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Newspaper Page Text— -PUBLISHED BY — ■' r * 3s rr. x.. okAJxrxTj EDITORS. AND PROPRIETORS, At Two Dollars Ter Annum, CASH IN ADVANCE. SUP"3pci'imen Copies Sent Freoon AppllaiUoii.'WO From the Kansas City Times. HORRIBLE. A Full Account of the Bender Butcheries in Kansas.' JSTO. 35. ATHENS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1873. OLD SERIES-VOLUME LI. NEW SERIES-VOLUME li Mr. Keefer says the scene of the horrible tradegy is one mile east and two miles south of Morehead station, and six miles northeast of Cherrvvale. The house is situated in a beautiful val ley, surrounded on the southeast and north by a range of low hills, and in fair view of the L. L. and G. railroad and many farm houses, though not nearer than half a mile to any one. The house is about sixteen by twenty, shingle roof, and neither ceiled nor plastered. The Render family consisted of four persons, father, mother, son and daughter. The age of the father was sixty-three years, the mother sixty, son twenty-seven and daughter twenty- four. The son is described as a strong muscular man. The family arc pro fessed spiritualists, and the daughter claims supernatural powers, in that she can heal the sick, restore sight to the blind, and also that she could give definite information of robberies, mur ders, etc. The following is a copy of Miss Ren der’s advertisement : PROF. MISS KATE RENDER can heal all sorts of diseases; can cure blindness, fits, deafness and all such diseases; also deaf and dumbness. Residence fourteen miles east of In dependence, on the road from Inde pendence to Osage Mission, one and one-half miles southeast of Morehead’s stat ion. June 18, 1872. Katie Render. This ‘"Katie” was a red-faced young woman of exceedingly bad reputa tion. The following is a partial list of the victims of this mysterious family. The last of them was Dr. York, of Inde pendence, a highly respected citizen, whose mysterious disappearance created so much feeling that large parties went in search of him. lie was traced to Render’s house, where they said he took dinner and then left for Indepen dence, but no suspicion rested upon them. Rut the weight of guilt was heavy, and the large number in search alarmed the family, and they left the house without removing anything, drove their team to Thayer and left it, where it was taken a few days after by the shcriti of that county. It was about the 7th of April when they disappear ed. They took the northward bound train at Thayer. There being no suspicion resting up on these (juiet, unobtrusive Germans, and they not having been very socia ble and having but few visitors, it was not known that they had abandoned their home for nearly four weeks, and when the discovery was made, it was found that their calves and hogs were starved to death in the lots. These discoveries at once awakened suspicion, 4pd search was commenced in a small orchard one hundred and fifty feet south of the house. The surface had bee:: carefully plowed and harrowed by the Renders before their departure; but the body of Mr. York hail been buried so recently that the heavy rains and time had settled the ground around the grave so that the outlines of the grave were distinctly visible, and a few hours’ work unearthed these horrible crimes. Dr. York’s body lieing found, fur ther search was made by thrusting a sharp pointed iron rod into the earth, which soon developed the fact that there were many more graves on this half acre of ground, and by nightfall eight bodies in all were exhumed, of which the following is partial list, so far ns they could be distinctly identi fied : W. F. McGrouty, of the One-hun dred and twenty-third Illinois infant ry, Company D; Drown, Ilenry McKenzie, of Hamilton county, Indi ana, and a Mr. Lonchore and his little girl. The latter had recently buried his wife, and was about starting to Iowa The scene was too horrible to give even a faint description of. Seven bodies in various stages of decompose tion were lying on the ground by the side of their open graves, their skulls broken in ami their throats cut from ear to ear, except the girl, eighteen months old, who must have been stran gled or else thrown into her grave alive. •She was in full dress, as iier grand mother had dressed her that morning. She was in the bottom of the grave and her father lying upon her. The child’.- body showed no marks of vio- leiue. The manner in which they ac- »>mplished these terrible deeds was : Dn the house was painted the ^tpi ‘‘Groceries,” hut they kept notli- i'W wines. This sign culled mi - U ' r v ' ct ' n ' 3 - In the floor near the . i’;', " as :i l fap door, two feet square, I'l* 0 * into a rude hole in the lit ton.,’ T'V“ k’ ut deep, six feet wide The •iri'i llrt . e * Cel at the bottom, .show mu' ° Ut ^ o| to* house did not i orril l ‘i 7" "* , ‘ XcaV: 'tion. Into this i ‘ <»;riUe hok were plunged the un(or . in davlii llnM T J lho J n tl,ey ,uunlcred hrciL-io.?, * lam| uers used for used l.v 5 1L S £ u k " ertl such as are and ,h k,° n f takers on our streets, es l un „ 7 e ' art about twenty inch- foumUiiat th! 0 " n Ka, “ i,l4tion lt ' vas ",1 O n f^' vcre oli broken showing n ,K l ‘ t sale of the head, been done 1 ^ d<!! i |ierute dee< ^ s have " T al, .v a right-handed man. ■'vui tui, pi„2 fiuq . ,1 y >»*° is intense. Every one is confident that half is not yet unearthed. The work of searching the premises 1 still goes on, and what may yet be de