, 1861-03-25
wKSTEAN MATTERS,


learn that L. Van slyck, ex-Postuaster at
New Lisbon, Is having 7rou5l: with tue Post
Omce Department ut Washington. They hare
drawn on him for quite large sum, claimed
to have been due when Ge left the office. Van
denies being In debt He accounts for the dis
crepancy in his accounts with the Department
By saying that a parry once employed In his
Office had forged orders for postage stamps,
md had received and sold them to parties at
La Crosse ut discount Ii this be SO we hope
ha may discover the criminal Fhenlet Judge
Cate give him what he deserves.-Maust07s
(Wis. Star
FIRE AT WuEA7oS.-Ou Friday night last
the hotel at Wheaton, kept By !. D..kinne,
" as burned to the ground Mr. kinne saved
most Of his furniture, come ten Eeds and bed
ding in the third story only being burned
Mr.. Kinne lost $50 In money. he 1t one
time had it in his hand, but in his confusion
and excitement ha laid it down somewhere,
he does not know whether In or outside Of tho
building, and that was the 1ast he saw Ct it.
Mrs. Lee, gust Of the house, o. widow Oh
her way from Iowa City to Senecs, Ohio, had
some $50 burned or stolen. She placed it un-
der her pillow On r -tislng for thg night and
when alarmed by the erJ OF ire she forgot al
about her money, In her anxiety for her own
personal safety. Tha citizsns 1aisel her =
continue her Journey. The building WAS own
ed by I. .. Kline and Phllo Stacy, and was
worth about 5000. We understand taat it
was not insured.-.haperville Sentinel. :,
i: BROKE JAm-Two United States prisoners,
-counterfeiters, FAMED Tobias ard sage, who
were sent from Detroit few weeks since to
board in our county jail TO secure their great
er safety, maue their escape MONDAY evening
last, between the hours Of aud O'Clock
dun A1.5or Journal
FATAL RAILROAD Acc1pEsT-An accident
Io1, %h,s1 auE I'M
1inston Railroad yesterday, about five miles
east Of Gilman station, at about i've O'Clock in
the morning, In consequence Of a break drop
ping dowr, which threw the forward truck Of
q box car OFT ths track TINS chr had been
chartered st Gilman by a family, and contained
their wagon, some domestic animals, their
household goods aud themselves. The Sudden
pitching Of the ear tlrew everything into the
forward part, crushing to death two Children
No ono eso was injaIld, and no damage was
done to the train.-Ieoria Transcript.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE The fins brick school
hon-e Of Richmond, Mc1enry county, was de-
strcyed BY fire on Saturday 1ncrning last. Tho
upper par: Of the building was used as Lodge
ro1m 6y the Odd Fellows and Mazous, and
was handsomely fitted up. These lodges lose
| their entire 1e2alia. parspherEalla, DC Their
loas Is about $1,000. The echool house WAS
erected something oTer two years since, at a
cost Of 81 600. It vas insured to the amount
OF $500 in the defunct Quaker City SwindlInE
Company, Of Philadelphia. The total value Of
the property destroyed by ths fre, Is IS 600
1Foodstock Sentit1eI- -
CHILD BURNED TO DEA1H.-en Monday
morning 8 distressing afair occurred IN sha
city, by which the only thld cf Air. Richard
Parton, boy ,rom two to three years Of ago
Was burned to death. Mrs Parton lett tho
child alone at home for d few minutes while
she went to 4 .ncighbors; the child must In
come manner hare fired its clothes from the
stove and when the mother returned she found
1t lying on the floor, with its clothing burned
completely Of. s3complete}y had this child
been burned that it Wan dead by tho time
the neighboEs living few rods distant could
reach tie house--Rlpon Vss Times
I a HORRIBLE CR1ME-Tne citizens Of vicks-
bursh, near Port Huron,- were thrown into O
high state of excitement On Thursday last by
the discovery Of the bodies Of two Infants in
the priyy Of a dwelling, which had been pe-
occupied during the, winter. The children
were evidently twins, aud, a. appeared upon
after their birth, by strangulation, astEing b.
ing found tied tightly around the neck oil oua,
willie over the head Of the other WAS drawn a
! black cloth, tied araund the neck, on removing
! which baniags Of sir or eight thickpcsses u
| cloth was discovered hound cloieiy oyer the
/ mouth and nose.
A coroner's Jury was summoned by Justice
| Caswell. on Friday afternoon, mud the te.ti.
! 1nony elected gave pretty sure clue to the
! mother Of the children, and also to the woman
| who was with her at the birth OF the children,
and who must have been equally, at least, im+
plicsted with tho mother 10 their leatb. the
! mother, whose name Is Martha Jane Irons,
was found In Port Huron, srreate3, an1 taAen
before the corone1s jury on SATURDAY noru-
| Ing She acknowledged tho children aa the
{oiat progeny Of heEsef and one Augustus
p Winchester, with whom she had lived undsr
| promise Of marriage, She said that she did
not know there we're two, she having been IL
most entirely unconscious at the TING Of her
! confinement, which took place On the last day
/ Of January, 1861, and implicated afrs Nc
Msnu., VINO attended her, as the nurderes.-
| she having deceived the mother by telling her
that her child was stil!born, and har!ng ai: er-
wards confessed when In liquor, that she
| threw the bodies into the privy.
The verdict Of the jury was that the ebil-
dIen came to their death by violence from the
hands of Mxs. Mary MeManus. who was i'm
| .naediately arrested On The charge of murder,
| and is now confined in ths st. Cln1r county
jaiE. awaitin9 her trial. The mother Of the
children Is also In custody, as witnc.s--Fns
i Huron Nich.l Press.