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Starving Himself to Death.
The Strange Freaks of a Georgia Convict—He
will Neither Eat nor Work.
From Mr. A. J. Twiggs, we learn
that Pimonti, the Italian who was con¬
victed of attempting to murder Joseph
Guiffrida, with a hatchet, and sentenced
to ten years at hard labor in the peni¬
tentiary, refuses to work and has eaten
nothing since last Monday morning.
At that time he ate a hearty breakfast
and worked afterwards for about ten
minutes, but then threw down the
spade and declared that he would work
no more. He was tied up and severely
whipped, hut this had no effect what¬
ever. He laughed during the infliction
oi Uie punishment and flogged told his guards
it was no use. He was a second
and a third time, but with the same re¬
sult. Mr. Twiggs, seeing that Pimonti
was determined in his course, and that
punishment availed whip him nothing, told the
keeper that not he to does intend any more.JIle
says not to eat
again unless he is given a new trial.
He is getting very weak and cannot live
much longer if he perseveres. Mr.
Twiggs asked him Friday afternoon if
he did not suffer from hunger. “No,”
he said, “hurt first three days ; very
nice now—nothing to hurt me.” Then,
picking fire and up a holding handful of them live coals from
the out in the
palm of his hand, he said to Mr. Twiggs,
“Can you do that?” Upon Mr. Twiggs
answering in the negative, he smiled
and continued to hold the coals until
they turned black and then tossed them
towards one of the guards, remarking
as he did so: “You hab plenty dem
when you go down stairs,” (meaning
the abode of his Satanic majesty.)
Mr. Twiggs says the smoke from the
burning skin and flesh rose up from
Pimonti’s hand while he held the fire,
hut he did not wince a particle. Mr.
Twiggs asked him if he wanted to kill
himself why he didn’t run by the
guards and then he would be shot.
“Den me go down stairs,” was the res
ply. “But won't you die if you don’t
eat anything ?" said Mr. Twiggs. “Yes,
but me no killee myself; magistrate
and guards do it,” said lie. “Christ
go into Jerusalem when he know Jews
going to crucify him; but he no killee
himself. Well, de magistrate and de
guards, dey be Jews, dey killee me.”
He insists that he didn’t have a fair
trial; that he had two “provers” who
would have sworn that Guiffrida had
threatened to kill him on sight. He
says that he doesn’t mind working ten
years, hut that a negro named Williams,
who was coi. fficted of larceny, at the
same term of court, was only sentenced
to four years. This, he contends, was
not right, as the negro’s crime was far
worse than his. He is under the im¬
pression that if he was sent to Atlanta
he would get another trial. Mr. T wl gg S
told him if he would eat he would
write to the Governor, but Pimonti
only smiled and said : “Well, you write.
Me live five qi six days longer.” “But,’
said Mr. Twiggs, “you may be dead
when the answer gets back.” “Then,” magi's
replied (Governor) Pimonti, “you tell write him to
trate and man
take no more trouble.” Mr. Twiggs
says it ia undoubtedly certain that
has not eaten a moisel since Monday
morning, lie is not at all violent, and
gives no trouble Whenever beyond his refusal to
eat or work. told that he
must go to work, be shrugs his should¬
ers and says : “Bring de strap,” mean
ing that i »e is ready and for Coustitulonu punishment ’ist.
Augusta Chronicle
Within the last six months, there
have been seven suicide cases among
Hebiews in New York, which hav® ter
reunited fatally. The increase is notable
in COmi'.l! !: with previous years,
Busiiit-s acted a an exciting e o,
Or. our occasions Domestic grier is
charged with one , and the remaining
one was due to mania.
Terrible Position.
London has been thrilled by a mur¬
derer’s exploit. Pease, a burglar, was
locked into a third class compartment
of a railway train with two warders.
