Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-10-01

Exemption from crime must be
rare indeed, when the political
editor Of New York daily has his
equilibrium disturbed by its OBJ
servance for flour days" Now,
according to this same New York
city daily press, the South is the
home Of the demon, the cut-throat,
the midnight assassin, and the
barbarian. But in all its barbar-
ism, in all its atrOcious misdeeds,
in all its vileness, in all its
heartlessness, its mothers have
never yet cast their dead babes
into The streets 10 be kicked into
the cutters and there become food
for dogs. In no "aristocratic
neighborhood'' ever yet has there
been found q mother so heartless
and so cruel as this here record
ed. But the Sun says the city
had been clear of crime for four
days previous. Let us see. In
the same issue we find that other
mothers have also rendered their
babies to the dogs in the street.
We find this in the Sun also.
1.-The body of a dead infant was
picked up yesterday in Thirty
third street, near No. 206." Again,
elsewhere we find this: THE re-
mains Of a still born child we're
found yesterday deposited in a
sugar box in a garden in Forty
sixth street, between eighth and
ninth avenues" This is not the
only little innocent offered as food
to street dogs by heartless moth
ers, for in another place We read,
early on Wednesday morning
the skeleton ofan infant was found
in q coffin by some laborers while
engaged excavating in the rear OF
premises No. II Lauren's street.
Now, Southern mothers, look
at this record. And yet this New
York press charge your sons with
being demons Of the darkest dye.
Thanks be to God, if they are
wicked, if they are cruel, If they
are heartless, they drew none of
their villainy from you by wit
Messing you guilty Of such heart
less atrocity as here recorded as
the events of q single day, and
that day one of four remarkable
for exemption from crime.
But the Sun says that for four
days there has been neither muir
der nor robbery. Let us yet
further examine this record Of a
single day in this list of the events
of four days remarkable for their
quietness and exemption from
crime. The records say:
Thomas Hughes and his wife
Mary quarrelled yesterday while
on a visit at 234 Greenwich street,
and the former stabbed the latter
with a shoe knife.
Joseph H. Daniels is under ar
rest, on charge of attempting to
poison Mrs. Dorcas Shilaber, his
mother-in-law.
A young married man, named
George Maddox, living in Boudi-
not street, was yesterday ar.
rested for twice attempting a
criminal assault on the person of
Miss Emma Doran.
James Lame, alias Charles viii.
liams, was committed yesterday
morning by Judge Hogan at the
Tombs, for attempting to steal
three dozen of caps, valued at
forty dollars.
Elizabeth Freeland, alias White,
a colored domestic, was arrested
at Nyack Thursday afternoon by
detective Simington, charged with
stealing clothing and jewelry
from Mrs. Mary D. Sullivan, Of AZ
Grove street, valued at seventy
five dollars.
Mary Daragh, a wet nurse, was
committed by Justice Shandley,
at Jefferson Market Police Court,
yesterday afternoon, charged with
stealing ninety dollars in money
from her employer, Mrs. Hannah
McKeever.
The body of an unknown man,
shockingly mutilated, was found
yesterday morning near the track
of the Old Colony Railroad at
b 'gewater.
george Hilton, aged Is, Of 302
Prince street, took fOrcible posses
sion yesterday of a pocket han
kerchief containing $4,000 in
money and bonds, which Mrs. Els.
Their Schlessinger, of 10S First
avenue, carried in her hand while
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