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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-19
A Sad circumstance.

There is some little talk about cir
cumstance which happened the other day
to an exalted Washington official. II
seems to be my duty to record it. / will
call the sufferer General George Belding,
for the sake of convenience He is said
to be right good mas, but was always
liberal in his views and very sociable
sort of person. He used to 20 about
good deal, and among other places he
used to go up to Socrates, on the Hudson
River railroad, every now and then, and
stay all night at hotel kept by Mr.. and
Mrs. Wagner. In due time he fell in
love with refined aud cultivated young
lady in Brooklyn, and Immediately put
himself upon his very best behavior. In
the course of six months she married
him, and gave it as her opinion that she
was marrying perfection itself. The
young couple were very happy. They
began to frisk around and enjoy the
honeymoon. Presently they ran up to
Socrates and camped at Mr.. Wagner's
hotel. In the evening George was ait
ting on a sofa in the parlor, with his
arm around his brides shoulders, when
Mrs. Wagner entered. She struck an at
titude. She began to get angry in a
minute. Then she said LOOK here,
my fine fellow, I've had as much of this
as Tn going to stand. There you are
down on that register as Gen. George
Belding and lady again. You've done
that thing sixteen times in eighteen
months, and you've fetched a fresh troll.
lop along every time. Young woman,
march Vamose the rancho, you brazen.
faced huzzyW 1t was very sad cir
eumstance. Now, wasn't itR- Marx
Train.
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MURDER WILL OUT.
Eight Murders at the Hands of a
Young DesperadO.

From the Knoxville Press and Herald. 15th.l /
Several weeks ago we gave to our
readers an account of one of the foulest
murders it has ever been our fortune to
hear Of A more detailed account is as
follows: (
On the 10th of last November citizen
OF Fentress county went to the house OF
old Mrs. Galloway, and found the old
lady, her daughter and two grand
children lying upon the floor, with their
heads split open with an ak, and the
floor deluged with blood and brains. No
certain clue to the hellish fiend could be
found. One of the children, boy seven
years Of age, showed signs of life, and
was removed to neighbors house. Two
days sfterward the little fellow showed
signs of consciousness, and was asked
who had done it 2" His reply was
(" Cal" This information, connected
with other circumstances, directed sus-
picion to Calvin Logston, who had about
that time fled to his home on Green river,
in Kentucky.
He was pursued, captured and brought
back to Fentress county, by which time
the little boy, who seemed to have been
preserved by a special providence, was 80
nearly recovered as to give correct
account of the whole bloody tale. From
his testimony it appears that Logston
came to the house with two women, his
aunts, named Brown, and demanded of
Granny" her money, with threats of q
presented pistol. Failing to get any, he
put up his pistol, and seized an ak he
found in the house, and struck the old
lady on the head, and then served the
young woman and four-year old boy in
the same manner. One of the women
then seized shovel and dealt the little
witness blow, which is the last thing he
reeollects.
Upon the return of the prisoner to
Fentress county, the citizens erected an
impromptu gallows for his accommoda-
ton, out by the efforts of Judge Houk
Judge Lynch yielded jurisdiction. Fail
ing to get jury in that county, the
venue was changed to Scott county,
where, after long and laborious trial,
the verdict has just been rendered Of
guilty of murder in the first degree,
without any mitigating CIRCUMSTANCES"
and sentence OF death pronounced by |
Judge Houk, to take effect on the 18th
,f October next
An appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court, and the prisoner and his guard
arrived here yesterday.
For his prosecutions appeared Messrs.
)owell, Attorney General Huneycutt
md Henderson. For his defense Messrs.
Younp and Sawver
. Although the prisoner is only twenty
wo years of age, be freely confesses to
light murders. rr4t-a
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A Determined suicfde-A Little Pre-.
Iiminary Conversation.
From the Cairo Bulletin.l m


From the Cairo Bulletin.l I.4
Some two or three weeks ago or more,
Patrick Purcell was seated on the track
of the Mount Carbon railroad, overlook
ing the turbid waters of the Mississippi.
He had been seated there but few mo-
ments when along came Matthias
Schaefer, German resident of the place,
who sccosted Pat in this wise;
"Mr. Purcell, I've a notion to drown
myself "
"Well, if you want to drown yourself"
coolly replied Pat, why don't you go
along and do it?"
"Ifyou don't come, rcjoined Schaefer,
"Tll do it sure-you'd better come -
saying which he proceeded to the edge of
the water.
"Go on with the show" was the an
swer; TITS none of my funeral" ;"
Come quick, if you are coming. !
tell you again, you had better come"
was Schaefer's 6nal appeal to the imper-
turbsble Pat, who maintained his seat on
the railroad track.
Proceed with your exhibition" came
from Pat again, whereupon the deter
mined Schaefer waded out into the
stream, sat down, aud actually drowned
himself.
Pat mentioned the circumstance to q
passer-by few moments after, and when
reproved for not rushing in and rescuing
the foolish man, retorted with some spirit
that if he wanted to drown himself it
would 60 pretty hard with the man that
might attempt to interfere with his ar
rangementsl And so the matter dropped.
The body of Schaefer was taken out as
soon as possible, but too late to attempt
rssuscitsiion with-any hope of success.
So it was quietly put away in the ground
on the margin of the stream within whose
waters the life left it.
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A full line of the above now being offered at L