The train was running from London to
Sheffield. At Peterborough he got out
of the train and was with difficulty
forced to re-enter. He then remained
quiet for a time, but when about twelve
miles from Sheffield he asked that the
windows of the carriage might be open¬
ed. This was no sooner done than the
burglar took a dive out through the
aperture. One of the warders succeed¬
ed in catching him by a foot. For two
miles he hung head downward sus¬
pended by one foot and making terrific
struggles to free himself. In vain he
wriggled, for although his captors were
unable to catch the other foot both
held him as in a vise. But one con¬
tingency they did not provide against.
Pease wore spring-sided boots, and the
one on which his fate seemingly de¬
pended came off. The burglar fell
heavily on the foot-board of the car¬
riage and rolled off on the railway.
Three miles farther on the train stop¬
ped and the warders went back to the
scene of the escape. Here they found
Pease unconscious in the snow bleed¬
ing from a wound on the head. He
was at once placed in a slow train
which was passing at the time and
conveyed to Sheffield. Daring the time
he was struggling with the wardeis
the warder who had one hand free,
and the passengers of the other com¬
partments who were witnessing the
scene from the windows of the train,
were indefatigable in their efforts to
attract the attention of the guard by
means of the communication cord, but
with no result. For two miles the un¬
fortunate man hung head downward,
and for three miles further the train
ran until it stopped at an ordinary
resting place. The incident illustrates
the worthlessness of check strings on
English railways.
Hungry and Cold.
A pale, emaciated man, coatless and
thinly clad, was taken bafore Police
Justice Kilbreth, in the Essex Market
Court, a few days ago. An officer ac
cased him of throwing a cobble stone
through one of the green lamps in front
of the Eldridge street police station.
“John Peterson is my name,” the
prisoner said, as he slowly raised his
eyes from the floor and answered the
magistrate’s “And inquiry. threw the
you stone purp¬
osely ?”
“I did.”
“Why did you do it ?”
The pallor of the man’s face gave
place to a faiat flash as he told, in
broken tones, the following story: “I
was so cold—so cold that my body was
all of a tremble; and hungry, yes 1
famished ; for I hadn’t had a meal since
the day before, when I pawned ray coat
to get it. I am in the last stages of
consumption, and I lost my place as a
clerk in a drug store on that account.
After wandering about for several days
I went to the station and begged them
to take me in. They refused. They
are already crowded, they said. I was
growing weaker from exposure and hun
ger. I lingered about the police station
until my legs would hardly support my
body. I was thinking how I could get
arrested. That was the only way I could
imagine of getting a bed and something
to eat. I found a stone in the street, 1
gathered all my strength and threw it
through the lamp.”
Justice Kilbreth sent Peterson to the
Commissioners of Charities, instead of
sentencing him to the island as a con¬
vict.— JV. Y. /Sun.
The Coming Preacher.— There has
long been, on the part of many earnest
Christians, a want felt in the direction
of the able editorial of the Examiner oi
the 30th, on the inefficiency of the min
istry as a whole—the want of directness
and courage. Meanwhile, almost every
form of error and wickedness is making;
fearful headway in our cities—insidious
and by slow degrees ground at first, but hold- TheJ
' n g every inch of takeu.
rum business, licentiousness, Sunday
^°oseness and theatre-going are bolder j
than ever, The coming preacher who
knowing to grapple the word with fail, these things surely without be j
must
Pleat ing somewhere. The success of
T, ' d * eauso makes it a necessity, the
'■ dumdl °* the earnest long tor it, ana
\ he W0 rId W1 !! force ° n us - He will
. . atones.rid noble
PU as
ueti , , ;es C manna ft Junes.
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A gentleman whose proboscis had
'suffered amputation was invited out to
tea. “My dear,” said the good woman
of the house, to her little daughter, “I
want you to be very particular and
make no remark about Mr.
nose, Gathering about well; the the table,
everyth ig was going
peepet 1 about, looked rather puzzled,
uni at last startled the table : "Ma,
why did you tell me to say nothing
about Mr. Jenkins’ nose? He hasn t
got any.”
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1879.
BY TELEGRAPH.
The Florida State Fair Opened.
Fatal Railroad Disaster in Alabama.
SHEFFIELD IRON STRIKE
TERMINATED.
Death of Gen. E. H. Chilton.
