Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-16


attain. frner hold; and you must pray, be-
cause you need help to do this. 1t is too great
WORK Tor you 10 do In your own strength, but
Him."
Desperate Attempt Of q Husband 70 shoot
his Wife during the Honeymoon.
A man named Charles Williams, a native NJ
Denmark, was arrested Tuesday night ON a
charge OF attempting 10 kill his wife by shoot
ing at her with one of Colts six-barrcI re-
yolving pistols. 1t appears that he had rscent-
ly returned from California, and had been
married only about three weeks. Mrs Will
liams, young and toleTably good-looking
woman, appeared Wednesday morning before
Justice Connolly. at the Fifth District Police
Court and made the following statement in an
affidavit:
Mary Ann Williams. of No. 50 Oak street.
deposed that on the 10th day Of July. 1855,
she was violently and felORiously assaulted by
her husband, Charles Williams, who attempt
ed to take her life, by discharging at her a
pistol loaded with powder and bail.
About half past eight o clock in the evening
she went across the street from her residence
TO the house Of John johnson. No al Oak
street, to get some milk, and while obtaining
II her husband came in, and seizing her by
the throat with one hand, and presenting the
pistol at her with the other, said, MARY, Won
will have to take this"
She screamed, and her husband was seized
by johnson, whereupon the wife started TO
run away, and had got up two or three steps
on the stairs Of Johnson's house, when. on
looking behind, she saw her husband close 20
her; He caught hold Of her by the dress and
discharged one Of the barrels of the pistol at
her, the contents Of which passed over her
head, owing to her falling at the time he seized
her
When the wife fell, and after the DISCHARGE
of the pistol, she felt her husband strike her
about the neck or head with the pistol, but
she tainted and became insensible, and is un-
aware what occurred afterwards The re-
time loaded and capped.
Ofhcer Pendergss;, who arrested Williams.
found the bullet which had been discharged
from the pistol, upon the stairs Of Johnson's
house, just over the place where Mrs " illi ms
was at the time the pistol was discharged at
her.
The weapon, q large six shooter. heavily
loaded, was brought into court. Williams Is
about thirty years Of age. He had been in
California for the last two years He WIS
committed TO prison in default oftwo thousAz1
dollars bail.
Mrs. Williams, the wife was retained as n
witness. Jealousy and intemperance on the
the cause Of the difficulty Williams, upon
his examination. said he did not know what
ne was about.-N. Y. Evening Post.
Strange Activity Of an Insane Woman.
There is u woman in Whitney, who, for the
past ten years, has been insane. Ii isn't
fully known what the cause was that lei n
this very peculiar state Of the mind. About
eighteen years ago she lost her husband, but
since that time she has performed the duties
OF her household with as much care and pru-
dence as Is common-oooks, washes does all
the household work without assistance or guild
ance. But, unlike most women, she spends
no useless time in doors engaged upon the
nicer kinds of lace work, or even at the toilet
She has a work TO do and all her energies are
given TO it. As soon as the dishes are washed,
furniture set in order, she lights her pipe and
starts for the field.
About six rods from her house are two small
hills which she is at work in leveling They
are about IL feet high, and ON the top contain
nearly quarter of an acre. During the past
ten years all her leisure moments have been
thus occupied. Early in the morning. with
her crowbar and hoe, which are the only
tools she used. she starts for those hill tops,
and there works till night. She carries the
small stones to the foot Of the hill. rolls the
large ones, and the dirt hoes down. In this
way she has lowered one hill more than feet,
the other Al.
The work she has performed is said 10 be
more than any one man in this town could
have done in the same time with the same
tools. The stones alone she has carried To the
foot of the hill would now require the labor of
five men and four oxen two months 70 remove
Notwithstanding this immense and continuous
labor, she enjoys at this time the very best of
health.
When in the house about her work she is
perfectly rational, never destroys anything,
and is guilty of no cunning tricks, such as
crazy people generally are. She uses her
son ! wood to heat up large rocks, which she
cannot remove without breaking, then pours
water upon them, shelling them into small
pieces TO enable her to carry them into tbs
valley.
Upon almost every subject Of the day she
expresses herself, having ideas peculiar to her
self alone. In scriptures she is well versed.
The word Sun is not properly spelled, she con-
tends il is Nus, beoouse il nourishes the ear a.
l he wonderful Aurora Borealis is the Devils
ire; and stars are the sparks that rise UP whea
the Devil stirs IL. She has had occasional en-
counters with this parsonage while at her work
on the hills. Once he attempted to take her
-Totcoar from her. 1t was badly bent in tho
struggle and her face scratched, but she over
powered him.
She has great faith in charms, or what she
'alls power-stOnes; her bed is accordingly filed
with these stones which she takes from the
the windows, corners, and various
'ther parts of the house. She puts them also
around her corn, which she plants upon the
Hills, and which grows well and yield abund-
lntly, though all the soil is removed These
tones, she assures people, keep of the witches
Ind make the corn grow.-Banyor Mercury.
RELICS OF THE REvoLUTIoN.-Manyo of our
'itizens as well as numerous strangers doubt
ess remember the "Old Adams House." stu
tied nearly opposite the depot in West Cam
'ndge, which has long been noted as a relic Of
evolutionary times, and has been visited by
thousands of persons for the purpose of view
ng the bullet holes which were made by shots
lred by the British on the day of the everm
norable battle of Lexington. The old house
8 now undergoing demolition, and is dailyys
ted by numbers Of persons who are deslrVls
f obtaining some part of it Is q memento OF
he times that tried mems souls. Quite a num-
Der of bullets have been found imbedded in