Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-11-12


ought to fight it out"
From the Ohio State Journal
A Peaceful End Of a Troubled Life.
Death OF a Once Notorious fIan.
We notice in one of our exchanges tho
death of a man at Pittsfeld, Lorain countys
ONO, on the 23d ult whose name will
bring to the recollection of many of the
Older readers OF the Journal the circnrl-
stances OF an excitement in about the year
1888, which, for intensity and wide epread
prevalence, has scarcely been excelled by
any of the thousand and one events that
have since absorbed the public attention
for the time being. The body of q young
girl by the name of Sarah A. Cornell, of
Fall River, Mass, was found by the side of
a haystack, x q field remote from the
highway, with the Indications OF a great
struggle and atrocious murder upon and
about it, A Methodist minister of the
place, named Ephraim X. Avery was sus-
pected, arrested, and tried, both in civil
and ecclesiastical courts, as the author Of
the atrocious homicide. Mr.. Avery was
very talented and popular preacher, and
the girl was member of his church. The
ecclesiastical court acquitted him, with full
conviction of lis innocence, and the civil
court failed to make case against him
and discharged him. But that did not
settle the question of his innocence in the
minds Of great portion of the people
thereabout, and of the whole county, for
the excitement on the subject was as in
tense in Ohio and other distant States, as
in Massachusetts. One-half of the people
believed him innocent, and the other half
were well persuaded in his guilt. Mr.
Avery, after his acquittal, resumed his oc.
cupatiOn as a preacher, and labored in
several localities, being settled for several
years at Richmond, Mass, and other places
in that neighborhood. Hundreds for
while went great distances to see and hear
him but it was evident that curiosity,
more than anything else, tended to sw ell
his audiences and he could not OutgroW
or outllve the suspicion that existed against
him. So he finally retired from the min
lstry and removed to a distant country, to
seek the quiet and freedom from annoy
ance which he could not expect in Massa-
chusetts. For the last twenty or thirty
years Mr.. Avery has led the life of al in
dustrious and quiet farmer at pittsiield,
Ohio, where no died on tho 23d Of Sep
tember, going to the grave with the respect
and regret of his neighbors and acquaint-
ancOs. His age at death was seventy
years.
Putting up stovcs-The VexatIon of the
SeasOn-Descriptton of the CcEcns0ny by
ono Who has been Through II.
In consequence Of the arrival of cold
weather once more, about these days there
is an universal putting up of stoves pre-
paratory to the winter campaign, and I'M
doubtedly great deal of profanity is in
dulged in. One who has considerable
experience in the work of putting up
stoves says the first step to be taken is to
put on very old and ragged coat, under
the impression that when he gets his
mouth full of plaster it will keep his shirt
bosom clean. Next he gets his hands in-
side the place where the pipe ought to go,
and blacks his fingers, and then he care
fully makes black mark down one side of
his nose. It is impossible to make any
headway in doing this work, until his
mark is made down the side of the nose.
Having got his face properly marked, the
victim is ready to begin the ceremony
The head of the family-who is the big
goose of the sacritice-grasps one side Of
the bottom of the stove, and his wife and
the hired girl takes hold of the other side
In this way the load is started from the
woodshed toward the parlor. Going
through the door the head of the family
will carefully swing his side OF the stove
around and jamb his thumb nail against
the door. This part of the ceremony is
never omitted Having got the stove
comfortably in place, the next thing is to
find the legs. Two of these are left inside
the stove since the spring before. The
other two must be hunted after for twenty
five minutes. They are usually found un-
der the coal. Then the head of the fami-
! ly holds up one side of the stove while
his wife puts two of the legs in place, and
next he holds up the other side while the
two are fixed, and one of the first two
falls Gut. By the time the stove is on its
| legs he gets reckless, and takes off his old
coat regardless of his linen. Then he goes
off for the pipe and gets cinder in his
eye. It don't make any difference how
we'll the pipe was put up last year it will
be found little too short or little too
long. The head of the family jams his hat
over his eyes and taking pipe under each
arm goes to the tin shop to have it fixed.
| When he gets back he steps upon ono Of
the best parlor chairs to see if the pipe fits,
and his wife makes him get down fox fear
he will scratch the yarnish off from the hairs
with the nails in his boot heel. In getting
down he will surely step on the cat and may
thank his stars if it is not the baby! Then he
gets an old chair and climbs to the Chin
ney again to find that in cutting the pipe
off the end has been left too big for the
hole in the chimney. 50 he goes to the
wood shed and splits one side of the end
of the pipe with an old axe, and squeezes
it in his hands to make it smaller. Final
ly he gets the pipe in shape and finds that
the stove does not stand true. Then him.
self and wife and the hired girl move the
stove to the left, and the legs fall out
again. Next it is to move to the right
More difficulty with legs. Moved to the
front little. Elbow not even with the
hole in the chimney, and he goes to tht
wood shed after some little blocks. While
putting the blocks under the legs the pipe
comes out of the chimney. That RENE
died, the elbow keeps tipping over to the
great alarm of his wife. Head of the fam
lily gets the dinner table out, puts the OLE
chair on it, gets his wife to hold the chair
and balances himself on it to drive SOM
nails into the ceiling Drops the hamme
onto his wite's head. At last gets the mai