Washington, Feb. 18.—The Cabi¬
net to-day discussed the bill for re¬
stricting Chinese immigration,but there
was no indication as to whether the
President would sign or veto the meas¬
ure.
The House Appropriation Commit¬
tee to-day agreed to allow the State dollars of
Georgia seventy-two thousand Federal
interest on money loaned the
Government during the war of 1812.
Columbus, Ga., February 18.—R.
H. Chilton, Adjutant General of Gen.
R. E. Lee, and since the war President
of the Columbus Manufacturing Com¬
pany, fell dead of apoplexy sitting alone
at his desk this afternoon, aged over
sixty years.
Selma, Ala., Feb. 18.—Thr north¬
bound passenger train on the Se'ma,
Rome and Dalton Railroad went
throjgh a rotten bridge, thirteen miles
from Selma, at 6 o’clock this morning.
The entire train, except the engine,was
wrecked. One white man and two
negroes were killed, and two whites
wounded.
London, February 18.—The strike
the iron and steel founders a Shef¬
field has terminated, the men accepting
the reduction in their wages.
Detroit, February 18.—The election
United States Senator, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Christiancy, took place at Lansing to¬
day, in the election of Hon. Zacha
riah Chandler.
Gainsville, Fla., February 18.—
State Fair opened here auspiciously
to«»day with a large crowd present and
the weather fine. The entries are far
beyond the most sanguine expectations
Rome, Ga., February 18.—Francis
Weeks, of Davis’ Mill, near Rockmart,
was found dead in the woods near his
house to-day. It is supposed heart
disease was the cause of his death.
Macon, Ga., February 18.—Roland
Lyon, son of Judge Lyon, shot himself
through the body with a pistol last
evening,about7 o'clock. Mr. L. is quite
a young man, and, unfortunately, of
dissipated habits.
The Tallest Printer Murdered.
Shocking Tragedy in a Disreputable House.
Mat Pollock, the tallest printer in
the United States, was murdered last
Sunday night in a disreputable house,
kept by Mrs. Starchman, at Bellefon
taine, Ohio. He went to the house
about midnight, and, being well ac¬
quainted kitchen with the premises, was sitting
in the talking to the proprie¬
tress when James Barr, a quarrelsome
Irishman, entered with a vicious bull
dog. The two drank whisky together,
Pollock furnishing it.
Barr is a very vicious man, and while
Pollock was sitting in the corner of the
room near the stove he slapped him on
each side of the face. Pollock begged
him to stop, when Barr drew a revolver
and fired, the ball ju»t grazing his
head, lodging in the wall. He then
jumped on his victim, and beat and
kicked him about the head and face in
a terrible manner. Pollock at this time
attempted to get his hat and escape,
but the fiend drew his revolver the
second time, and while Pollock begged
him in piteous accents, “Please don’t
shoot;” “Oh, Jim, don’t kill me,” fired
the second time, the ball entering the
right «ar. Po’lock felllo the ground,
the blood rushing from the wound in
torrents, and in twenty minutes was a
corpse, while the dog licked up the
blood as it flowed,
The murderer escaped, and has not
yet been apprehended. He has a star
pricked on his hand in blue ink and
his initials, “J. B." on the same arm.
Pollock was of good family, and was
all over the country by the
He was six feet eisht inches
m h ;ht, and a tine compc tor.
The Man who Fired the First
Union Shot.—P eter Rice, of the Fust
L uited States artillery band, was found
dead beneath the dock at Fort Adams,
Conn , recently. Peter fired the first
shot of the first great figfit ot
the civil war. His life has been that
of a soldier who sought the bubble
putatiou even in the cannon’s mouth
veteran in the 8eminole war, he
found himself at Fort Sumter in the
of ’61. When Gen. Anderson
ordered the fire of the Confederates to
be returned, Peter rushed to his gun.
threw his hat off and sent a ball
Charleston harbor. He opened
war.
From Washington.
Frauds of The Lobby and The Subsidy
Schemes—Passage of The Anti-Chinese
Bill—The Jurors’ Test Oath Question.
