiss pilgrims bring no less than fifty
silver watches. The clericals of Venice
send a magnificent chandelier wrought at
the glass factory of Salviate. This is de
scribed as an artistic wonder. Its
diameter is 2.70 metres and its height
four metres—a metre being a little more
than a yard. It is decorated with wfeatha
and bouquets of glass flowers in various
oolors, with appropriate inscriptions,
with the Papal tiara, and with the lien of
St. Mark.
The 3d of June, when the principal
festivities will take place, coincides
strangely enough with the national holi
day, or i he Festa Della Statuto. Both
parties, Clericals and Liberals, are judi
ciously taking measures to avoid disturb
ance in the city. The fireworks, which
are always displayed from Castle St. An
gelo, will be omitted this year, and the
Pope has ordered the Jubilee to be ob
served the day before.
The Piazza della Minerva, which is the
rendezvous for the pilgrims, and where
there is a good inn, of which they have
taken possession, gives the idea of an
ethnographical museum. There is tbe
picturesque costume of Normandy and
Brittany, the Cracovian dress, and that
of Holland. The French women seem to
be all dressed in black lustre and to wear
muslin caps on their heads. A number
of these were crowding around their
Bishop the other day its the public square
to kiss his hand. Some policemen in
their black and orange uniforms stood
looking on, and to give color to the scene
at the church of Santa Maria Sopra Mi
nerva was the carnage of some tilled
clerical lady with its crimson dressed
outriders. To add to the fatigue, many
of the French pilgrims have gone tc
Naples to see the miracle of the Jiquifica-
tion of the blood of San Gennaro. The
anniversary of this miracle took place
last week, but in order to gratify curios
ity it will be repeated.
AMONG THE HODOL’S.
Visit to the Kcinnant of
Buiui.
Cupt- Jack’s
[Baxter Springs (Ks.) Correspondence.]
The Modocs, you will remember, have
been in the nation but little over three
years, so you will, perhaps, be somewhat
inclined to doubt the truth of statements
I shall make in regard to them When
they had been here long enough to be
come partially accustomed to their new
life ali the children of the tribe under
twenty were taken from their homes and
placed at the Quapaw Mission School,
under charge of Asa Tattle and his wife.
The school opens every fall and con
tinues in session until the following
June The children remain there with
out ’visiting home until the close of
the school. I visited the school wuen
the children had been there a year,
and found almost all of the older Modoc
children able to read anc, sped remark
ably well, everything considered. Many
of them have been converted to Ofans-
tiamty. among them “Bogus Chaney,
head chief of tho tribe. Some time ago
I heard him speak to the caildren of
the public schools of this city He told
them that he nevei ceased to thank
God that his people had been brought
here; that they were happy here, and
were learning to get good; that they
were all sorry for the deeds they Lad
done before th^y came, and never wanted
to commit such acts again, but that
thev wanted to live in peace always. A
few y dlys ago I attended what to you
would doubtless be a novelty—an Indian
Sabbath school. I was accompanied by
General Butterfield, of Kansas City who,
like many others, was sometimes like an
unbeliever iu regard to toe progress the
Modoc children hud made, bnt before he
1, ions in the house* and when he
heard them" s ’ D f. iE f g w ““wep'Taway 1
Th^Modoc people a'ren^
the men raise small crops of corn, pota-
toes, and ^ thT’ho^
their welfare. As a tribe
tially self-supporting.
par-
There was a strange christening scene
in All Saints’ Church, West Bromwich,
England, on May 13. The church, the
churchyard, and the streets were crowd
ed, for the gossips Lad known for a week
that one of the vicar’s parishioners, who
accused him of being the father of her
illegitimate child, intended to present her
self before the font. “What name do
you give this child?” asked the vicar,
whose name was Frederick Willett.
George White, the young woman’s father,
answered sharply, “Frederick Willett
White.” Mr. Willett instantly refused
to give the child that name, stating that
they were assuming bis own name. The
child’s mother shook her head and the
child’s grandfather said “No.” Taking
the child in his arms and pouring water
on its head, the vicar named it “George
White.” The grandfather remonstrated
against the arbitrary use of his own name,
aud the High Sheriff, who happened to
be the vicar’s father-in-law, went forward
and led the irascible gentleman out of
the church.
A Fable—The Philosopher and the
Simpleton.—A Simpleton, having had
Occasion to seat himself, sat down on
Pin; whereon he made an Outcry unto
Jupiter. A Philosopher, who happened
to be holding up a Hitching-Post in the
vicinity, rebuked him, saying, “I can tell
you how to avoid hurting yourself by sit
Liug down ou Fins, and will, if you will
sot them up.” The Simpleton eagerly
accepting the Offer, the Philosopher
swallowed four fingers of the Rum which
parisheth, and replied, “Never sit down.”
He subsequently acquired a vast Fortune
by advertising for Agents, to whom he
guaranteed $77 a Week for light aud easy
Employment at their Homes.
Mobal.—The Wise Man saith, “There
is a Nigger in the Fence,” but the Fool
Sendeth on 50 Cents for Sample and is
Taken in.— N. 7. World.
To the season of early summer are pe
culiar shad, spring lamb, strawberry
short cakes, circus accidents, and obit
uaries of little girls who jumped the skip
ping rope a hundred and y times. It is
the custom of some coroners a custom
more honored in the breach than the
observance 1 —to stimulate the skipping
industry by praising performers on that
slack-rone or bestowing prizes upon
them. Little girls should distrust these
coroners and the gifts they bring, for, as
the proverb very wisely says, “The little
girl who jumps often over the skipping-
rope comes home on ice at last.”—World.
