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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-15
LEGAL TNTELLIGENcE.
Court of Oyer and Terminer - Judges Pefrc,
and PQXsOn.

Court of Oyer and Terminer Judges Peirce
and PaXsOn'
This morning the session of oyer and Terminer
for the November term was commenced, panel OF
one hundred jurors having been summoned to at
tend.
THE DoLAN HOMICIDE
The case fixed for to-day and called for trial was
that OF the young man Robert Collins, who is
charged with the murder OF Dennis Doan on the 5th
of July last 1t is charged that on the night OF
July 9th, about 81 O'clock the prisoner was In the
neighborhood Of Seventeenth and Helmuth streets,
in company with two young women, and crowd OF
boys were tauntng him until he was so angered that
he kicked one OF them. Afterwards he went into an
ice-cream saloon with the women, and some
OF the boys stationed themselves about
the door TO catch glimpse OF his face, and when he
came out, some OF them followed him. The women
lett him, and he standing alone, TOOK a pistol and
fired twice at the crowd or boys, the second shot
taking effect in the body OF Dennis Dolan, and caus-
William D. wetheril, Richard Ludlow, and Joseph
A. Bonham, Esqs, appeared as counsel for the pri-
soner
At the time Of our going to press, counsel were en-
gagged in selecting jury.
u. n. District COurt-JudRe CadvValader.
This morning the term for Jury trials was COM
menced, the Court appointing Caleb Cope foreman
Of the Grand Jury. The Judge charged the Grand
Jurors brefy as to their duties and dismissed them
70 business, saying that in all probability there would
be but little for them 70 do.
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feet above the floor, this beautiful child would
balance herself, with arms outstretChed and s wi
upon her face, and then swinging in long o,cll,-
tons, stand upon one foot looking more ike a crea-
of the air than being of the earth. So danger
GUS did her performances appear that many persons
predicted that she would fall and break her neck.
Last night the prediction came very near being
verified. Madle Zagrino was going through her
usual trapeZe performances, and had come TO that
part where she stands on one foot, with the bar in
rapid motion, when she lost her balance. she at
tempted to grasp the bar with her hands, but missed
it, and fell headlong upon the floor inside of the
orchestra railing, striking on her right hand and
breaking her wrist. A deep cash was also cut in
her forehead and her shoulder was severely bruised
cry of horror arose from the audience as the girl
fell and men started up in the widest excitement.
Every cheek turned as pale as ashes, and men and
women became as tremulous as though stricken
with palsy.
ON striking the floor near the bass viol, the girl lay
STILL and it was supposed that she dead. Her
father, who had been watching the performance
from the STAGE at once came forward, and leaping
in the orchestra lifted up the lifeless form OF bia
daughter and placed her upon the stage. She was
then carried behind the scenes and three physicians
were sent for. The show went on-two comic songs
being next on the programme
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The Canadian Annexation nIoveuen,

Mr.. Aubin editor OF lie Pays, the radical french
Canadian organ OF Montreal who came 10 Washing
ton as the representative of the anneXaonists viii
remain for several weeks. He represents the an
neXatioDsts strongly opposed 10 reciprocity de-
claring that sucn policy indefinitely prOlongs Bri-
rish rule and colonial dependence on this continent
Want of reciprocity is commercial ruin TO the cana
who is NOT in office will, under the pressnra
come over to those who demand independence or
annexation. Mr.. Aubin represents the independ-
ence policy growing continually all over the New
Dominion, while the anneNationists are strongest in
Upper Canada and the maritime provinces In
Montreal there is growing organization In its favor
the active men in which are transformations. The
agitation for independence is regarded as the half
way house TO annexation. The past few days have
added materially to the number Of Senators and RE-
presentatves now in Washington, and the current
week will increase the list still more.
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THE TRAPEZE.