[From the Baltimore Sun.]
THE LOBBY AND THE SCHEMERS.
All of the several big schemes for
which favorable legislation has been
asked this winter have an immense
lobby enlisted in their behalf, through
which a great deal of money has been
wasted that might as well have been
saved. The most important of the
schemes are the Texas Pacific and the
Brazilian subsidies, the bill to amend
the patent laws, and one or two others.
The only one of these projects which
now has the least show of success is the
Brazilian subsidy, and there is no one
who is goose enough to bet high on
that. The fact is that the day of sub¬
sidies in the American Congress has
very probably passed away forever, as
it should.
In the lobby this winter there have
been a number of persons possessed of
no influence, and whose advocacy is
more apt to Why damage have than to help any
scheme. they been engag¬
ed is somewhat of a mystery, as is also
the other fact that certain veteran and
adroit lobbyists are at the same time
out of employment. These latter have
applied schemes to be “let which in” in one or the more
of the are on car¬
pet, and having been refused, are very
violent in denunciation of the same.
The bill to amend the patent laws is
said to be entwined very much in the
affections of all the various railroads
of the West. The outside talk is that
is has lost its and chances bad through the in¬
efficiency lobby management of
some members of the which was
here to work in its behalf. But
there is one good sign in regard to the
lobby which is seen quite became plainly. It
is very probable—not they
are any better than their predecessors
because of the more watchful
of the press and of their con¬
that members of Congress are
becoming year by year more shy of per¬
sons who are known to be in the lob¬
by, and with not a few members it is
quite sufficient to put them against
any scheme to know that lobby in¬
fluences are at work for it. As such
is the case, it is a matter for question
whether both the Texas Pacific and
the Brazilian subsidy schemes would
not have had more strength had they
rested solely on their real or supposed
merits.
CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
The House bill to prevent Chinese
immigration finally passed the Senate
last night. The vote was not a party
one, as more democrats were in the af¬
firmative than voted republicans. Several
democrats who for the bill did so
with extreme reluctance and with many
misgivings, and only because of the
tremendous pressure brought to bear
upon them by their party friends in
California. Senators Edmunds and
Conkling, who, of course, are regarded
as the ablest men on the republican
side, fought the hill with great energy
and recorded their votes against it as
did Judge Davis. Had every Senator
who did not in his heart favor the bill,
voted against it, it certainly would
have been lost. There cau be no ques¬
tion that it is a measure of most doubt¬
ful propriety and expediency. Influ¬
ences will be brought to bear on the
President to induce him to veto it, but
on the other hand the same arguments
will be used with him as were used
before Congress, that adverse action
will irretrievably damage party pros¬
pects. It is no more nor less, as a Sen¬
ator said, than pandering to th® Dennis
Kearney element.
THE JURORS’ TEST OATH.
Certain results of the jurors’
oath have been made known here which
are absolutely appalling, and it is no
wonder that, as is now said, the repub -
licans aae not generally disposed to
make any opposition to its repeal. The
effect of the imposition “packing” of this oath,
superadded to the of juries
indulged in by the United States mar
shals, has has been been such sucn than man in in manv many in- in
stances the juries have been constituted
entirely of blacks, and there have been
several occasions where most reputable
persons Lnous were convicted of alleged
crimes by black juries, not a
member of which could read The ac
lion of the Senate democratic caucus in
determining to stand up only for the re
peal of the jurors' test oath at this
session has had very considerable effect
among the House democrats. Some of
them, however, sav yet that they
insist upon including the repeal of the
election laws, and throw the responsi
of deserting the party upon the
Senate democrats. It is not likely that
will find themselves in the ma
jority, bur if they should, the House
will simply have to back down, and
that is all there is about it. Mr. At
kins, the Chairman of the House Ap
propriations Committee, expresses the
that it is useless for the House
to make any point about it.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
“
A . man in . Illinois TII . has , found r , a way
to to nia.kfci mane goou (rood lumDer lumber out out of oi romnress_* compress
ed straw.