veloped non# can tell, but the people are prepared for anything. In an old Bible which was found in the house and on the family record- page ' was written in German the following memoranda: “Big slaughter day, January eight (8),” and another which read, “Hell departed.” These were interpreted by a German citizen who was present yesterday. A Catholic prayer-book was also found in the house, which contained the following, written in German: Johanna Bender, born July 30, 1848. John Gcbardt came to America July 1,18—.” A DETECTIVE AFTER THE BENDER FAMILY. Beers himself has assumed the dif ficult task of hunting down the four members of the Bender family. lie succeeded in tracing them until they left the State, and then had an inter view with the Governor of Kansas, who authorized him to go ahead and hunt down the murderers, regardless of ex pense. With this understanding, he started and arrived in St Louis yesterday, having followed a clear trail to this place. The Benders left Kansas with about SI 0,000, and Beers thinks that they have gone straight to the seaboard with the intention of hiding across the ocean. He will follow as fast as the trail can be picked up. Chief McDonough will render everv assistance 1.1c. ax oliTday book. oeen % nave and the skill show !° V, u .* c ' nomllfj , work and the neatness " it U *| traces of their cr;.,,, . a\\ tl»e best evidence IhriTn 101 !* 1 0,lt ’ 7/ hundred persons were a L S'" LAUdllEKISJIS. A Western paper speaks of a duel between two “jack&sperated individ uals.” A cotemporary calls his items “Nits,” to show that he.gets them out of his own head. A Delawaro Judge fined a lawyer only one dollar for calling him “ an old rhinoceros.” Dcs Moines spotsmen report spot without end.” What, Moines ducks have? ducks then, do Ties possi- Thc editor of the Winnsboro, S. C., Xetes has b^pn shown a day book kept bv a merchant of Winnsboro nearly a hundred years ago, from which we ex tract sundry items peculiar to the times. The names of some of them will no doubt be vividly brought to mind by some of their descendants of the third and fourth generations now living amongst us, viz. * Thursday, July 4, 1790. General Minor Winn, Dr. 4 pin*, of rum, 7d. Colonel Kincaid, to powder for his company, 2s. 9d. John Akins, fir., to 1 gallon of rum, 8s. Cr. by cash and punkins, os. Mrs. Montgomery, to 1 yard mourn ing ribbon, her husband being dead, 10.1. Rev. Mr. Whitaker, his order for 4 pint of gin, Did. Robert Barkley, .Sr., 100 Tax, 7d. George Harrison, to lOd. paid the Taylor for mending your breeches torn at the parade. ‘ John Martin, to ginger cakes and cider, 2s. lid. Maj. Henry Moore, to A pint rum, 7d. Jonathan Hollis, to gin and sugar, with nutmeg, 4d. Major Winn, to 2 pounds of kaugh- phy, for 2s. 5d. Joseph Carr, 1 bridcl and sadcl. .Cl 10.1. John Woodward, Sr., 4 pint ein, lOd. “ 1 David R. Evaus, 1 pint rum, Is., it being hot. John Robertson, (the Irishman,) 1 doz. buttons, 7d. Rev. Sami. Young, 4 pint gin, 7<1. Thomas Means", 4 pint gin, 10d. John Ellison, 1 lb tobacco, 7d., and pipes, -Id. Cash receives this day £2 7s. -Id. Cash paid out for hauling from Charlestown and Granby £1 2d. Balance on hand ip silver, 5s. 4d. It would seem from above that rum was the favorite article of trade, and the entire business must have been on a very moderate profit, some articles being at a much less figure than that at the present day. Among the customers too, we are informed, there was one memlier of Congress, one landgrave, two or three Generals, one of whom owned nearly all the town, and who subsequently donated 100 acres to found the origi nal Mt. Zion College, two ministers of the gospel, who indulged in rum, and several who filled important offices af terwards in Fairfield. A traveler coming from the Central depot yesterday, stopped for a moment to examine a coat hanging in front of a clothing store. The proprietor rush ed out and asked: “Wouldn’t yon try on some coats?” “I dunno hut I would,"responded the traveler, consult ing his time-killer, and he went in and began work. No matter how often he found his fit, he called for more coats, and after lie had tried on about thirty lie looked at his watch and walked off, saving: “I won’t charge a cent for what I’ve done; hang a man who won’t oblige another when he can do it! If I’m ever around this way agin, and you’ve got any more coats to tiy on I’ll do all 1 can to help you!”—Detroit Free Press mouse crop, and procuring a i knife, mode.in incision, and drew a dish-el*h. That’s just like a A Lexington, Mass., owner of hens noticed that one of them had an iin- and procuring a sharp drew forth just like a lien. It will eat any thing it can swallow, and swallow anything it can get hold of. It would swallow a fence if it was loose and then step around back of the house to see if dinner was ready. It is with hons ns with story papers, every thing is in their necks. Mrs. Partington cannot understand why diamonds should he considered as vears, y„t all'’the u, 5 n . two worth their weight in carrots. Still, lH!cn^: wh hi ul H« J'avr - - - lieing an enterprising woman, she lias decided to devote her garden to the raising of the. vegetable. Lciaruincr that the. King of Portugal has a yef low diamond weighing sixteen hundred and eighty carrots, she hopes next year to raise a crop which will onablo her to become the possessor of tho precious jewel. The Fort Vally Mirror remarks that some young ladies are as hard to un derstand as the new postal