The ignorance of some of our most
wealthy citizens is absolutely humiliating.
A man who pays taxes on any quantity of
leal estate stopped us yesterday and
asked us to change his Evening Herald
to a Morning Herald,. “But our paper
only appears in tbe evening,” we ex^
claimed. “AH right! I've been a friend
of tbe paper for twenty years, but that
settles it. If you haven’t got accommo
dation enough to print me my copy in
the morning you are not a live newspaper
into maa apd catl t keep up with railroads and
progress anti sich 1 ”—San Antonio Her
ald.
Moee or That “Higher Civilization.
-A Chicago dispatch says: “Informs
I m reached here to-night of a horrible
■ age which occurred a few miles from
•tage City, Wis. Mrs. Winslow, a very
spectable lady, accompanied by her
says aDoui untiu^ui ~ - Tram 01 .aughter, aged sixteen years, while on
party of roughs assaulted o u.er iau > bome last nigll t were waylaid
niu Rust and overpowered ana oru . . , ., „ho stormed and tied
hm beat, ^ [Train drew a revolver ||
— - a. I- ...r-itl.l ra t c
Law and Obdeb in the Land of,S-eadi j
Habits —A Manchester, N. U > “ b >“
■■about midnight on ^dayLighta
andfired" several slfo to at hw Wkm
mortally wounding William Ryan. ”
“ „.if 0 had just served out a-f-t oe
here Other effio - wl came to the
“ er o _. rn store. the mot. and a
f 68C fi crowd assembleT about tho .ation
Srbnt noSngfcr-nertbai beaten-
ing was attempted- ^
An I*tota«£« a? 0 * 1 i°£ e
.. - i stocking without mgs. A de-
“ a footless stock, g H is better .
scription by another Ln ^ .. 8hut
your eyes
d vou’ll see it,” said Pat.
by three ruffians, who stopped and tied
the team which was being driven by Miss
Winslow, and inflicted a horrible outrage
upon mother and daughter. After the
fiendish deed had been committed they
were horribly beaten by tbe ruffians and
left in a condition that recovery seems
almost impossible.”
Thinking over it, we know of nothing
neater iu the way of decoration honors to
the dead soldier than to decorate his
little orphan girl with a new dress or his
widow’s front door witha load of wood.—
NathvilU American.
WOSDERFIL BROTHERS.
One C'oinmlt# a .Murder and (be Other
Agree** to Hang for the C'rime— Dunion
find Pythian Uepeated—“slaved by a
Neck.’
Lincoln, Neb , May 2‘J, 1877.—A case
outrivaliing tha of Damon and Pythias
has just occurred in the State of Missouri,
of wflich we have seen no full account.
We have been fortunate in obtaining the
facts from one who was interested some
what in the matter, and subjoin them.
In Bloomfield, a little town in the
county of Stoddard, State of Missouri,
lived twobro hers, Poindexter and James
Edmondson. Poindexter, the elder, was
a smart, intelligent young man of twenty-
seven, who had for years cared for and
protected his younger brother James.
The latter was of feeble mind, but was
remarkable for the affection displayed to
ward his elder brother. The slightest
wish of Poindexter was to James a sacred
oommand, and the affection was re
turned in an eqflal degree by the
older brother. Last summer Poin
dexter had some trouble with a man
named William Shaw, anl in the fight
which ensued Edmondson was struck on
the head with a brick by Shaw and seri
ously injured. He was confined to his
room for a considerable length of time,
and during his confinement very natur
ally gave expression to such remarks as
“I’ll get even wit h him,” “I’ll fix Shaw
for this,” etc. These expressions were
noticed and remembered by many people
who called to see him, though nobody
paid any great attention to them at that
lime. During the illness of Poindexter,
James showed remarkable tits of violent
auger toward Shaw, whenever he saw his
brother’s wound; and long afterward,
when the wound had healed, he woul.i
fly into a violent fit of rage at sight of
the scar in his brother’s head.
SHAW MUBDEBED.
One day last October Poindexter, while
sitting with his brother, suddenly put
his hand to his head, complaining that it
ached terribly, and that he believed that
S_iaw had given him a wound from which
he would never entirely recover. James
had his usual paroxysm, and Poindexter
tried to soothe him mentally finding fault
with himself for so thoughtlessly speak
ing of this subject before his half crazed
brother.
The next day James disappeared and
that night Shaw was found cut to pieces
with a butcher knife and quite dead in
his room. Suspicion at once fastened
upon Poindexter Edmondson, because of
the former trouble he had had with Shaw
and his threats during and since his
illness. Ho was arrested and thrown into
prison.
For two days the most agonizing
thoughts filled the mind of Poindexter in
regard to the murder. The actions of his
brother James, his disappearance and the
murder following upon it pointed in his
mind to his brother James as the murder
er of Shaw. But he heroically kept his
mouth*sealed. On the third day James
returned and confessed to his brother
that he had murdered Shaw, and waited
to denounce himself at once and take his
place behind the bars with his brother.
But Poindexter refused to allow it. In
the most binding way and in the most
sacred manner he commanded his brother
never to tell anybody the facts in the
case. Used to obeying his brother’s
slightest wish he readily made the re
quired promises.
POINDEXTER SENTENCED TO DEATH.
