Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-04-06
AFFAIRS IN "GOD'S COUNTRY

, the purchase Of hearse.
George Boyer, n child seven years old
was waylaid while going home from
church, last Sunday, in Buffalo, by 1
pair Of youthful scoundrels named Car
yer and Rutland, and kicked so severely
that he died few days afterward. One
of the murderers is eleven, the Other
twelve years of age.
Major James Stedman, an old citizen
of Fredonia, New York, shot himself in
the neck last Saturday morning, and
failing to produce immediate death, took
a rope of his COW in the barn and hung
himself. He had been partially insane
for some weeks.
A fatal accident occurred in Dayton,
Ohio, few days ago, the result of tight
lacing. A young lady much given to
the practice, caused hook to be placed
in the wall of her room, to which she
was in the habit Of fastening her corset
strings so as to be able to draw them
tighter. The other day she threw her
self too heavily on the strings and broke
blood vessel, from which she died in a
few hours.
An old man of eighty four has applied
for divorce in Michigan. He com.
plains Of a system of general tyranny
and mismapagement."
A prominent New York physician has
disappeared under circumstances which
indicate foul play.
While the New York Tribune is clam.
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court the other day that it is printed on
imported paper.
They compound felonies in New York,
permitting the thieves to go at large un.
whpt Of justice, aud put the people in
Jail for what they call violation of the
Sunday law.
A Washington dispatch says that a
system of disgraceful trading in Offices
is in full operation, Republicans con.
firming Copperheads for the sake Of get
ting their friends nominated.
A New York paper, noticing the ar
rest of Parsons, the Niagara Falls post
master, arrested for opening letters,
says, mildly: He was the victim of a
mania to know the contents of every
letter placed in his hands"
A young lady of Urbana, Illinois, who
was recently caught smoking cigar by
the local of the Gazette OF that place,
gave as her reason for the act, THAT it
made it smell as though there was man
around.
A man named Samuel Milliken is
under arrest in Chicago, charged with
bigamy. He went there from Hamilton,
Ohio, few weeks ago, and becoming
acquainted with wealthy widow, mar
ried her. A chance meeting with some
old acquaintance led to the disclosure
that he has wife and family at Hamil-
ton. he had succeeded in getting about
$4,000 from his new wife.
San Francisco has had a case of terri.
BILE depravity-a young man only
twenty-five years Of age, who has robbed
sick mother, broken the hearts of two
innocent girls, sbanuoned a wife and
infant child, committed twenty or thirty
obberies, attempted a horrible crime
upon children, and attempted to poison
the minds of several young girls
At Warsaw, Indiana, about six weeks
ago, one Lawrence Hart took from the
poorhouse a boy four years old, named
Winfield Hines. Three weeks afterward
the child was missing. Its mother made
inquiry as to what had become of it, and
was told that it had been given away to
a man living in Ohio. Not satisfied with
this, she succeeded in interesting some
prominent citizens in the matter, who
began to make an investigation, where
upon, Hart having fed, after long
search, the mangled body of the child
was found in an old well. AT the cor
ouer' inquest, Hart's wife testified, and
others testified, that from the very first,
Harts treatment of the child was brutal
and cruelin the extreme; that he whipped
and beat it without mercy almost, if
not quite, every day, and that on one
occasion he spent nearly whole day in
torturing it every way the most hellish |
wantonness could suggest, first whipping
it with leather strap, then with strip |
of board, until it was not able to walk,
and then put it in the cellar, where it
lay down in the damp and chilly air and |
went to sleep. Then he removed it from |
the cellar, took it out of doors, and |
plunged its head into cold water, and |
it to remain out of doors until |
its feet were frozen. He then took it
into the house, hung it up by the stair
way by means Of a strap passed around |
the body, and held Goals of fire on a
shovel under its feet After torturing it
in this manner for awhile, he took it
down and made it walk the floor back
ward and forward, occasionally striking
il with a plated leather horse.whip until
it fell at last exhausted and senseless on
the floor
1t further appeared that the day the
child died Hart whipped it frst, out of
doors with stick OF some kind, until it
was so exhausted that it fell asleep at
he table while they we're eating break
last Upon this Hart few into a rage,
Iaid, On you, | will see if can't
1eep you awake" and thereupon seized
! horsewhip and whipped the child for
Iome time, and finally struck il a severe
,low on the temple, either with his fist
,r the butt end of the whip, and knocked
is head against the stairway, causing
wo more severe bruises on the back part
fits head.
BE then allowed his wife to put the
,hil3 to bed, and she states that she tried
o restore it, but it died that night, when
le took the tody away. Hart has been
ince arrested at Independence, near
iount Vernon, Ohio.
Butler at Home.
Strange as il may appear, Butler is