law.” An Iowa merchant -Won't* advertise in the papers, but paints on the fences, “Go two Allen’s for ycr dri gods.” A Danbury bride received among her wedding gifts a receipted bill of eight dollars for gate hinges from her father. - A youth who wears the latest style of sleeve studs cannot be expected to bring up a scuttle of coal while his mother is around. A Massachusetts man lately sold seventy-three dozen patent medicine bottles, all of which had been emptied in his own family. Chickasaw county, Iowa, has just received its first piano, and one of the hoys there denounced it as “the all- firedest fiddle you ever seed.” . A Rochester, N. Y.. woman worked three hours to throw the freshet out of the kitchen window as fast as it came in under the door, but she finally gave it up in disgust. “Who dat hit me?” “Where’s dat lantern?” were the exclamations of an astonished Elmira darkey, after be ing thrown something like a hundred feet by a locomotive. A Florida alderman sold his vote for an oroide chain and a circus tiekit. and his friends are naturally ashamed and indignant. They know that he miirht. have obtained a jack-knife in addition by simply asking for it. Out of forty girls at a boarding school none of them could tell how many years George Washington was President, but they knew to a cent the cost of any kind of bustle in the market. A New Hampshire paper says flint “death has again turned a flip flap and come down flat-footed in our midst, and snatched from among us one of the heat advertiser and subscribers we ever had. A Troy dentist became emotionally insane while repairing a front tooth for a pretty woman, and kissed her. She told her husband, and he went around the next day and borrowed S500 of tho dentist on long time. An inquiring man hereabouts thrust his fingers into a horse’s mouth to see hoyv many teeth the horse had. The horse closed his month Jn see how many fingers the man had. The curiosity of each was fully satisfied. A negro preacher observed to his hearers at the close of his sermon as folloivs: “My obstinacious bredreu, I find it am no more use to preach to you dan it am for a grasshopper to wear kneebuckles.” A woman out West interfered with her brother’s courtship, and begged him to stay at home evenings. He waited until the evening when she ex pected her own lover and com plied, and she says that fraternal affec tion is a heartless mockery. “Men are what Women make Them,” is the singular title of a new book. It may be true, but yve have seen some dreadfully poor specimens of the man ufactured article, yvhich fact renflects badly either upon the material or the maker. A Frenchman, soliciting relief of an English ladv, said gravely to his fair hearer: “Madame, I nevnirc lieg, but dat I have von vife vid several small family, dat is groyving very large, and nossing to make der bread out of but the perspiration of my oyvn cyc- hroyv.” The temperance cause in Kentucky has Ivon somewhat set back by the an nouncement that one of the few water drinkers in that State has just discover ed at the bottom of his well the body of a neighbor yvlio disappeared four years ago; and the majority of the people have resolved to stick to whis key and let wells alone. A promising youth yvlio had boon playing “mumble peg” in bus pa’s cushionod chair yesterday, was attrac ted by the music in the street and ran off, leaving his barloyv on its back. The old gentleman shortly afterwards raised his coat tail, and calmnly sat down. But he didn’t sit long; lie arose suddenly with a yell that gave rise to report the Modocs had escaped. An Elm street boy smoked his first pipe on Sunday, and came home very sick. He didn’t know yvlrnt was the matter with him, but his mother did. She gave him tyvo quarts of boncset tea, and put a quarter of a yard of plaster on his breast, and c une mus tard drafts on his feet. Then she put him to bed and darkened the room, and fed him ou a new kind of balsam till Monday morning, when she avowed he had got the best of that Ijphus attack. In a recent lecture on the Sandwich Islands, Mark Twain said: “In fitly vears the native race will be extinct. Their color isofarioh dark brown. They are not in the least vicious, but gentle and harmless. The women wear a single loose gnrmeut that fall straight from the nock to the heels. In the up country the men yvear—well, usually they wear a sinilo, or a pair of spectacles, or something of that kind. They are not proud; do not care to make any display.” • Knofol) Becomes a Mason. I flutter myself I understood* some thing about secret societies. I have had a passion for that "sort- of thing ever since I was old enough to tell lies. I have scouted around pretty exten sively among the different organiza- tions. I’ve been an Orange-man, and a Fenian, and a Good Templar, and a counterfeiter, and also a Knight of Malta. I have belonged to the Sons of Temperance, and Young Men’s Christian Association, and the Band of Hope, and a band of robbers. I’ve been into everything, and I thought I knew everything almost. But I didn’t. Three months ago I became infatuated with Masonry, and since I ; joined that vrarthsdigHUB^ have discover ed several things connected therewith that outsiders don’t know just a pretty good deal about. Now Mr. Editor, I I propose making these secrets public, not out of compassion for niv fellow men yvlio may lie tending towards Ma sonry and act as a warning, and so on, because I haven’t got a spark of human kindness in