The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1820-06-14

udyS ago, tlidt CiCVCu ouLoJC0 dIlu 'Slxty-
fve dollars were spent in one night at
the theatre, am afraid, says |, not
withstanding their professions, some peo-
pie are aycrsc to Saving The pieces
The other day went to sec neighbor
Thrifty his wife was up to the elbows
in -four, she was making bread. "Neigh-
bor Square Toes" says she, :" House
keepers are not generally aware of the
great saving there is in using -four in
preference to animal food; and the chill.
dren greatly prefer pies and puddings,
and now and then a sweetened loaf, and
besides being cheaper, its much more
wholesome.
"Wheat -four, at the present price, is
only about two cents and half, and rye
-four only about one cent and half per
pound, and this too without bones--no
bones in -four, neighbor Square Toes;
while for butchers meat, we must pay
from six to twelve cents per pound,
bones and ALL" This woman, said |,
understands saving the pieces In fact,
MIR. Printer, we must no longer puzzle
our brains with contriving how to get
money by head work and speculation,
but we must apply the shoulder to the
wheel with all the energy in our power,
as the only means now left us of saving
the pieces. SQUARE TOES.
Curious case Of Conviction on circumstantia evil
dence.
A man was tried for and convicted of
the murder of his own father. The evil
dence against him was merely circum-
stantial, and the principal witness was
his sister. She proved that her father
possessed small income, which, with
his industry, enabled him to live with
comfort; that her brother, the prisoner,
who was his heir at law, had long ex-
pressed great desire to come into the
possession of bis fathers effects and
that he had oEg behaved in very undu-
tiful manner to him, wishing as the wit
ness believed, to put period to his eX-
istcnce by uneaslDess and yexatlon; that,
OH the evening the murder was commit
ted, the deceased went q small distance
from the house, to milk a COW, ne had
tor some time kept, and that the witness
also went out to spend the evening and
to sleep, leaving only her brother IN the
house that returning home earAjn the
morning, and finding that her fa{her a. d
brother were absent, ,he was much a.
larmed, and sent for some neighbors TO
consult with them, and receive advice
what should be done that, in company
with these neighbors, she went to the
hovel in which her father was accustom-
eel to milk the cow where they found
him murdered in most inhuman man.
ner. his head being almost beat to pieces
that a suspicion Immediately falling on
her brother, aud there being some SNOW
|. upon the ground in which the foot steps
OF a human being, to and from the hovel.
were Observes, it was agreed TO take one
of the brothers. shoes, and to measure
them with the impressions in the snow
this was done. and there did not remain
a doubt, but that the impressions were
made with his shoes. Thus confirmed
in their suspicious, they then immediate
ly went to the prisoners room, and alter
diligent search, they found a hammer
in the corner OF q private drawer, with
several spots Of blood upon it,. and with
small splinter of bone and some brains,
in crack which they discovered in the
handle. The circumstances Of finding
the deceased and the hammer, as desert.
bed by the former witness, were fully
proved by the neighbors whom she had
called; and upon this evidence, the pris-
oner was convicted. and suffered death,
but denied the act to the last. About
four years afterwards, the witness was
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