hunt continued. Ten, eleven, twelve and
one o'clock came; and, certainly, il
the inhabitants of those islands are as
persevering and as indefatigable always
as they have proved themselves to-day,
they deserve to be the most pros
porous people in the world. Not
an instant were the whales permitted
to rest continually harassed, from hav-
ing been timid in the extreme when first
attacked, they now became careless Of
their enemy, and allowed themselves to
be struck by oars as they rushed past the
boats to escape from the various creeks
into which they had been pressed: At
three o'clock pm. they we're dislodged
from position which they had maintain.
ed for some hours in distant part of the
bay or outer harbor, and were driven
about mile towards the inner harbor.
Again they made several attempts to
escape, but by an unlucky turn they
rushed over shoal ground, and now the
most exciting time of the day came.
Maddened by the difficulty of moving in
shallow water the whales dashed frantic
ally from side to side, raising the sea into
violent breakers, az though gale had
disturbed the water, rocking the small
trading vessels to and fro as they ap-
preached. The boats now began to
come up in numbers; the whales were
blinded by the commotion they had cres.
ted, thiekening the shallow water. Hav-
ing kept closely united during the whole
day, the shoal now became divided they
seemed, as it we're, to become at once
bewildered and allowed themselves to be
gosded by the boats to the shore, to be
dispatched one by one by the fishermen.
| will not attempt to describe what is
still going on; suffice it to say that, as
far as can judge, and from the opinion
of the fishermen, there will be at least
two hundred whales taken; half that
number are already killed, and as many
more are safe within the harbor. The
whales are, believe, all of one kind,
known as the bottle-hose species; they
measure in length from ten to twenty-one
feet. The fishermen will make o great
gain by this prize, and they we'll deserve
it. Tho chase from the first until the
whales were driven within the inner har-
bar, lasted upward of thirteen hours,
at two o'clock am, and
the irst being killed soon after three p. m.
II is said to be seventeen years since
shoal of whales has entered this bay SO
far. The event of to-day has been the
most exciting thing ] have ever seen-a
scene seldom witnessed and never to be
orgotten.
Since writing the above | learn that
,ne hundred and seventy-fve whales are
llready killed. The value, understand,
8 estimated at upwards of G700. / am,
ir, yours truly, G. F. MUNTz,
Royal Thomas yacht Waterlily, Stono-
way, July %.
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AFuil.size rIying Machine.
From the San Francisco Bulletin.l

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
At meeting of the Erial Navigation
Company held on Friday, July oath, in
San Francisco, it was voted to raise the
necessary funds to construct an improved
Avitor OF large size. The opinion of the
engineers of the company vas unani-
nous as TO the success so far, and the
feasibility and success of the projected
1yiug-ship 1t will be about $50 feet in
length, 20 TO 40 feet diameter of the CEN
ter, describing a radius of about sixteen
feet. The propellers are shaped like q
steamships, With two blades each, very
light. They will be driven by a steam
engine of 6ve-horse power, Weighing,
with boiler. connections and water, 430
pounds. The planes on each side for
floating the machine will be about twenty
feet wide at the center of the machine,
and made in sections, so they can be de-
pressed or elevated at pleasure with the
rudder or tail. The frame work will be
made BY Kimball 4 Co., the carriage
Makers the Easometer will be made in
sections, so tkst 10 the event Of accident
to one section the remainder will be
sufficient for ell practical parposes; in
deed, it is claimed that the ship can iy
the air with such speed that the
sustaining power Of the planes alone will
be suficieut to maintain the Ayiter in
mid-sir. The gasometer will be made,
OF t6.n muslin or silk, satu-
rated with gutta-peicka, ii is 10 carry
four persons, snd viii be ready for trial
In sixty TO ninety days The result of
this experiment win be looked for with
great interest al oyer tie country.
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suicide by Mrs. yreeland.