Fearful FaII-Exctting scene In n 81. Louis
Theatre.
The "Varieties" Theatre OF St; LOUIS WAS ,ast elle
scene OF an accident on THURSDAY evening !ast
which is thus described in the Democrat OF that
city:- ~
The daring feats Of a Young girl known as Madlle
Zagrlno, who is only about fourteen years vi hge'
have for some time excited the wonder ana anhta t
girl so youthful, handsome, and seemingly aruess
should attempt and successfully perform Ieals on
the nytng trapeze which older performers were
afraid 10 undertake. inspired the spectators with en-
thusiasm that often broke forth In the widest ap-
plause. Mounted upon q bar hanging twenty-five
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FINANCE AND COMMERCE..
OFFICE OF TIE EVENING TELEeRAPH,l
MAMMAL Mr.. Y


The week opens with moderate degree OF activity
in the discount Market and a small demand for
brokers' loans but the latter are decided favortes
with the banks, as heretofore so often noted. APP
pearances favor the impression that the banks have
made some improvement in their supply of funds
during the past week, and II their weekly statement,
to be published this evening, ,sustains IT, there be
doubt that the market for discounts will be forced
down despite Of present bull Influences to buoy it
up. The rates demanded for time loans have only
been obtained by reason OF the temporary pressure
induced by backward collections West and South,
and not the result OF any tgreat discrepancy be-
tween the supply and demand.
Call loans are first favOTites with all classes OF
lenders and may be quoted at Coz per cent. on Gov
ernment and mixed collaterals. Flrst-cass business
paper well secured and endorsed is current al 9l0
per cent, chiefly the latter.
Gold is steady this morning at 12Ga6126zs. Gov
ernment bonds were dull, but prices continue steady
at Saturdays closing quotations.
The Stock market was moderately active, and
prices, with but few exceptions, were steady
State loans were without Improvement. City skies
were unchanged, selling at 101 for the issues
Lehigh Navigation was taken at 33}4, with IA bid
for Schuylkill Navigation preferred.
Reading Railroad was in fair request, and sold at
As 3-16, cash, and 4S26a4sh, b. o.s Camden and Am
Doy Railroad changed hands at 1893, and Pennsyl-
vana Railroad at 53. 70i4 was bid for Norristown,
52s4 for Mnehi "a for Catawissa preferred, and 2s
for Philadelphia and Erie,
Coal stocks were quiet. st. Nicholas sold at 3S.
PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
Reported by De Haven Bro, No. 40 s. Third street.
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follows:U. S. 6s Of 1881, 111@1l7a%; b2Os OF 1862
115A@1154; do, 1854, l12S@l12'S; do, 1865, 1850
1151l@1l534; do, 1865, 1l5ll@115H: lO-4Os, iO74@
1072g; Cur 6s, 10724@10s; Gold, 1855.
street. Philadelphia report the following quotations:
us es Of 1881, lI7h@11aM; do 1892 51Gsll5M;
new, 5A@1l5]6 do. 1867, do. 116K@i15}S do 1885,
do 11514 @1l51 lO-4Os, i01A@1O73G; U. S. 80 Year
per cent Currency, 10724a10S; Due Comp. Int
-NARR LADNER, Bankers, report this mornings
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The Wilmington (Del.) Commercial has a long arti.
Gle on the abuses in the Insane Department OF the
Almshouse Of that city, from which we take the fol-
lowing passages:--
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-13
Impending Imperialism.