Tuads and frogs were originally in¬
troduced into the Sandwich Islands to
exterminate cockroaches.
Henry Clay described a mule as an
animal that has no pride of ancestry,
and no hope of posterity.
The late Caleb Cushing is said to
have received $26,000 in legal fees
during the last year of his life.
The proposition to restore the whip¬
ping post has been defeated in North
Carolina, the main argument against it
being its barbarity.
While the English infantry rifle is
sighted up sighted to 1,600 yards, 1,750, that of Ger¬
many is up to and that
of France to 1,790.
The Young Men’s Christian Associa¬
tion of Augusta, gives vocal and instru¬
mental entertainments, for the benefit
of their friends.
A courageous Boston girl, about to
marry a comparatively poor young
man, has requested her dear friends not
to make her any wedding presents,
as she may not be able to reciprocate
in the future.
In Japan, holiday, the 4th of July is now day a
general because on that
was fought the decisive resulted battle of Uyera,
in the contest which in the es¬
tablishment of the temporal power of
the Mikado.
The bone business of Western Texas
is an extensive industry. Cattle die and
buffalo are killed, and their bones are
gathered. A San Antonian firm shipped
3,333 tons at one time, receiving
therefor one dollar and seventy-five
cents per ton.
Texas ranks third among the wool
producing States, having 3,675,000
sheep, and so treading on the heels of
Ohio. Nueces county, Texas, has more
sheep in its limits, than any other
county in the Union, they numbering
767,000.
Law, physic, and divinity are well
supplied with feminine members in the
United States. The lady doctors num¬
ber 530, and feminine dentists 420,
while 68 women lawyers. are preachers, ladies and 5
practice as Some adopt
two or three callings at ODce.
The experience of the merchants
who visited Mexico has taught them
that there is some chance of building up
a trade with Mexico if we will only
have patience, and wait until we can
show by experience how superior our
own manufactures are to those of Eng¬
land and France, for which they now
pay such an exhorbitant price.
White women receiving singular charity spectacle from
Chinamen was the
witnessed in San Francisco on the re¬
cent Chinese New Year’s day. It is a
custom with the Chinamen on that holi¬
day to show their liberality and win
favor with their gods by wrapping five
and ten cent coins in red paper, and
giving to the poor who solicit help.
The Chinese are superceding Eng¬
lish sailors to a great extent on Aus¬
tralian vessels and steamers, being
found to be cheaper, cleaner and more
easily managed. In a recent case at
Liverpool the captain of the English
vessel Queen explained for the pres¬
ence of an exclusively Malayan crew
by saying that all the available Eng¬
lish sailors at Singapore were so drunk
that he could not take them.
In Greenbush, across the river from
Albany, there still stands a house built
of brick imported from Holland, and in
an excellent state of preservation. It
was erected by the patroon, Van Rens¬
selaer, in 1635, as nearly as can be as¬
certained from the records. It is two
storied ; has a gambrel bringing roof, and a
^ ean rear, the
tfaves ® lde down within reach
the t ; and - There are stones set in
wa 1 3 °‘ lower story, pierced
“
WJ fh holes to allow the inmates to fire
with their muskets upon any prowling
sava g® s W “P might venture near
enough. The same correspondent
thinks tbat t ^ re are houses in Albany
that are as old as thls one - but there
are n0 recorcl8 rec0 rds showing 8b0W1 ° the dates of
erectl0D -
The skylark, which builds her seat
in the meadows, runs away from it
when frightened by anybody's
proach, lour or fire yards, under the
clover, and then rises perpendicularly
in the air, pouring fourth all its song
in its wildest strains in order to divert
attention. Bat the peasant boy knows
that the as long point as she in remains the air, hanging he still at
same is
four or five yards irom the nest, and he
uses the direction of her movement^
and the ring of her song to find out u» ’
! exact spot. If then it happens that the
young larks are just about to break
[through the shell of the eggs, at which
time the mother-instinct of the birds is
on the highth of excitement, while her
bodily strength is much exhausted by
the flying, she will drop down deaa
from the sky at the very moment the
nest is touched.
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