The trial of Poindexter came on and
the best attorneys that coulcf be found
were employed iu th6 defence. They
did all that could be done, yet they ware
convinced that Poindexter was keeping
back from them some important truth
about the matter. They urged upon him
the necessity of confiding everything to
his attorneys; but he invariably replied
that he had told all about tbe case that
he could tell and all he knew. The trial
ended, and the j ary brought in a verdict
of guilty of murder in the first degree,
and the nnfortuuate man was sentenced
to be hanr ed on May 22, 1877. The at
torneys tried by every means to get a new
trial, to have the Supreme Court review
the decision of the lower court, but in
vain, and the young man prepared for his
almost unheard of sacrifice. As a last re
sort an appeal was made to Gov. Phelps
for interference; but after every argu
ment had been exhausted the Governor
firmly refused to interfere with the find
ings of the court. The last hope was
gone, and Poindexter prepared for death.
A TIMELY CONFESSION.
The fatal day was drawing near, but the
interposing hand of Providence was also
near. A few days before the time set for
the judicial murder, James Edmondson
was taken suddenly ill at Bloomfield and
laid upon his deathbed. Then, knowing
that his life was drawing to an end, he
confessed that he, and not his brother,
had killed William Shaw. Proper wit
nesses were called in and the confession
was taken down in writing. As a matter
of course, the people were greatly excited.
There were but a few days intervening
before the time set for the execution.
What was to be done must be done quick
ly. A publio meeting was calltd, a sum
of money raised and a young man sent
with all possible speed to lay the facts be
fore Governor Phelps at Jefferson City.
Bloomfield is a considerable distance from
the railroad, but the young lawyer who
was sent as messenger rode to tbe near
est railroad station and then has
tened to Jefferson City and laid the
papers before Governor Phelp=. This
was on the Sunday evening preceding the
Tuesday when Edmondson was to have
suffered. The Governor granted a res
pite to August (1, and then the lawyer ba-
gan his ride for a life. He first tele
graphed to Dexter, the nearest telegraph
station, the result of his mission, aud
then, as fast as steam and horse could
carry him, he hastened back to Bloom
field with the Governor’s order of com
mutation. He was not an hour too soon,
although his telegram bad been received
before. But there was no hanging in
Bloomfield on that day, and the people
were all immensely happy. Poindexter
Edmondson could not speak when first
informed that his brother had made a
confession. James died, and the jailer,
without authority of law, let his brother
attend the funeral under guard. Meas-
ufgg were at once set on foot to induce
the Governor to grant a full and uncon
ditional pardon, which will no doubt be
done in a day or two.
CRAZED BT RELIGION.
PareDta Who Hoped lor Heaveo by
Statvioa Tbeuiselres ami Chlld-
[From the St. Louis GlobefMay 30 ]
On Second street, in South St. Louis,
aud about midway of the block, is a neat
one-8tor> brick house, the two front
rooms of which are occupied by Henry
Lutner, his wife and a little daughter
about eight years of age. The rear por
tion of the building is occupied by an -
other family. Lutner and his wife were
religious enthusiasts, and for the past
three or four days have been perfectly in
sane on this subject. They have not
only kept themselves in almost entire se
clusion. but have compelled the little girl
to keep company with them and partici
pate in their fanatical proceedings. The
blinds of the house have been kept shut
and the windows closely curtained. The
family, from all appearances last night,
had eaten little or nothing for the past
few days, their time having been spent
in praying and singing, after the fancy
of their strange superstitions.
The neighbors living iu the vicinity
have noticed the peculiar manner in
which Lutner and his wife have acted
si"ce Sunday last, and, as their actions
grew more and more mysterious each
day, it was resolved yesterday to solve
the mystery. It was feared by many that
the child had either been starved to death
or foully dealt with, and the excitement
of the crowd that assembled around the
house last night scarcely knew bounds.
The yard, as well as the street, was full
of people; some having come through
mere curiosity, while others were anxious
to know of the welfare of the child.
An appeal was made to Captain Lee,
and yesterday an officer made repeated
attempts to get into the house, but each
time without success. The inmates
would neither answer him nor give him
any satisfaction. Lutner could be fre
quently heard in his devotions, but when
asked to open the door would treat the
request with contempt. The child would
occasionally be heard to cry, and this
seemed to prey so on those in the vicinity
tuat ihe people became perfectly wild
with excitement.
Last evening, about dark, Sergeant
Canton and Officer Genall went down de
termined to solve the mystery. It was
very difficult to gaiu an entrance to the
house, but after unlocking a door, lead
ing into the rear apartments of the build
ing the officers entered the back room of
the two occupied by the Lutner family.
The wife, as soon as the officers entered,
ran into the front room aud locked the
door after her. This door had to be
forced, and the officers and several of tbe
neighbors who accompanied them found
themselves in the presence of two rnani
aes. The man was perfectly wild, and
fought desperately before he was over,
powered and could be taken to the police
station. The woman, too, seemed to be
in a perfect frenzy, and it was only by
main force that tbe chiid could be taken
from her. The little one was given to
Mrs. F. King, a near neighbor, to be cared
for while the mother and father were
locked up at the station, the latter having
to bs handcuffed. They will probably be
sent to the Insane Asylum.
Lutner is a blacksmith, employed in the
machine shops of the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern Road. He and
his wife are members of the German Lu
theran Church, in South St. Louis, and
they have alwajs borne the reputation of
being thrifty and hard working people.