my breast, and would ra ther see. every mother’s-son of them put to the torture than not; but be cause I have got a spite against the fellows who initiated me, who made tlie irons too hot, and the goat too frisky, and treated me with a rough ness generally the occasion did not warrant. Before fulminating my narrative, I will state for the benefit of those who don’t know that Masonry is about six hundred, thousand years old. It was old rvheu the fraternity got into trouble at the tower of Babel, and it was old when Adam first put on his apron as Grand Master of the Eden Lodge. As a more convincing proof of its an tiquity I will just mention that a par ty of miners, the other day, in their excavations, came upon the petrified rernaines of a Masonic Lodge, with the members in their places and all com plete, and eminent geologist who have examined the fossils are ot the opinion that these bodies have been imbeded in the rocks for more than fifteen thousand years. On the evening I was to be initiated I made iny will and took a most af fectionate leave of my family. Thus prepared I started for the Lodge, ac companied by Brother Joliu Smith, S. It. S. P. T., yvlio yvas to “ see me through.” We had no difficulty get ting past the first entrance, but when we knocked at the second a fat little fellow looked out through around hole in the door, and put this startling in- stioatory to Brother .Smith: “ (Jhe- texciironhighcockalorum ?” to yvhich Brother Smith replied cheerfully: “ Nix-my-dolly-whae-doo.” The little fellow then .-aid : “ lTodzestcoinpbriti- dytumtuni,” and my conductor giving a satisfactory answer, were were per- miited to enter. Before I had time to look around me a longlegged fellow knocked me over with a club ; he then stood me on my feet and an other ma rauder made a rush at me and brought me doyvn again. After I had under gone this exhilarating exercise for about five minutes they stretched me out on a bench and examined my teeth, pinched my muscles, shoved cayenne pepper up my nose, poured melted lead in my trowsers pockets and pulled hairs out of the back of my nock with red hot pinchers, with a view, I suppose, to make me feel em barrassed at limine. When I came to my senses I yvas alone in the ante-room of the Lodge. It was a lively and cheerful apartment. A couple of crocodiles were amusing themselves in a corner and a few full grown rattlesnakes were practicing the flying trapeze on the stovepipe. The furniture consisted chiefly of a half a dozen mummies, the skeleton of Cap tain Kidd, Lucrctia Borgia, Guy Fawkes, Jack the Gianf Killer, Oliver Cromwell tho Wandering Jew, Wil liam the Conqueror, Christopher Col umbus and Dick Turpin : Aging ma chine, three barrels of gunpowder and a remarkable healthy and well-develop ed wild cat. Just then half a dozen pi rates, clad in aprons and sashes, rush ed into the room with a whoop. Oue of them, the biggest and ugliest, who appeared to be the chief, ordereiLthe attendants, in a voice of thunder, to trot out the animal. The attendants disappeared, but immediately reap peared, lending an iron-clad goat, a regulator double decker, with sixteen horns, a pair of wings, and seven or eight tails stuck all over him. My eyes were bandaged, and I was told to mount. I said, “ Gentlemen, if you’ll excuse me I would rather not. I’lTT not accustomed to going up in a bal loon ; besides I’ve got an engagement down town. My wife wants to see me particularly. I’ll lie back in a few minutes; I rather think my house is on fire, but I’ll be back in few .” Before I could finish niv sentence I was seized from behind and planted firmly astried of the infernal goat. •Somebody then said, let’s go; and away we went. I’ve been through a great many perilous scenes; I’ve been down jin a railway collision, and] up in a steamboat explosion; I’ve fallen down three flights of stairs, and walked out of a fourth story window, but this goat excusion was a .little ahead of them all. When I came to reflect on the matter I wonder that I ever canie out alive. The furious beast kicked and screamed and rolled over and turned back sommersaults and frout sominersaults, and drove me against the ceiling and underneath the chairs, till tho bandage gave way and I had to let go. Tlio goat vanished up .the chimney in a blue flame, aiid I found myself in the centre of the Lodge room with about fifty Masons aprons, aud nothing else, dunein_ war dance around mo. The rest of the members were standing on their heads in'the different corners, all but in front 1 of chief’s desk, who thus ad dressed rife: “Brother Knobb, you ape now one-of us. You are a mem ber of an\institution that has lasted over threoamillion years. You are unperviougf to mundane influences. You are water-proof and fire-proof; you are a*F proof! You can walk through tnt fiver or sit on a red hot stove with'fcjmity. Mortal man can not harm you, and the devil himself must curUm his tail and walk off at your apdK*. Be virteous, Mr. Knobb, nr.j you will be happy.” I then a^spmed a sash and apron, f Knobb, Jr. Robejs^ E. Lee.