WE have already commented upon the
startling fact that in this year of grace
1869, in the Republic of the United States,
and in the metropolis of that Republic,
an organ is now established which boldly
advocates a change Of our form of gov
ernment from republicanism TO imperial
ism. Such paper is published, not only
without mOlestatiOn, but almost without
remOnstrance. Il is certain that no re-
mOnstrance comes from the Journals
which are the peculiar advocates Of what
passes for political Republicanism" now.
On the contrary, leading journals of this
character have gladly seized the offered
opportunity, under cover OF presenting
the platform of the new imperial organ,
TO ventilate their own views as to the as
sumed necessity of 1t least some sort of a
more centralized and stronger form of
government for the nation Moreover, it
is boldly asserted by respectable news
paper in New jersey, that the avowed adj
vOcate Of imperialism is "edited under
the auspices and at the cost of the Secre-
tary of the Navy, Mr.. Adolph Borie."
and still further, that Grant himself
lends cOuntenauce TO the scheme by aid
ing with money and means its circulation
among his friends"
The strength of this statement lies in
the fact that il is not denied, and further,
IN the tact that its eager repetition BY Rad
lc@l 1urnalS throughout the country
meets With no TemOnsiIance or Tebuke
This IS all the more startling when we re-
fleet that within a very bvief period-for
expressing opinions upon what was as
sumed TO By the government" but which
vas really nothing more than an arbitra-
~ patty usurping unwarrantable power
journals have been summarily suppressed
and editors have been imprisoned, and
that, 100, without even the pretence of
warrant Tor such prescription and p7o-
ceediDgs. With this positive history
fresh 10 mind, 10 put it in the nildest
manner, ii is certainly singular that hrs-
zen propositions To Lot merely change.
but TO violently overthro-< our constitu.
tional form of government. should not
only be permitted cut actually be en-
cOuraged by those who hold high office
at the peoples lands
1t is all very well to saw that these open
expresslOns Of views in favor of imperial
ism in this country are mere ephemeral
exhai1tions of SO much vapor. But when
Journal like the Round Table gravely
csclares that we are drifting into impe-
rlallsm, and when representative Re
publican paper like ttc Cincinnati Com
DsercloL talks about the coming centraliza-
ton which is to absorb and govern the
whole continent, and make this CITY
what London is to Great Britain. and
st. Petersburg TO an empire only less ex-
tensive than ours" we may well wake up
to what seems near at hand. Absurdest
OF all things is it to say, ir the very face
OF facts, that a change in the present form.
or even a sudden and violent overthrow
OF our present form of government, is i'm
possible. IL has been done alreadu. The
government which Radicalism, within
very brief period, has fastened upon the
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-13
A Living Skeleton.

a REMARKABLE instance of human ema-
citation exists in the family of German
laborer named Charles Schrier, who re-
sides on Talbot street, three doors from the
northeast corner of FullartOn. 1t is that
of girl aged ten years, who is entirely
without flesh, and who has existed in this
condition from earliest infancy. The un-
fortunate child presents spectacle to
move the deepest sympathy. Without
the power to aid herself in any way, or to
signify her wants except by fretfulness,
she sits propped in chair all day long,
attended constantly by the other members
of the family. Her face gives her the APP
pearance of an ordinary invalid, wasted
by disease, but the body and limbs dis
close an almost total absence of flesh, the
frame exhibiting its CHASTITY outlines
through the skin. Though without the
gift of speech, her intellect betrays much
acuteness; when pleased, she smiles COM
posedly, and remains perfectly tranquil
and happy when rocked in the chair
She is also pleased with the notice of
strangers. When unhappy, she struggles
for utterance, the only effect of which is
a faint cry. Her hearing, however, is
said to be perfect She cannot be moved
from one position without considerable
pain, and, as all such subjects do, suffers
from perpetual cold.
Medical men who have examined her
express the opinioa that her emaciation
has been produced from prenatal causes.
(Ontdri0) Free Press.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-13
Robert Anderson.

The hero of Fort Sumter has been
turned out, in his old age, like worn
out horse, to die on the commons. He has
served his country long and well. He has
been compelled by his necessities to sell
his library, and go and live in Europe Is
there no list of subscribers for house for
him? Why does the intensely respectable
Borie, the charitable Stewart, the friendly
Washburne, and all the rest of the patri-
OTIS who rushed to Grants call for a house,
not respond? Because there is no money
in the hero of Fort Sumter. He has no of
fees to give. If he were President, or
General of the army, ne would be over
whelmed with presents of houses and
money by the Stewards, Bories, and other
political present-makers. 1t evidently
don't pay to be the hero of mere fort.
-Erch0nOe
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-13
Laming Horses.

THE horse is one Of the most powerful,
ambitious and sensible Of domestic ant
mails, andyet, in acertainsense, is far from
being hardy one. In this respect the
horse is not equal To the rough and tumble
usage which the mule or even the OK can
bear without exhibiting marked signs of
the severe discipline to which they have
been subjected.
In reviewing the many horses daily
thronging the streets of the larger towns
and cities, the number Of defective ones
can scarcely fail of being remarked. Some
are ailing in the fore limbs, others in the
hind ones, and not few in both. This is
not necessarily the result of age, defective
blood, nor of special hard work, though in
some instances it may be so, but much Of
tener is the consequence of careless hand
ling or. positive cruelty on the part of
those to whom they are entrusted.
AS has been already intimated, the
horse, in a certain sense, is a delicate ami
mai, and II bounced upon in a passion
while encountered with harness, and pos
sibiy with load too heavy for easy move
ment, the chances are that efforts to es-
cape punishment will result i'm such an
over-tension of the muscles as to produce
permanent lameness
Every one conversant with the rough
and tumble work of the farm, the lumber
forests. stone quarrics, the docks and the
like, will have encountered many difficult
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-13
Compost Heaps.

