The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-22
GENERALITIES.
A COIored Jury.

n COIOred Jurys
Michigan has had her first 'colored iury" On
the 9th inst. three Irishmen were tried in Detroit
for assault and battery, before jury exclusively
composed of colored citizens. The Irishmen
feared that the prejudice their countrymeh en-
tertain against negroes would be reflected by
the jury to their disadvantage, but the case was
fairly tried and the prisoners were acquitted.
A crowd of loafers assembled in the courtroom,
awaiting an opportunity to make fun of the
jurymen, but found themselves instead wit
nesses of a decent and intelligent behavior
which they might have initiated with profit
An InterprisIuE UndertalSer.
Nashville paper exuts in the arrival in that
city of an elegant new style of hearse for chill
dren, (which is the handsomest piece of work
of the kind we have ever SEEM" The body of
the hearse, we arc told, is white with gold
finish and trimmings of white alpaca with silver
iringing. 1t is also mounted with number of
cheerful gilt urns, while on each side of the
drivers seat is an elegant silver lamp. Another
hearse OF similar pattern is soon expected in
that city for the benefit of adults. The editor
remarks that 'the enterprisng spirit of the
undertaken deserves to be appreciated" Cer-
tainly. Nashville is happy in having such an
undertaken and such hearses. Who wouldn't
die for the pleasure of being carted off in silver
and gilt and white alpaca with fringe to say
nothing of the urns on top and the drivers
lamps!
Rarlx from the Tombs!
A Southern paper attempts by puff to instil
life into that buried statesman Toombs, who in
Ills pdllly uayb GN ITCsSCu LL6 ScTeneBJ commence
that the good time was coming when he should
call the roll of his Slaves under the shadow of
Bunker Hill Monument. The recent ratification
of the fifteenth amendment gives the slave
driving gentleman of old fine chance for reaec-
tion npon the uncertainty of earthly hopes. The
detested chattel ''nigger' twelve years ago is
now his own political equal, and the black man
Revels sits In the Senate, while Toombs, almost
forgotten, as of another age and regime, vege-
tates in obscurity. Time rights many wrongs,
and in the days when the Southern oligarchy
ruled the Senate, scarcely q decade back, the
most hopeful did not dream of so speedy vim
dication of truth and justice at its hands
Toombs cannot rise again. RequejScdt in pace
tOnly n Pauper.
Certain supervisors, whose names are given in
the Chicago papers, have rendered themselves
infamous by an act Of inhumanity to inmates of
the County Poor House. Finding more paupers
than were desirable in that building, which is
some miles distant from the city, they gave
notice to the women there that their children
would be taken from them unless they left the
premises forthwith These poor creatures had
no money, no friends, probably no means of
procuring food or shelter; but they loved their
offspring. On Wednesday morning last several
hundreds OF these poor people thus excluded
with their Children carrying their babes in their
arms, commenced their weary march to the city.
By nightfall they had not all arrived some of
the women being in delicate condition, and
none fitted for travel If there is no other ex-
PLANTATION of this piece of cruelty than the
economy intended by these supervisors they
may yet suffer from a loss of public confidence
by which they may need the shelter whence the
poor women are driven. 1t would be better for
the gentlemen thus to receive their punishment
for occasioning this exodus, rather than else
where to be compelled with uneasy footsteps
to tread the burning marl."
Nice Place to live.
In one of the New Orleans dailies there is
standing heading "From the Parishes" Some
notion of the character of news in the interior
of louisiana may be obtained from that which
is simply headed "Ouachira." The first little
anecdote is to this efect:-A lady named Lilies,
being seriously i'll, was debating will; her
brother-in-law, John Wimberly, interrupted, in
sistlng that she should leave nothing to her sis
ter, his wife, and that his reasons for this oms-
sion should be embodied as her own sentiments
in her will. The gentleman who was drawing
up the document declined to proceed with it
under the circumstances, and walked out of the
house. Looking up before leaving, he was in
time TO witness an alteration be-
tween Mr.. Wimberly and DR.. Dink-
grave, terminated in blow from the
former and two pistol-shotS from the latter,
after which Mr.. Wimberly lived about an
| hour The second item-same date and place,
Monroe, 3Oth ult-mentions that fifteen or
| twenty mounted men appeared in the evening
of the day in front of the Office of the Sheriff.
That functionary, Mr.. Wisner, came to the
door and was shot dead instantly. The mob
then forced the jail shot and killed one of its
inmates, Anthony johnson, and liberated one
Beavers, confined on charge of having muir
dered TWO freedmen in November, 1868. While
the mob-work proceeded the neighbors were
warned to keep close within their houses on
peril of their lives. This is the vicinity, it will
be remembered, where the famous vendetta
breaks out at intervals between two families
recently eliminating in number of murders
among the survivors. 1t must be & pleasant