Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-02-18
BELLOWS FALLS, VT, FRIDAY,

food nor fire; they will take you toto
away from us, and o, what shall / do for
the children Who will pity or help us
after this?"
al, expected some money tonight"
he replied, taking from his pocket a torn
half dollar; this is all l have; take it,
and get little bread for them tonight" !"
He put it in her hand, but the tremb-
ling fingers dropped it unnoticed "My
husband in Jail, my children starving
0 God +! what have / done that / must
suffer so?'' a.
Here the chief stepped forward. "You
shall not suffer; III see, madam, that
you and your children are made comfort
able" tau
She lifted her streaming eyes. " / am
so full of trouble that l don't know how
to thank you; he is guilty, guilty, but
my husband"
Yes" burst out the prisoner; / am
guilty. You have the presses, plates =
everything, and know it, but before AL
mighty God they are innocent they
knew nothing of it.
/ am perfectly well aware of it"
said the chief and they soon departed
with the prisoner, leaving the desolate
home to its tears and anguish.
If ever mortal grief was written on
woman's features, it was stamped on the
ghastly face of the counterfeiter's wife,
when she looked around on her weeping
children-no reproach; only, "How
could you, how could your" l have seen
the law forced into many loving homes,
where crime brought sudden woe, but /
never witnessed so narrowing a scene as
at this miserable engraver's dwelling.
She kept twisting her fingers together,
and sobbing and moaning.
Tomorrow is Sunday o, what a
Sabbath for me, my children, my hus-
band
She was lady by education, birth,
and associations. She could endure and
conceal hunger and poverty, but this
prison crime the world must know, and
the horrible grief and shame was hers to
bear as best she might
The State prison surely awaits the
father, and death the mother, if the face
she carried to his cell that Sabbath morn
ing was an index to the suffering within.
And the bright-eyed boy, the creeping
baby, and the beautiful girl-what viii
become of them ?-Nea0 York CoTrespon-
deaI Philadelphia Press.
! THE EXECUTION OF SALNAvE.-The
following details of the execution of
President Salnave of Hayti. by the rev.
olutionary tribunal, will be read with in
terest:
A few soldiers stood by the pillars
and held ropes in their hands with which
to bind the prisoner to the stake already
driven into the ground for the purpose.
There was no time lost by the officers
having the execution in charge. Placed
against the stake with his back to the
still smouldering ruins of the palace, and
looking towards the sea, Salnave was
speedily bound by the arms and permit
ted to gaze for moment on the deter
mined faces of the soldiery and the mad
dened populace. Then detachment of
infantry, thirty strong, were drawn up
within twenty yards of the doomed man
and the order was given to load.
A profound silence now fell upon the
place; the blacks gaped open-mouthed
and with glistening eyes as the soldiers
rammed down the charges in their pieces
and came to the carry. Itwas expected
that Salnave would say something be.
fore it was too late, but he uttered never
word, but faced the executioners with
unfinching eyes and determined mien
His lips moved once when the order was
given to make ready, but it was evident
that he did not intend to speak. The
soldiers brought up their pieces slowly
and not altogether many of them were
clearly more nervous than was Salnave.
Finally the word was given, the smoke
cleared away and the wretched prisoner
was seen to be pierced in several places,
but still alive. He had leaned over
little on his left side, as if to avoid the
shot, but struggled toright himself again
When it was seen that he was not 6ead
howl went up from the multitude, and
the officers cursed the bungling soldiers
in unmeasured terms.
The muskets were quickly loaded
again. The order to fire was shouted by
the officer in command, and volume of
smoke few into the faces of the speeta-
tors. When it had cleared away Sal
nave was no more Riddled in every
part of his body by the bullets of the
soldiers, his head dropped on his breast,