Bblef, Bot Romantic.—Ten years a;o
a young roan passed through Montioello,
Ky., aud was noticed by a young girl at
tue window of the most aristocratic house
iu town. She fell in love with him at
first sight. She had wealth, culture and
beauty. He was poor, and was then on
his way to seek a fortune as a cattle
herder in Texas. After many nps and
downs he found himself the owner of a
silver mine in New Mexico. The girl
bloomed into a rare and beautiful woman,
with literary ability, and became a con
tributor to the Apostolic Times. She
learned who the unconscious object of
her affection was, and corresponded
throughout the ten years. She never
wrote a word of her personal attractions
or family, nor did he ever speak of his
good fortune. A few weeks ago he wrote
her proposing marriage, and soon fol
lowed his letter to her Kentucky home,
where he saw her for the first time. Re
cently they were married, and Miss Annie
Berry, that was, learned on reaching Sil
ver City, that her husband, R B. Met
calf, was the greatest capitalist in New
Mexico.
Starvation on Long Island.—One day
last week Dr. Burns, of FiushiDg, Long
Island, was called to attend a child re
ported seriously ill at a house on the
Dillon Farm at Foster’s Meadow. Pro
ceediug to tho place, he found a miserable
hovel occupied by a laborer on tbe farm,
together with 1 is wife, who had just
been confined, and the child, about five
years old, for whose complaint he was
expected to prescribe. The furniture was
of the rudest, and all the surroundings
betokened the extremest poverty, while
the appearance of the inmates pointed, if
not at actual starvation, to the very next
thing to it. The father said he oi_ly re
ceived between three and four dollars per
week—not sufficient to purchase the nec
essaries of life, much less medicine and
medical aid. The mother had not, des
pite her condition, received either, and
the elder child was dying through neg
lect. The doctor did the best be could
for it, but he had been called too late to
save its life.—N. 7. World.
Imbibing American Ideas.
[From the London News ]
At tbe Westminster County Court yes
terday a respectably-dressed man, who had
been making a disturbance at the back of
the court, was ordered by the learned
Judge to leave the court, and upon Lam
bert, one of the officers, attempting to
remove him, he was violently assaulted
by the person in question. By direction
of tbe Judge, Farrow, the chief usher,
and Mr. Summers, the chief bailiff's of
ficer, took him into custody until the
oases before the court were disposed of.
Prior to the rising of the court ho was
brought before His Honor, aud stated
that he was a gentleman, of no
occupation, residing at No. 22 Bute
street, South Kensington, and, as
he was roughly- handled by the
officer, he resented it. He was merely in
court as a witness, and considered he had
been unfairly dealt with. The learned
Judge said his conduct was indefensible,
and'ordered a warrant to be made out for
his incarceration in Holloway Prison for
seven days. Subsequently the prisoner’s
father came into court to ask for a mitiga
tion of the sentence, on the ground that
his son had been a long time in America,
and had imbibed American ideas, which
he had imported with him. His son was
very sorry for what had occurred, and he
hoped the court would accept this apolo
gy. The learned Judge said he would not
at present interfere, but would consider
the subject A seoond application on the
part of the father induced His Honor to
grant the release of the prisoner.
Ex-Chancellor Robert Lowe, of Eng
land, writes a letter insisting on fifteen
new letters being added to the alphabet,
as the [anguage contains twenty-nine
sounds,
Genera! Sheridan contributed briefly to
tbe Decoraton Day talk about reconcilia
tion. In a brief speech in Chicago he
said he was ready to applaud the desire to
forgive all the past, but to do that tbe
forgiveness must be thorough and mutual.
It would have to be based upon a mutual
forgiveness, for they could not forgive
the past if it meant the stultification of
ail their faith in the past. The men
whose graves he had visited that day
would also forgive, yes, right heartily ;
but if they were alive they would only
do so upon the principle for which they
died. Aud on no other could they, the
survivors of that terrible struggle, unite
harmoniously upon tbe common ground
of mutual attmesty. Tbp fact wa. that
there was altogether too much talk about
this political and sectional forgiveness.
If the people were let alone, it would all
come in time. If the matter was let
alone, all would come right.
The New Party Hu rating.
[From toe New Orleans Democrat, May IS.]
The correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, Mr. Redfield, who has been
for some time in the Southern States,
writes that there is no sign of a break in
the line of the Southern Democracy.
"The South,” says this writer, “is as solid
as a granite mountain, and if there was a
general election to-day, every Southern
State would go with the Northern De
mocracy, if the route took them to the
devil as welL” The correspondent of the
Cincinnati paper is in the main correct,
Gough the adhesion of the South to the
Democratic party is not so blind and un
reasoning as he ignorantly or maliciously
intimates.
Thairissues upon which parties have
been for years divided have not materi
ally changed; and before they can be a
political revolution the very bedrock of
existing parties must be shattered and
broken up by a great convulsion.
We have heard a great deal of balder
dash about the new party in this section,
which is expected to be the outgrowth or
consequence of the- President’s Southern
policy; but we have not heard a single
intelligent reason advanced for the or
ganization of any such party. What is its
purpose and mission? What weighty
issue has sprung up to change the political
alignments in the South ?