—In the Edin burg .Review for April, an article on Roller* E. Lee will beread with deep interest. It is a grand tribute' from an unbiased source. • For its estimate of the general place that Lee is to hold American history, the following sentence will suffice as well as a vol ume : “The day will come when the evil passions of the great cival strife will sleep in oblivion, and North and South will do justice to each other’s motives and forget each other’s wrongs. Then history will speak with clear voice of the deeds on either side, and citizens of the whole Union do justice to the memory of the dead, and place above all others the name of the great chief of whom we have written. In strategy mighty pin bnttle terrible; in adversi ty, as in prosperity, a hero indeed, with the simple devotion to duty and the rare purity of the ideal Christian knight he joined all the kingly quali ties of a leader of men. It is a wonder- ous future, indeed, that lies before America, but in her annals of years to come, as in those of the past, there will be found few names the t can rival in unsullied luster that of the heroic defender of his native Virginia, Rob ert Edward Lee.” AST" The Detroit Free Press relates an incident which occurred on the re turn of an excursion party from that city. Soon after the boat left Toledo, tlie steward was approached by an ex cited individual, who asked him if he was the captain. The steward replied in the negative, at the same giving his rank. “Have you the power to put a man out of the cabin?” inquired the stran ger- “Well, yes, if he is disorderly, I have.” replied the steward. “Well. sir,” look in here and see them, will you ?” said the stranger, leading the official 'round to the door. The steward looked in upon the motley group and replied that he saw nothing out of the way. “ You don’t, eh? Don’t you see a man in there hugging a woman?” “Well, yes,” replied the steward; “but what of that? Hasn’t a fellow the right to embrace his wife ? “That’s what I want you to run him off for,” replied the stranger, dancing around; “that’s my wife, and I’ve stood it so long that I’ve got mad!” Hm~A Presbyterian gentleman was engaged in marriage "to a Baptist lady. They were sitting together on the eve of their contemplated union, when the gentleman remarked: “I have been looking forward with sweet anticipa tions in our future life.” “What are those events?” inquired the lady. “The first is, when you and I shall lie united in holy matrimony,” said the gentleman. “And pray wlmt is the second?” continued the lady. “When our first child shall be babtized,” re sponded tho gentleman. “My child shall not he liaptizcd,” said the lady. “My child shall be baptized,” replied tlie gentleman. “I have only to say, in conclusion,” remarked the lady, “your child shall never be my child. Good evening, sir.” And she left.— Itcligious Herald. If reports are to lie credited, the Vienna exhibition has not so far prov ed successful. The Viennese were in too much of a hurry to empty the pockets of strangers, and the reports of their exorbitant charges spread far and wide. The hills of fare at the hotels have been increasing from day to day, a dollar and a half being the latest charge for a tolerable breakfast, and twenty cents for getting boots blacked. Americans will be interest ed in the announcement that the pro prietor of a hotel built expressly for trans-Atlantic visitors openly avows his intention to get all his money back dur ing the session of the exhibition. Ex tortion seems to be the order of the day in Vienna, aud after all it may not have been all native corruption that in fected our commissioners. The Colored Brethercn, according to a Washington dispatch, are gather ing like crows in a corn fi.dd round Grant, since his return from the West, tnsisting upon some signal official re cognition of their race, by an appoint ment far in advance of any yet given to a negro. A‘ sable Chief Justice would perhaps meet the case. They have arrested Mr. Applegate out iu Nebraska merely for having three wives, stealing a horse, forging a note and setting fire to a barn! If Nebraska is going to allow a man abso lutely no liberties at all, how does she expect to attract immigration to her shores ?—Courier-Journal. The elections over the State of In diana on Thursday last were generally in favor of the Democracy. In many Republican strongholds the change was so marked that it took the form of disaster to the Republican cause. The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree arc meant to symbolize the large way which God loves to do pleasant things. SHOCKING TRAGEDY; Annie Hennessey, a Yonag- Married wo man, in a fit of Melancholy, Murders Twooi her Children-The Bodies Fonnd in a Wash tub Stripped Naked-Parti culars of the Horrible Occurrence. One of the most sickening tragedies that has occurred in tbis city for years was enacted last night in the tenement house, No. 87 Third street. Mrs. Hennessey, who occupied a back room on the fifth floor, in a fit of melancho ly or puerperal mania, killed her two little sons, George, aged three years, and Francis, aged five months. Ab^ut eleven o’clock last evening in telligence was brought to the Seven teenth ‘ So quietly had the crime (if crime it may be called under the circumstances) been committed that no one knew of it until the husband returned ; and even after the arrest had been made and the bodies taken most of the residents of the tenement house had no idea of the fearful tragedy that had been en acted in their midst. A reporter of the Herald, who made inquiries in a saloon next to the tenement house, was astonished to find that the people in the saloon had no idea of what hap pened, as there had been no excite ment or unusual noise in the locality. 1 The stove in the kitchen was levered with fragments of hair and burned flesh, as was the floor around which was also thickly sprinkled with blood. :s Key-Note.