IT is often recommended that when ma
nure is thrown into heaps in the field, it
should be covered with layer of earth to
prevent the escape of the ammonia. The
experiments of DR.. Voelcker, at the Royal
Agricultural College at Cirencester, in
England, have established the fact that
the evaporation of ammonia from large
heaps OF manure. goes on but slightly !;
for the reason tnat, during the decompOsi-
ZION OF the manure, certain organic acids
are formed at the same time the ammonia
is evolved, and then Immediately unite
with the ammonia, forming non-volatile
compounds. There is an active escape Of
ammonia from the interior of large heaps,
where the heat is too great for the chemi-
cal changes above referred to; bat, as it
appros ches the exterior parts of the heap,
where the heat is very much less, the am-
monia is completely taken up by the or
ganic acids and retained. There will be
but a trifling escape of ammonia while
there is sufficient moisture to retain it, for
water ahsOrbs and retains many hundred
times its bulk Of ammonia gas at ordinary
temperatures. These non-volatile COM
pounds, from being highly soluble in
water, are liable to be washed away by
every rain storm, giving the well-known
brown color to the DRAWINGS Of manure
heaps.-AnaerScGn Agriculturist.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-13
Common Sense

Rules the mass of the people, whatever the mis-
named and misanthropic philosophers may cay
TO the contrary. Show them good thing, let its
merits be clearly demonstrated, and they will not
The masses have already ratified the judgment OF
physician concerning the virtues of HOSTEL
TIERS BITTERS, as may be seen in the immense
quantities of this medicine that annually sold
in every section of the land. 1t is now recognized
greatly superior to all other remedies yet de-
yised for diseases of the digestive organs, such
diarrhGa dysentery, dyspepsia, and for the va
rious fevers that arise from arrangement of those
portions of the system. Hostetter's name il rapid
ly becoming a household word from Maine to
Texas, from the shores of the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc. These celebrated STOMACH BIrTERS
have doubtless created as much sensation in the
community for their remarkable cures as any
other medicine extant. 1t is fact that in the
minds of many persons a prejudice exists against
what are called patent medicines but why should
this prevent you resorting to an article that has
such array of testimony to support il as HOS
letters STOMACH BITTERS Physicians
prescribe it; why should you discard il? Judges,
usually considered men of talent, have and do use
Let not your prejudice usurp your reason. to the
everlasting injury of your health. IL is the only
preparation of the kind that is reliable in all
cases and it is therefore worthy of the consider
alton OF the afflicted. The BIrTERS are pleasant
to the taste, agreeable in their effects, and Alto
gether valuable as tonic or remedy for indiges-
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-13
les in which teams and teamsters have

ties in which teams and teamsters have
their tempers and powers of endurance
severely tried Both become excited and
fractions, and whatever the fault, if fault
there be- the horse is likely to receive
pretty severe treatment if not permanent
damage. Not few horses are famed un-
der such circumstances, while others are
injured by want of proper consideration
on the part of those having them in charge
not from positive illtreatment, but by
carelessness in placing the animals in such
situations as TO cause unwOnted exertiOns
to escape from an apprehended danger.
Rough, boorish men are not suited to
the care of an animal having the spirit,
tenderness and susceptibility pertaining to
the horse, and were such less frequently
entrusted with the management OF stable
stock, there would be fewer limping and
comparatively vslueless horses in our pub
lie thorougbfares than there are at present.
The greatest care, it is true, cannot pre-
vent accidents to horses, in ali cases, but
with proper attention the number Of the
hating ones would constitute the excep-
ton, and not the rule, as is now too often
the case.-Iur, Field and Farm.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-13
Multiplying the Popular viii.