The policy of the National Democratic
party for ten years has been to restore
local self-government to the Southern
Slates; to cease ail Federal and military
interference iu Southern politics, and to
leave these States, like those of the North,
under their own laws and chosen rulers
to develop their resources, and generally
to advance their own ma erial and social
interests. Upon the other hand, for ten
years, indeed for a quarter of a century—
but aggressively and with armed force
aud violence for ten years—the Repub -
beau party has been engaged in a syste
matic aud ceaseless effort to subjugate,
dishonor and devastate the South.
Throughout the three last Presidential
campaigns this has been the issue be
tween the Democratic and Republican
parties; the former all the time increas
ing its strength and maintaining
its broad, liberal and constitutional
theory, and the latter constantly losing
in strength, but increasing and intensi
fying the malovelence and virulence of its
policy of conquest, insult aud devastation,
until in the last election the liberal and
enlightened principles of the Democracy
received the full aud emphatic indorse -
ment of the American people in the eltc
tion of Governor Tilden. The inaugu
ration of Mr. Hayes, the defeated candi
date, was the most audacious manifesta
tion of the utterly lawless and vindictive
spirit which for a quarter of a cen
tury has animated and characterized the
Republican party, and showed that it had
then lost none of its dangerous rancor.
#Thus, up to the 4th of March, there
was nothing in the politics of the conn
try, or in tbe policy of tbe government,
to lead to the organization of a new or
anti-Democratio party in the South. But
we are told the poliey of justice, peace
a id conciliation, adopted by the Presi-
d -nt, ought in its nature to disrupt the
Democratic party, at least in South
Carolina and Louisiana, and lead a large
portion of the people of those States to
join the President’s party.
Those are shallow-minded leaders who
entertain so low an opinion and possess
so imperfect a knowldge of human nature
and the common sense of the people as to
expect any such result. The policy
adopted by the President is the policy for
the institutiop of which the Democratic
party has fought for tea years, and
against which the Republicans have an
persistently struggled. It is the Demo
cratic poiicy, aid its adoption by Mr.
Hayes is, if possible, stronger evidence of
the’ fact that the American people have
repudiated the narrow, cruel and vicious
principles of the Republican party than
was the election of Mr. Tilden, foi it
shows that the Democratic sentiment of
the country is so powerful that a Presi
dent, inaugurated through fraud and vio
lence by its enemies, is forced to adopt
its policy.
What power or force then, is at work
calculated to destroy, or even to disrupt
the Democratic party in Louisiana and
he South ? The Republican party has
not abandoned its line. Blaine, Wendel!
Phillips, Ben Wade, Garfield, and a vas:
majority of its leaders, stand as unyield
inglv by its traditional principles as they
did in 1868, and they are constantly vex
ing the ears of the people with their
virulent and vindictive utterances. The
organization of the Republican party has
beer, demoralized by the policy of the
President, it is true. But would it not
be the very extreme of folly for any por
tion of the Democrats of the South to
organize a political movement to rein
force, reorganize and revitalize the part]
of hate, sectionalism and violence ?
As citizens solicitous for our own wtl
fare and freedom, we couid never do this.
As politicians, we would play a silly part
in abandoning our own party now that it
is for the first time in twenty years in the
majority to join a defeated and disorgan
ized party. As patriots devoted to thr
peaoe, prosperity and honor of the whoh
country, we cannot become part of a
political organization which has dis
graced the Union and devastated many
of its States; which created reeoustruc
tion, carpet baggery and the aristocracy
of corruptionists, and which has fostered
in the country civil strife and sectional
bitterness.
There will be, as Mr. Redfield says, no
disruption of party iines in the South ye;
awhile. The President may become iden
tified with the Democratic party of th<
ci untry, and we hope he will; but he can
not carry Southern Democrats into thi
ranks of the party of Morton, Blaine,
Grant, Phillips, Garfield, Wade A Co. Thi
honor and interests of the Union, and
prosperity of the South, and the restore
tion of constitutionalism in the govern
ment, demand that that party shall be
broken up, destroyed, and driven from
power;'and until that is accomplished thi
South will be, as Mr. Redfield says, “as
solid as a granite mountain.”
A MURDEROUS ACT.
Darina Attempt to YVrerk and Hob o
Train—Cars Hurled O.iwo on Embank
ment and Three Men Killed—The ltd li
ner. Fire Severn! Shorn and Thrn
Itetirc.
An account of the great tidal wave at
Hilo, Sandwich Islands, on the 10th of
May, describes its progress as rapidly
destructive; within an hour after its first
appearance it was twelve feet three
inches above ordinary low-water mark,
and it carried off a great deal of lumber
and all the stone wall of the wharf. At
Waiakea the damage was frightful, many
buildings, warehouses, and dwelling
houses being reduced to ruins. Far in
land five lives were lost, and many were
much bruised and injured. At Hilo,
from lowest ebb to flood, the time was
only four minutes, the tide rising fourteen
perpendicular feet in that time. Withir
on hour, in the afternoon, the sea rose
and fell three tijnes. The wave at
Waiakea mast have had a perpendicular
height of sixteen feet to have carried the
bridge and wharf so far. A hospital on
Cocoanut Island was washed away.
An English clergyman named Ramus
has invented and submitted to the British
Admiralty a “rocket float,” which weighs
fifty tons, and pushes itself along the
water at tbe rate of two hundred and
seventy-five miles an hour. On coming
into collision with a vessel or any other
object, it makes a great explosion, de
stroying everything within its reach. Mr.
Ramus is said to be peacefully disposed.
His object in inventing such a machine is
to make it so disagreeable to engage in
maritime warfare that hostile navies will
eventually have to be abolished.