—The oth er day a gawky youth from the rural districts stopped at a button and thread stand on Fifth street to view the won ders there exposed for sale, and became interested in a mouth organ. It was not a “Jew’s harp,” although an Isra elite was the vendor thereof, but a fif teen cent lmimonicon. “Verdigris” placed it almost out of sight in his old- MiPMMr Jill had been called to the tenement house above mentioned, when he found the two dead bodies of the children in a washtub and the mother sitting at the edge of the bed in a state of insanity. He immediately, finding that he could be of no use, went to the station house and informed the police of the terrible occurrence. The Captain and a cou- pie of officers instantly repaired to the fashioned fire place of a°mouth, and scene of the tragedy. The house*is a ] breathed his soul out sweetly there, most respectable one in the exterior. His eyes were almost closed, his head and is situated in a very quiet neigh-1 dropped to one side, his whole appear- borhooil. The people in the vicinity! ance showed he had surrender- AdTcrtlscmonti, from (hla dtls, imertad at One Dollar per Square (of one inoh) fur the int Insertion,, and Seventy-fire Cents per Square fcc each additional insertion. AST Funeral Notices and QbUuarie* charged 9at at regular Advertising rates. * ' ' ” " ■ar No sxtrichsrje for Locator Spoclsl ♦olnam, ■9* Transient Advertbementscash. Other bills, collected artsy ninety days. • W Liberal contracts made- for any period, over ono month. THE ROLL OF CHIEF JUSTICE. It is noticed, in connection with the death of Chief Justice Chase, that no man has been promoted directly from associated to Chief Justice of the Su preme Court. The first Chief Justico- was John Ray. Whilst he was Chief Justice he noccpted the mission to Eng land, and held both offices for a year. On his return from England he vacat ed both offices and became Governor bf New York. John Rutledge, of South Carolina, who Had been an As- Boeiatc Justice, but resigned to become Chief Justice in his own State, was nominated to the Cliief Justiceship by President Washington, but was rejecter! by the Senate. The next Chief Jua- The constant use of tobacco and the cardaverous looking buccaneer who] whisky for one hundred and five years seemed to be the head of the depart- (killed Wm. Collage, of St Joe, Mo. ment. So onthey left off dancing aiid I — marched round the room chanting an { True, time flies fast, but every inspiring dirge. I was then hauled up musician of any notf can beat time. had not beard of the matter when the police came, and hi consequence there was not the slightest excitement when the police arrived. The Captain pro ceeded up stairs, accompanied by the Doctor and the officers, and the fear ful spectacle met his view. Lying in tho washtub, within two feet of the stove, were the bodies of the two INNOCENT AND UNFORTUNATE CIIID D11EN. They were completely naked, and so mutilated that their features were not recognizable. The flesh had been burned from their faces and shoulders, the eyes had been roasted from their sockets, and the lips of the little one were awfully disfigured and swollen to an unnatural size. The unconscious cause of this misery sat upon the bed without speech or motion, evidently not having the slightest idea of the murders she had perpetrated. AH ef forts to make her conscious of the oc currence were unavailing; her features wore on an expression of the deepest melancholy, but she manifested neith er regret for, or knowledge of, the death of her children. The bodies were covered over with a white cloth and removed to the station house, and the mother was arrested by Captain Walsh. The facts of the fear ful affair are as follows: George Hen nessey, the husband of the woman and father of the children, came home from his work about half-past seven o’clook. He is by trade a shoemaker, and works with his father on the cor ner of Nassau and Fulton streets. The appartnieuts occupied by the Ilen- nc.'Seys, as stated .before, tuc on’the top floor of the house and consist of three rooms, a kitchen a sitting-room, and a bed-room. The kitchen is the outer room, and when Hennessey came to this door he found it locked. He knocked repeatedly," but received no rcsjionse for more than half an hour. At last the door was opened by Mrs. Hennessey, and, by the dim twilight, the. first that met his view ivas the. tub containing the bodies of the children. His wife clutched him by the arm, and in an unearthly voice said, “George, at the same time pointing (p the tub, the children are all right—they are happy now.” She repeated this sev eral times-and then said, “I will soon lie happy too.” The feelings of the unfortunate husband at the pitiable avowal, and the thought of the fate that had overtaken his innocent off spring, can ho better imagined than described. He was almost stunned by the catastrope, and for more than an hour could scarcely persuade' himself that it was not A FEARFUL DREAM. When he had somewhat recovered he thought that it would be well to sum mon assistance, and was about going out when the poor woman clung to him and endeavored to draw him back. She seemed to be apprehensive of some dread calamity; hut after the first mention of the children she did not again allude to them, and seemed to have forgotten them completely. One of the strangest features of the case was the fact that the eldest child of tlie woman, u little girl