AS ELECTED, the House of Representa-
tives Of the Forieth Congress stood 113
Radical To 30 Democratic members, or %
over the two-thirds for the Radicals, that
result being attained by the presence of 80
csrpet-bag Representatives and u bogus
representatives. from Missouri, Nebraska,
Nevada, West Virginia and Tennessee.
With the election OF November last IL was
evidently the popular desire TO reform this
matter, and from the thirty-One States then
voting the members elect stood Radicals
1873, Democrats II, or three less than two
thirds for the Radicals. At this there was
st the same time some considerable pOpu-
lar congratulations, and it was noticed as
sign OF the existing disapprobation of
Congress that the Republican Congress
siOnal vote fell 50 far behind the vote for
Grant We did not ourselves share in the
general felicitatiOn, feeling pretty well as
sured that Radicalism, 10 be Radicalism,
would resort To any shifts, however dis
creditable. rather than lose its two thirds !;
and such is now seen TO be the fact. 1t
has been asserted by Hon. James Brooks
from his seat in the House that the Demo
Gratis elect have been reduced "below fifty
st most" and, while our information does
not go entirely TO that extent, it is still
Sufficient To show that the will OF the pe0-
pie have been so shsmelessly disregarded
as to give the Radical dictionaries of the
House six votes over the twO-thirds. As
seven of the Southern States now wholly
or in part unrepresented viii only be al
lowed to present or complete their delega-
tions on the condition of Il able" R4di-
Gals appearing, it will be seen that, despite
the voice of the people, Radical chicane
will hn in no ~
gress just where it stood in the Fortieth
Congress, and that is with a Radical vote
of some twenty over the requisite two
thirds. If this be not the OLD South Car
DINA doctrine of notification, what is?-
Ne1o York World
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-13
Gratifying Result.

THE local elections in Indiana and Ohio
Indicate general increase of the Demo
cratic strength. The fact is gratifying, and
the more so because it is very unusual, in
the beginning of a new national admins
traton, for the minority party to show in
creasing numbers. But there is now q
special reason for this unusual state of
things, and that reason is that the country
is disappointed, and at the point of being
disguised, with Mr. Grant. Grants Off
cial appointments constitute a very dis
gushing dose for citizens of average intelli
gence to swallow. One effect of that
nauseous dose is seen in the return of so
Der, thinking men to the party which con
tains, and has alwas contained, the best
brains of the nation.-C Chicago Times, Nay
It'll.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-13
FESTIVE Radicals.

The rats are beginning to leave the
sinking ship, as such vermin are certain to
DO as soon as they perceive the least sign
of approaching disaster. Not only the
politicians, disappointed applicants for
offices, and persons who have not been
consulted as frequently as they suppose
they should have been, who might
naturally be expected to manifest some
irritation and bitterness, but many OF the
strongest supporters of the present Elk
ecutive, until within few weeks past,
and = portion of the most lnduentlal OF
the Radical Journals of the country, are
expressing their disappointment and dis
gust at the vacillatlng AMI corrupt policy
of the government, as manifested during
the past two months. A portion of them
are CRYING out for "A change in the Cabl-
net, forgetting that the difficulty Orlgl-
mates at the fountain head, and that the
several bran hes of the government but
reflect the opinions and infirmity of pur-
pose so conspicuous in the Executive him
self
Having been defeated an subiugated by
the designing politicians OF MS own party,
our military President at present enter
taIns no fixed opinions of his own on any
subject connected with the science OF gov
eminent; but is being irresistibly borne
along by the current of the many and
diverse op Mons which are constantly be-
ing thn st upon him. No definite policy
being en,5rtained by the Chief Magistrate
himself, but, on the contrary, his opinions
on every subject being manufactured for
hun, it is useless to expect that the best
Cabinet ever formed would be able to
pilot the Ship of State out Of the whirl-
pool of imbecility and corruption into
which it is being drawn by the incompe-
tency of It's Captain. The President be-
ing mere puppet in the hands OF the
many Radical manipulatOrs, who are each
pulling the strings In a contrary direction,
the affairs Of the country, not over bright
ly appearing at present, are likely TO go
on from bad to worse. Too many cooks
are most certainly spoillng the Executive
broth, and il is small wonder that the bet
ter portion of the Radical party are be-
ginning to cry out against the flavor OF
the mass. They have made their bed,
however, and they must lie upon 1t; but
in their efforts TO shut their eyes TO the
glaring incompetency and mismanagement,
and to sleep quietly through the disasters
OF the next four years, we need feel no
manner of surprise if We discover much
weeping, wailiug and gnashing of teeth.
The prospect truly is not cheerful one
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