A merchant asked his Sabbath school
class the other Sunday, “ What is soli
tude ? ” and was answered by a boy that
reads the papers, “ The store that don’t
advertise,”
[From toe St. Louis Republican.]
A daring attempt by a band of would-
be train robbers caused a serious accident
ou the St, Louis and San Francisco Rail
way on Satnrday night last, about one
and a half miles west of Wood End, a
point one hundred and fifty-five miles
from St. Louis. The particulars of the
occurrence, as obtained from D. Wishart,
General Passenger Agent of the road, are
as follows: The regular Saturday night
Texas express, which is due in St. Louis
Sunday morning at 6:15, encountered last
Saturday night a severe storm of wind
and rain some two hundred miles
from St. Louis. The storm was so
fierce th*at the speed of the train,
consisting of baggage, second class,
first class and Fullman cars, was slack
ened to ten miles an hour. While run
ning thus through the heart of the
Ozark mountains and at a very lonely
point o.a the road tbe engine was sud
denly thrown from the track by some
misplaoed rails, and turned oompletelt
over down a forty-foot embankment.
The eagineei, Frank Caton, was so badly
injured that he died in two hours, and
the fireman and a Dr. E. L,Atkinson, of
Pacific City, who was riding on the en
gine, were instantly killed. The baggage
car was partially overturned, but uo one
within it received any injury. The other
cars remained upon the track, and with
no damage to any of their occupants.
The engineer lived long enough to
testify to having seen a man upon or near
the track, and also soino slight obstruc
tion. The first intimation of the oatas-
trophe received by Conductor Lewis, of
tho train, was a sudd n checking of tho
train, as though the air brake had been
applied. He sprang to the door and per
ceiving at odc3 that something serious
had occurred, jumped from the car and
proceeded as fast as the darkness would
permit him toward the front of the train.
While scaling a fence which he found iu
his way, some half dozen pistol shots
were discharged at him, one ball passing
through his hat. One passenger claims to
have seen four or five men by the light
of the pistol flashes, but Conductor Lew
is saw no one. The dastards, who by
misplacing the rails caused the accident,
had evidently expected that the passenger
curs would be thrown down the embank
ment, but finding that this had not hap
pened they were not bold enough to
attack the train, and so sneaked away
into the woods. As soon as lights could
be had, an examination of the cause of
the lecident was made. It was found
that two rails (one on each side) had been
unjointed and swung around so as to tip
tbe engine over almost to a certainty.
The work had been skillfully done, and
close by were found a new monkey-
wrench, a clawhammer and a pick, which
may be of great service in tracking the
perpetrators of the foul deed.
MURDER BY BURGLARS.
^liot aud IiiBluntly
Midnight Kobhrm.
Ktllrd by
Singular Phenomenon.—Last week
while Mr. George Pearsal, of Coe town
ship, Rock Island county, Iowa, was
boriDg for coal on his farm in a ravine,
the surface of which is probably ten or
twelve feet higher than Rock river, and
when down seventy feet they heard a
heavy rumbling noise, immediately fol
lowed by 'a rush of water from below
filling tbe six-inch tube which raised the
drilling machinery, weighing some seven
hundred pounds, up many feet. On
moving the drilling apparatus, a volume
of water was thrown into the air perhaps
twenty feet and yet continues to rise
seven or eight feet when it spreads out
into jets like an artificial fountain. It is
estimated that it discharges a barrel of
water a minute. The water is pure and
cold. A Btone thrown into the tube is
immediately hurled back into the air as
is a rail when forced down into it. This
subterranean lake or river must be some
sixty feet below the bed of Rock river.
From whence it comes or where it goes,
or if it is a pent up lake fed by springs,
or an underground river is unknown.—
St. Louis Republican.
A Fiendish Deed.—About midnight
Wednesday, an attempt was made to de
stroy the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw
Railroad bridge over Big Creek, in the
western suburbs of Canton, IU., and thus
wreck a train. The night watchman at
the packing house, near the bridge, beard
the sound of a saw, and looking toward
the bridge, discovered a man m the act
of sawing one of the mam braces of the
bridge. The watchman fired two shots
at the vUlain, but he managed to escape
unhurt. The main brace was sawed about
half through, materially weakening the
bridge, though not enough to prevent
trains from passing over it.
A Boston paper dares to print this:
“Sir, my ancestors came over in the May
flower!” was the rather haughty remark
of one Boston gentleman to another,
during a rather heated conversation re
cently. “That was natural enough,” was
the quick response; “there were no ex
tradition laws in those days.”
About three o’clock Saturday morning
Mr. Samuel Rader, who resides in the
village of Blue Bell, about four miles from
Norristown, Pa., heard a noise made by
some one crawling on the floor of his bed
room. After listening again be sprang
oat of bed, when he was grabbed by a
man, who jumped up from the floor at
the foot of the bed. The burglar, in a
loud whisper, said: “Don’t holloa, or I
will shoot.” Mr. Rader grappled with
one of the intruders and a scuffle ensued.
He then called “ murder!” aud the burg
lar fired, the ball striking the wall. Mr.
Rader seized his gun, and his wife got
out of bed to assist him. The discharge
of his gun was followed by a shot from
the burglar, the ball striking Mrs. Rader
iu the breast aud killing her immediately.