aged five, was peacefully sleeping iu bed in the inner room untouched. How it was that the life of this child was spared while the others were sacrificed it was impossible to say; but tbe people of the house say that she had been playing upon tlie street up to a lute hour in the afternoon, and from the appear ance of the bodies and their coldness, it was evident that the children had been killed in the early part of the day. When Mr. Hennessey returned the fire hud burned completely out in the store, and there was no light in the room, save wlmt was afforded by the dying day. When the husbaud had succeeded in pacifying the wretch ed woman he was about to take the J ittle girl out of the room and go for issistance, but she would not let the. c^iild be disturbed. From the manner in which tlie bodies were disfigured the doctors suppose that death had been caused by. | 6TANGULATION AND STABBING, after which tbe dead bodies had been roasted on the stove. Whether they had been denuded of their clothing be fore being murdered or hot could not be ascertained, but they had been stripped before being put upon the stove, as the garments were found.iu a corner of the room without being sing ed. The apartment was pervaded with the sickening smell of burned flesh which remained in it after the tub and its bloody contents had been removed The people living in the tenement house—and it is thickly inhabited— heard no unusual noise during the day’, the house not being in the least disturbed by the crying of children. ed to the power of music. How long he would have continued no man can say—probably until hunger or night had driven him to seek food or shelter ; but tbe cruel tuner of nimble pennies cut short his dream by a demand for pay for his instrument. “Virdi” laid it down with a long lingering look, as though he thought, “can such be and overcome us like a summer dream,” and hied him—i. c., he progressed in his cowhides on his way. There was a soul attuned to harmony in that chap. If any base citizen wants to enjoy a first-class sensation, Jet him borrow that fellow for an evening,. and take him to the opera or a concert His eyes would stick out beyond the lobs ter guage, and doubtless could be remov ed without recalling him from the charmed realm of harmonious sounds. Shocking Barbarity in Africa. —In reference to the late treaty rati fied between Bonny and Opobo, on the West Coast of Africa, a barbarous custom was observed on the 1st of March. It appears that the King Ja Ja, of* Opobo, sent up to Bonny a slave to be killed, as a binding ratifica tion of the treaty lately entered into. This custom is called chopping Ju-ju, and is the most horribly revolting. The poor victim is first marked in a straight lino from the erowu of the head down the front of the body with a sharp knife, cutting deep into the flesh, lie is then held by two or three stout fellows, and chopped in two halves; his cntrals are scattered about, and the Ja Ja’s Ju-Ju man, taking onc-half of the body, throws it into the ebbing tide; the iBonny Ju-Ju man taking the other half, and doing the same. King George of Bonny endea vored to prevent this sacrifice of human life, ami offered cows instead, but gross superstition still reigns paramount there. As an instance of the fearfully ignorant state of the na tives on this part of the coast, notwith standing the number of missionary es tablishments there, this poor man, before being sacrificed, was walking about Bonny for three or four days quite indifferent as to his fate, though he knew it, blindly solacing himself with the idea that when he met those again who were going to kill him now he would do the same to them, Modoc Women.—The female Mo doc i3 thus portrayed by the corres pondent of the San Fran cisco Chroni-' cle: ‘.‘You do us grave injustice in remarks about killiug squaws. They were killed in the fight—one at least— and the only one killed by soldiers. They fight like devils, load guns, and are as dangerous as the bucks, and should share the same fate. No squaws have been killed out of battle. Four aro now fed and protected at this camp, taken since the fight was end ed. They will not be harmed, though at the first chance they will flee to the Modocs with arms and ammunition if The Washington Capital has been advertising for some time past for back numbers of that paper. As a stately lady was passing along the broad aven ues of Washington the other day, as that journal relates, the string that held the paporial department of her file of the Capital was recovered from the sidewalk. - The editors, of that pa per say that they now have all the back numbers they need. IA view of the fact some women in Massachusetts are praying the Legisla ture of that State to legalize polygamy, the women of Arizona, who are few’ and far between, are demanding a law allowing a plurality of husbands. England proposes to honor the mem ory ot Stnueu’all Jackson, to which end certain leading members of Parlia ment have contributed to a mouument, which has just been finished, and is to be sent over here and placed over his remains. ice,was Oliver Ellsworth, of Connec ticut, and a Senator from that Stato- at the time of his appointment. He presided in the Supreme Court less- than a year, and then, without resign ing, accepted the French mission, aud held both offices until the negotiation of the Freneh treaty, when lie resigned both. John Marshall, of Virginia, who was then Secretary of State, was appointed by