At halfpast seven o'clock, last even
ing, Mrs. Carrie Vreelsnd, about forty
years of age, and residing at No. 964
Sixth avenue, attempted to commit sui
eide by taking four draehms Of arsenic.
As soon as her rash act was discovered,
DIR. Lincoln, Of No. liz West Twenty
third street, was summoned, and imme-
distely used powerful sutidotes, which,
for the time, proved successful She lies
in critical condition, but is expected to
recover. When first restored to conscious
ness she regretted the act. which, it is
supposed, was caused by her destitute
circumstances. She is fsmiliarly known
to the public as the plaintiff in the cele-
brsted Yreelsnd abandonment cass.
The veEatious twistings of that litigation,
{" the laws delays" the publicity Of her
life by the press, aud her limited means
of subsistence preyed upon and, for the
time, unsettled ber mind to such degree
as to make her weary Of life World,
August II.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-19
extraordinary Capture Of whales.


The following remarkable fish story
appears in the London Times
SIR: l send you the following account
of whale chase, believing it will be in
teresting to many of your readers:
This morning at about three o'clock,
Stornowsy harbor, was awoke by loud
noise of men shouting and hsmmering
near the yacht went on deck imme-
diately, when l observed number of
men in three or four boats attempting to
drive shosl of large fish Numbering,
perhaps two hundred) toward the shore.
The fish, which were evidently of the
whale species, we're blowing, and con-
stantly rising to the surface of the water.
They turned toward the sea; they we're
closely followed By the boats, which
shortly turned them again toward the
mouth OF the harbor. The movement
was repeated several times, and after
while some other boats well manned ap-
peared. The scene now became still
more interesting, for the whales, being
more hardly pressed, made brilliant
dash toward the sea, going away at ter.
rife pace in straight course for the
open sea; the speed appeared to be moth
ing less than forty miles an hour, the
water rising in misty foam as they cut
their way through it. The course the
whales we're taking left little hope for the
success of their pursuers, but coming
upon point of lsna WHICH shoaled the
water, q sudden turn to the right
brought them again in the direc-
ton of the harbor; an hour or two
soon passed, and the fishermen of
Stornoway, becoming aware Of what was
going on, began to join in the chase, and
dozen boats we're soon in pursuit, the |
whales nov making way for the distant
part of the bay, and again bafiied by the |
projecting points of land bending the
course of the deep water, returned upon
their pursuers again and again. II was
now nearly nine o'clock, and il appeared
ss IL every human being in the town was
bent on making the capture of so valus-
Bile prize. Boats containing men, wo-
men and children focked to the scene of
action, and soon fifty rowing and sailing
boats we're engaged in the chase, and as
the rowers became exhausted by the tre-
mendous exertion OF long continued and
fast rowing Of hesFy boats, they were
relieved by relays from the people on
shore; the numerous fishermen who FIRST
ioined in the sport were replaced now by
bakers, butchers, masons, carpenters,
women aud children. The shops were
closed and the town deserted, and 50 the
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The Purchase of Cuba-ImpOrtant
Negotiations with the Spanish Re.

Inc FurcnaSe OF Cuba-ImpOrtaut
Negotiations with the Spanish Re.
gent.
From the Philadelphia Lodger.l
1t has now transpired that a private
gentleman, an intimate friend of Captain
General Prim, left New York for Madrid
two days before General Sickles, and
reached Madrid q week before the latter.
On his arrival he laid the whole of
General Sickles' instructions before the
Captain General and Marshal Serrano,
to ascertain the feeling before formal
presentation by the Minister, and re-
ported to the administration in this
country that the propositions advanced
had been very favorably received. The
most important proposition contained in
those instructions was one suggesting, in
a friendly manner, to Spain that they
agree to the appointment of mixed
commission, composed of Spaniards and
Cubans, or Spaniard and Cuban, who
shall meet in the city of Washington, and
fix upon price at which the island shall
be sold to the Cubans. 1t is said, also,
that the name of President Grant is men
tioned to be appointed President of the
OOnnlsSlOu, Oub CbuuOJ NOuCu lOT the
correctness of that. The island of Cuba,
by an agreement of this kind, would be
paid fer from its own revenues, and the
statement that the United States offers in
any way to guarantee the bonds, there is
the best authority for stating, is unquali-
fedly false. The Cubans claim that the
customs collections will pay any reason.
able sum in very phoFt time, aud they
ask no foreign aid to make the payment.
Marshal Serrsno, Regent of Spain, and
Captain General Prim are now consider.
ing the matter. In the Cabinet, at the
White House, yesterday, the subject was
broached and discussed, but no definite
result was reached. We shall bear from
Madrid in few days. Meantime those
who seem to know most, and who ought,
entertain no fear that the propositions |
will be agreed to BY Spain. II they are |
not, then all agree that the next action OF /
our administration will be to show a
considerably relaxed disposition toward
Cuba, which will amount to a virtual
recognition Of her independence. A
Of the Cuban Junta nov
here is in unusually good spirits, aud
professed to know that the Independence
of Cuba will be % accomplished fac.
before the end OF the year,
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A French St0ry-HOw a Lady Dis
posed Of Two Husbands.