Tbe robbers then fled. One of them
attempted to jump out of the front win
dow, and when partly out, Mr. Rader
gave him a push with his gun, which Bent
him headlong to tbe ground. The ladder
also fell over with him; and upon it, the
windo w and other p'aces his blood could
be seen. The other ran through an en
try and into a side bed room, and jumped
through the window to the ground. He
had received wou ds of some kind, for
u[on the floor aud window were large
drops of blood. In his fight he dropped
his cap upon the floor. The neighbors
were promptly aroused, and by daylight
the surrounding country was alive with
armed men seeking ihe murderers.
Mr. Rader is above seventy-five years
of age and his wife was seventy. The
only other occupant of the house was a
little girl named Katie Dotts. Later
accounts state that the pursuers of the
murderer of Mrs. Rader are close on his
track, and that his capture may be ex
pected at any moment. On Saturday
evening he called at the residence of
Aaron Sperry, six miles from the scene
of the murder, and asked for something
to eat. He was wounded in one arm,
which he carried in a sling, and his fore
head and face were badly scratched and
wounded. He is a mulatto.
[Chicago Tribune.]
The plan said to be under consideration
by some of the New York banks for the
contraction of the legal tenders to $300,-
000,000 by the alternate increase and re
tirement of bank circulation, thereby
compelling the Secretary of the Treasury
to destroy greenbacks to the extent of 80
per cent, of the new issues which are to
be subsequently retired, is exciting a
great deal of attention. The comment is
not generally favorable. Prudential rea
sons operate to make the banks alow to
engage in a scheme which may prove ex
ceedingly unpopular. It is an unwar
ranted extension of the duties of banks
for them to undertake of their own
motion 4o reform the national currency.
Great stringency of the money market
might follow the projected action, and if
trouble were the result the banks would
be severely blamed. The current of leg
islation as revealed in the re cent refusal
of the Legislature of New Yerk and Illi
nois to relieve the national banks of ex
cessive taxation, now runs as strongly
against the banks as they care to have it.
They are not likely to take the risk of
increasing this hostility. The profit the
oper. tion is expected to yield in the rise
in. rates of discount may be more than
offset by two or three items. It would
cost something to turn the bonds that
would have to be used, and the circula
tion would have to be taxed.
[Washington special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
It is reported here from sources usually
reliable that Secretary Sherman has origi
nated or gone into a most infernal com
bination, whereby, through an adroit
scheme, the eighty per cent clause of the
resumption act shall make free banking
the means of contracting the legal tender
circulation down to $300,000,#00. A
prominent Sunday newspaper of this city
charges that Sherman is in collusion with
the National Banks,and details the schetno
as follows:
“The banks embraced in the scheme
are to apply to the Treasury for certain
amounts of additional circulation. Upon
the circulation being obtained it is to be
locked up for use, and not contribute to
ease in the money market. Upon tho
issuance of this bank circulation, the
Secretary, pursuant to section 3 of the
resumption act, will retire and cancel an
amount of legal tenders equal to eighty
per cent, of the new bank notes issued,
thereby effecting a contraction of legal
tenders to that extent, in order to provide
the legal tenders to be thus canceled. It is
further understood that the Secretary will
sell, under the authorization olaimed by
tho resumption act, an equivalent amount
of bonds for gold, subsequently sell
ing the latter for greenbacks. An effort
has been or is being made to secure the
'co-operation in this plan by banks in
Philadelphia and Boston. To what ex
tent it is proposed to carry this proces-
remains to be seen. It does not, how -
ever, require any very extensive co opera
tion to t fleet in this way an important
degree of contraction. Each bank in the
scheme can, by returning immediately
for retirement the notes it has thus re
ceived, repeal the operation about twice a
month, so that a bank taking out say
$50,000 of circulation can compel a con
traction of legal tenders to the extent of
$80,000 within each month. The plan is
as ingenious as it is startling; it is born
of the necessities of what bankers con
sider a beggarly rate of interest.
The devilisbneas of such a proposition is
at once apparent. The Secretary has
been giviDg out of late tbe idea that he
has the right to make an idle fund of
greenbacks iu the Treasury of $10,000,-
000 ; aud he is right about it, because the
law gives him the privilege. Bankers
and merchants could not accumulate
fractional currency fast enough to get the
silver change out in quantities large
enough to meet the wants of trade. So
Congress passed an aot July 22, 1876,
whereby any merchant or bunker could
go to the Treasury or any sub-
Treasury with greenbacks and get
silver change; but the whole
amount of silver put out iu this way
cannot exceed ten million dollars. Tbe
greenbacks so received cannot be reis
sued, but are to be held as a special fund
in the Treasury and never again issued
except in redemption of fractional cur
rency. To offset this ten millions idle
fund there connot be more than half a
million fractional currency come in for
redemption. Already Sherman has turn
ed eight millions greenbacks into tbe
fund, and before three months hence it
will amount to a contraction of ten mil
lions of greenbacks. It should be un
derstood that this is one of the sly meth
ods of contraction, and has ubthing to
do with the three hundred millions limit
provided by law.
A Bbooklyn Brute.—Late ou Satur
day night Andrew Barnhill returned to
his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., and began,
as was his constant habit, to abuse his
wife.' The inhuman brute knocked his
wife down and kicked her. When t ihe
tried to make her escape he locked her in.