President Adams Chief Justice in January, 1801. He re mained in the Cabinet until the close of President Adams’ administration ia March of the same year, when he took, bis scat on the bench and filled the po sition of Cliief Justice till bis death ilk 1838. President Jackson appointed Roger B. Taney as his successor, and lie filled tlie position until his death in 1864, when Air. Chase, then Secretary of tlie Treasury, was appointed by Mr. Lincoln. Although Mr. Chase’s- incumbency extended through only eight years, he occupied the position longer than any other of the Chief Justices except, Marshall and Taney, whose joint terms extended through sixty-four years. THE ORPHAN BOY. _ The Hon. A. H. Stephens, of Geor gia, in an address at a meeting in Al exandria, for the benefit of the Orphan Aslyum aud Free Schools of that city, related the following anecdote: “ A poor little boy, on a cold night in January, with no home or roof to shelter his head, no paternal or mater nal guardian or guide to protect or di rect him on his way, reached at night fall the house of a rich planter, who took him in, fed, lodged, and sent him on his way with his blessing. These kind attentions cheered his heart, and inspired him with fresh courage to bat tle with the obstacles of life. Years rolled round ; Providence led him on ; lie had reached the legal profession; his host had died; the cormorants that pray on the substance, of man had formed a conspiracy to get from tho widow here estates. She sent for the nearest counsel to commit her cause to him, and that counsel proved to be the orphan boy years before welcomed and entertained by her deceased husband. The stimulus of a warm and tenacious gratitude was now added to tho ordin ary motives connected with the pro fession. He undertook her cause with a will not easy tube resisted; he gained it; tlie widow’s estates were secured to her in perpetuity;” and Mr. Stephens added, with an emphasis of Emotion that sent its electric thrill throughout the house, “ that orphan boy stands before you."—Harper’s Weekly. ' An Effectual Recipe.—Tho Country Gentleman suggests a way to prevent a hen from eating their eggs. It is to fill an egg with a solution of pepper, and put the egg hark in tlie nest. A Danbury man has tried tbis, and says it works like a charm. Ho put a pretty good dose of pepper in the egg and placed it in the nest of the criminal. Pretty soon the hen came in and took hold. It was a brindle animal with long legs, and somcwiiat conceited. It dipped in its bill and inhaled the delicacy. Then it came out doors. It didn’t gallop out, we don’t n ean, but it came out—caqie out to look at the scenery, and see if it was going to rain. Its mouth was wide open, and the feathers on the top of its head stood straight up. Then it commenced to go around the yard like a circus horse. Once iu a while a wliile it ,, , - .... would stop and push out one leg in a they could get a chance to steal any. tone of astonishment, and th£n cry In the event ot another fight, they • - —* would return to our lines to do the same thing over again. Remember, they are not white women, but fiends, guilty of torturing and murdering everv wounded soldier who fell in their haiids, and at horribly mutilating the dead. Remember the fate of the sol dier of the Twenty-first Infantry, wounded and left on the field of bnttle on the 17th of January. Tbe squaws tortured him in every conceivable way all night long, until death put an end to his sufferings in the morning. This they admitted to bo so during the in terval employed in making peace ef forts. Don’t waste any sympathy on such fiends, for it will be Impossible to expect a soldier to spare ono of them on the field.” “fire, and then start on again. The other hens came out to look on. Soon the hens from the neighbors came over the" fence, and took up a position of observation. . , It was quite evident the (lerfbrmKSfba was something new and unique to them. There is a good deal of human nature in hens. When they saw this hen dance around and have all the fun to itself, and heard it shout “fire,” and couldn’t see the conffagation them selves, they filled up with wrath, and of one accord sprang upon it, and be fore the Danbury man could interfere, the brindle hen with tlie long legs was among the the recipe is effecthaf. were. He says Governor Smith on Water Transportation.—The Governor of Georgia seems to be zealously enlisted in tbe cause of cheap water transporta tion. At the recent Transportation Convuition, held in New York eity on the 6th instant, he was made ohe of the Vice l’reident of the organization. A dress suddenly snapped, and soon a read from him, regretting hfs — - - - -• - - - inability to lie present, and expressing the opinion that cheap transportation can or ly be secured by lines of water communication. The letter concludes as follows: “li is no question equal imortance tily second you in your patriotic desire that neither party ties nor sectional jealousies bo suffered to interfere with or impede the successful prosecution of the grand undertaking. It would give me great .pleasure to see you &t the convention at Atlanta on the 20tli of May, accompaied by such delegation as the convention of the 6th of 1 lect.—Savannah Advertisemnte ay so- Corn, Corn, Corn 500 Bushels just received by Weatherly & Co.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Northeast Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1872-1875, May 23, 1873, Image 1