A Paris correspondent writes as fol
lows:
Notwithstanding the political crisis a,
present hanging over the fate of France
the Parisisns devote as much time as
ever to the less important but more con.
genial matters of social life.
Madame de B. is a lady on the
,, sunny side Of forty, rich, good-ooking
and bonhomienne. Her husband, some
score of years her senior, was ordered,
six months ago, to Algeria, where he
holds an official post. Madame B,
whose health did not permit her to ac-
company him, remained in her villa on
the banks of the Seine; she continued
to keep open house, gave balls and parties
and appeared in no way grieved at the
cruel separation from her liege lord or
dained by the official fates.
Things went on some time in the most
irreproachable manner. At length, how
ever, the solitude of single bliss began to
weigh on the lady's mind, and ended in a
liaison with dashing Lothario of thirty
summers.
One morning she announced the de-
cease of her husband, producing at the
same time forged certificate Of death.
The funeral services of the lamented de-
ceased, who had been buried in Algeria,
were scarcely over when the friends of
the widow received unc lettre de faire
part announcing her marriage with the
Lothario aforesaid.
The honeymoon went off sweetly
enough, and the couple had entered on
what the French had called la lune dis
enchantment, when husband No. 2 re-
ceived a letter from Algeria, informing
him that husband No. | was alive, and
was en- route to France.
Madame de B thereupon decided
to dispose of the obnoxious old man in
summary way, and hired a ruffian to give
him a kindly thrust as he entered the
house. Everything went off as well as
play. The old man arrived from Algeria,
alighted at his country villa, and was
going up stairs to his wfe's room, when
he suddenly gave shrek and dropped
down dead
The only thing now was to get rid of
the body before the authorities could hear
of the affair. Husband No. 2 was called
into service, and in obedience to the
entreaties of his guilty para
mour, took the body, tied it up in sack
and threw it into the river, but unfortun-
stely fell in himself and was drowned,
neither Of the bodies ever being dis
covered,
II now turns out that Madame B.
lad sewed the sack containing the body
)f husband No. 10 the coat of hushand |
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HOUSE
Raleigh Springs.

Hoard Reduced 20 $40 per Week.
8. PUMP. Proprietor.
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Two horses in Jones county, Iowa,
were cured Of rattlesnake bites by the
external application Of turpentiue and
salt to the affected places, and by drench.
ing with decoctien of snakeweed aud
whisky,
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AgrirnltMral
Deep or shallow Flowing.


Mr.. DaSid Newport, OF Abingdon,
Pa, writes: " In the past year | have
Queried of our successful farmers on
the subject Of deep and shallow plow-
lag, and hnd q remarkable unanimity
OF opinion among them, that the best
urops Of corn can DO obtained by
blowing % the depth Of about four
inches, Many are Of the opiniOn that
this is deep enough for any crop, and
nne Of the farmers, who raises the
best crops Of corn, on the average,
that l know OF, insists that after the
soil has been broken up to the depth
Of eight or ten inches, many years
must eiapse before a good crop of corn
can be grown, and then only by the
application Of expensive manures. On
u occasion, TO the great distress of
my teams, ] broke up a twenty acre
field for corn to the depth of seven
inches o season of extreme drouth
followed, and the result was q very
email yield. My theory is, that the
deep, fat furrow turns under, beyond
the reach Of the surface roots, the
food adapted by nature for their sus-
teRanee--thaS the deep roots are
merely supporting, while those that
run near the surface of the ground
iced and nourish the plant"
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How to Preserve Eggs.

The Prototype, printed at London,
Cana da, contains an article on the
discovery Of q solution for the preser-
walton of eggs by 6, j. Reynolds. We
extract rs follows:
The want Of a proper and reliable
process for the preservation of eggs
is n chat has been sadly felt, not on
ly among dealers, but by ~housekeep-
ers. A couple of years since, Mr.. g. J..
Reynolds, grocer Of this city, a gen.
tleman who, during the season, deals
largely in this commodity, commenced
a series of experiments. He has f.
DalIy succeeded in bringing his pro-
cess to a satisfactory termination, and
has discovered a method whereby
eggs a be kept in a thoroughly
tresh state for a period of several
years. His process is simple, the OK
act nature of which he, of course, is
rot at present prepared 10 make pub
DC. 1t consists Of a solution, and a
be furnished at such a cheap rate, that
twenty-five cents worth will suffice
TO preserve sixty dozen. We have
seen tested several of the eggs placed
IN The solution in the month of Au.
gust last, and taken out a few days
ego. They are in excellent condition
aud in quite as fresh a state as the
day they were laid, and the favor of
t5a aSs no way Impaired.