She struggled to defend herself, but he
beat her until she was almost uncon-
cious, and then dragging her to the win
dow threw her out. Barnhill’s eldest
daughter, eleven years of age, tried to
defend her mother, but was knocked
down by her father. Mrs. Barnhill was
taken to the hospital, audit was supposed
that she was fatally injured. Her hus
band made a desperate resistance, but
was overpowered and locked up. Yester
day it was found out that the unfortun
ate woman had no bones broken, but her
limbs appeared to be paralyzed.
Porfirio Diaz, who attained the Presi
dency of the Mexican republic by force of
arms, and who drove the rightful Presi
dent, Lerdo de Tejada, into exile, is pro
mising to do great things in the way of
reform for our neighboring State. Hayes,
who won the Presidency of our own re
public by force of fraud, is profuse in
the same sort of promises. In neither
case is the result likely to justify the pro-
tension.—N. 7. Sun.
An appeal is made for funds for the es
tablishment in New York city of a tempo
rary home for intemperate men, where
“they may find the encouragements and
restraints needed in their first struggles
to resist a depraved appetite and over
come the effects of entire cessation from
the use of stimulants.” The projectors
of this home are well known citizens of
New York.
Fob Shampooing.—Dissolve one tea
spoonful of borax in a cup of hot water;
apply the liquid to the scalp until a good
lather is produced; then rinse with warm
water, until the hair feels soft and
natural; if desired, a cold water rinse may
be taken at the last; wipe the hair dry
and let it hang loosely about the shoul
ders to get the air through.
New York and Pennsylvania some time
ago appointed a joint commission to re
vise the boundary line between the two
States, fixing its true loaation and replac
ing tbe monuments marking it wherever
they are displaced or missing. The com
mission met in New York this week and
determined that each State should ap
point a surveyor, who should go over the
whole line, and report what work is nec
essary for a proper marking of the boun
dary. The commission lias also de
termined to ask the United States Coast
Survey to make an astronomical deter
mination of four points on the line of the
forty-second parallel of north latitude,
which is tbe interstate boundary west of
the Delaware river. These points being
ascertained, it will not be difficult for the
surveyors to run the parallel between
them.
“Over five million roubles have} been
ruised in Russia fo^war purposes by
voluntary contributions,” Thus an Asso
ciated Press dispatch, whose author does
not reflect that of such a war the price is
far above roubles—five millions of them.
Talkmg of the war, the Russians pay in
Roumania in French gold all sums not
exceeding five hundred francs, or, say,
one hundred dollars. Large payments
are made in bons of five hundred francs
and multiples thereof, printed in Russian
and Roumanian and redeemable in gold
at headquarters. The Grand Duke
Nicholas has signed these, making him
self personally responsible, his signature
being desired by the Roumanian peasants,
who preferred a Grand Duke’s bond
to an empire’s obligation.—New 7ork
World.
When lovely woman stoops to folly in
Greece she has the same inalienable right
to perforate her betrayer that she pos
sesses in the United States. Miss Cana-
vasoglon destroyed her destroyer, a Cap
tain in the Greek army, shooting him in
the public street. She was promptly ac
quitted an£ conducted home in triumph
by a large and enthusiastic crowd.
The noble art of self-defense has been
revived in London society. Boxing
matches are regularly held on Saturday
nights at Sadler’s Wells, and a leading
“professor” is making £1,100 a year by
his lessons to the gilded youth of
Britain.
Paris green having been prescribed as a
death trap for potato bugs, a Massachu
setts savant warns people that particles
of the poison may adhere to the potatoes
when they are dug up, and work as much
barm to the people who eat the potatoes
as it is intended to work to the insects
that devour the plants. This warning
has drawn out thb scientists of the New
York Board of Health, and they declare
that the Massachusetts man is unneces
sarily alarmed about a danger that doesn’t
exist. They say that Paris green cannot
impregnate potatoes, which are always
washed clean before they are eaten, but
that care should be taken that the poison
is not carried by the wind on to other
plants, as it would impregnate lettuce or
other vegetables which are eaten raw.
The Ohio Democrats have taken the
wind out of the sails of the silver agita
tors among tbe Republicans of that State.
They have resolved to pitch the rag baby
overboard and hoist what Mr. Halstead
calls the “Dollar of the Daddies” in its
place as a party ensign. They have de
cided to hold their State convention on
July 25, a week earlier than the Republi
can Convention, and the campaign will
then be started on the silver dollar basis.
This is a shrewd move, and leaves the
Republicans two courses to pursue, either
to try to out-yell the Democrats on the
silver question, or else stand on their old
platform.- -N. 7. Tribune.
Thbee Persons Poisoned.—At Greens-
burg, Pennsylvania, a few days ago,
Samuel N mmy, his daughter, Mrs. Pat
terson and her chiid, and Mrs. Harris, a
visitor, after drinking coffee were attack
ed in a manner indicating arsenical
poison. Physicians were at once sum
moned, but the lives of all are despaired
of except that of Mrs. Harris. Lincoln,
son of Samuel Nimmy, a bright boy aged
fifteen, was arrested and has confessed
the crime. He says his father’s discip
line was severe, and he committed this
wholesale poisoning out of spite “to get
even with the old man.”
Mrs. Mary Livermore apeaking: “In
Iowa I saw a law sign, ‘Foster A Foster.’
It meant Mr. and Mrs. Foster. They
attended the same law school; became
attached, became partners for life. The
man looked up the cases; the woman
pleaded them before the court and jury.
In a certain difficult case where a woman
was concerned he doubted his ability to
do it justice and carried it to his wife,
and she proved it to be a ease of in
sanity.”