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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16

Friday evening last young man IN the
yestibule Of a church at Newark, n. j., acct
dentally shot himself in the head during the
progress Of a prayer meeting. He won't carry
his pistol any more in the same pocket with
his handkerchief
Coffee county, Ga, is suffering terribly
irom meningitis spinal complaint Is per-
sons have died Of it recently, and in one fam.
lily Of nine persons, eight have persisted There
were but two physicians in the county and
those have both left
An Ohio burglar has discovered way
of breaking window without producing a
smash lie presses against the pane piece
of thoroughly tarred paper, to which the glass
when broken into pieces, sticks instead offall.
ing down noisily.
John j. Roe, the wealthy ST. Louisian
who died the other day left sS,OOO,0O0 and
no viii, He was ayerse to will.making and
believed that the law disposed of property
with more justice aud created less jealousy
and dissatisfaction.
The most successful beggar in Chicago is
a little girl, elegantly dressed, who pretends
to have lost her mother on the street, and
wants some pennies to pay her car fare. She
invariably gets them, and her employer is
getting rich very rapidly.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16

RoSuuM.-Messrs Poland -Roxbury Lodge,
No. lOs, 1. O. Of G.. 4. is ia hourishing coudi-
ton now, numbering one hundred members, and
constantly increasing At It's last meeting the
question Of " Woman Suffrage was discussed
quite earnestly, both pro and con, after which O.
vote Of the Lodge was taken upon the question,
and out Of fifty intelligent members ladies and
gentlemen, not one voted for, but o unanimous
vote against, d" Woman Suffrage" was the result
Is it not significant of the way that this question
will be decided by the honest, intelligent people
Of Vermont in May next2 MnmfB
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16

IS. W Nutting's wife recently got di.
vorce from him in the Chittenden county
court, for intolerable cruelty, and the court
gave her the custody of their child. a Girl
Ave years old, whom Nutting had till then re-.
tanned. Thereupon the heartless scamp took
the child TO Montreal aud sold her to a nun.
merry Tor s5C, TO prevent the laws award
This is what that unique sheet, the Yer.
mont Autograph aad Remsrksr" says.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16
Loss of the Oneida. Fearful Destruction
Of Life.
s,N FnAvc1sco. Tuesday. Mareh ]

san FRAxcfsco, Tuesday, March !
The ship Benefactress, which arrived from
Yokohama, Japan, to-day, brings full partic-
ulars Of the loss of the United States steam
ship Oneida, which departed from Yokohama
on the 23d Of January, homeward bound Inc
Oneida left her anchorage about O'Clock IN
the afternoon, and the accident occurred at I
the same evening As the Oneida steamed
out of the harbor, the crews Of the various
vessels and men-ofwar in port gave cheers
and wished her q happy voyage. On passing
ont of the harbor her fires were banked and
steam blown or While the officers were at
dinner, at about o'clock, the lookout man
shouted, Steamer lights ahead, and the
midshipman gave the order, Port helm
Everything seemed quiet ON board the other
steamer, which leads to the belief that she
had not observed the Oneida although her
lights were burning brightly The steamer
which proved to be the Bombay of the Pc
ninsular and Oriental line came right on aud
struck the Oneida ia the starboard abalt the
ranpway about halfway between the main
and mizzcn rigging. A hole was cut through
bv which the whole interior Of the ship was
made visible. The pinnacle wheel and rud-
der were carried away and two men standing
at the wheel instantly killed. The Bombay
did not stop after crashing through the OneI'
da, though the guns Of the latter, which hap
pcucd to be loaded, were almost instantly hred
to attract her attention and bring her back.
Orders were given to lower the boats but
only one life boat was available, the others
having been crushed The life boat was
manned by DIR. Stoddard' the boatswain and
fifteen Of the crew. Five guns were hred'
but before the sixth could be discharged the
Oneida sunk, within ten minutes after she
was struck. None Of those saved saw a man
or heard a voice on board the Bombay. They
report that when it became evident that there
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16

A letter in the Tribune dated Yokohama,
February lst, gives all the sad particulars,
and the evidence Of Capt Eyre and others
before the British consuls court in that city.
Capt Eyre did not wait to see what harm he
had done but sailed on as cavalierly as if he
had Just run over Chinese junk, aud only
killed half dozen Cinnamon. The collision
took place about half past six in the evening,
and at 7.43 he dropped anchor IN Yokohama
harbor. Instead Of reporting the accident at
once, he staid on board his vessel till mcrn-
ing, and it was first through the unauthorized
report Of his steward that the American and
European residents became aware of the ca
amlty during the night. At o'clock in the
morning the American steamer Yangtzel left
Yokohama to pick up the survivors, but the
Bombay, under orders from the senior officer
Of the British feet at \ yokohama, and against
Capt. Eyres wish had already reached the
scene Of the collision, and had taken on board
all the survivors 1t seems fact that the
Oneidas surgeon, with fifteen men, got into
y okohama in a boat the night Of the COLI
sion, before the Bombay had started back to
do what she ought to have done the moment
after the collision Capt. Eyre's excuse is
that he heard no whistle or guns from the
Oneida, ana did not believe her injured. In
contradiction oil this we have bit OF eY-
dence so damnlng as to be almost incredible,
Lieut.. Clemens, Of ii. b, NJ, ship Ocean, sworn
Upon the arrival Of the Bombay | went on
board for our locked mail, and in conversation
with Capt Arthur Wellesley Eyre, he said,
have tonight cut the whole quarter oil a ID
ankee lrgatc, and l served her bloody well
right, Tor met her as came up running out
with her helm a-starboard. Either the doc
tor, IN presence OF the captain, or Capt. Eyre,
III the presence OF the doctor, said her sides
were 80 badly stove that as she drllted past
US one could see into the officers cabin.
STATEMENT OF MASTER YATES.
This officer, who is one of the survivors OF
the Oneida, says When about two miles off
\ Saratoga Spit saw the lights of the Bonn
bay she came right on and struck the Onei-
da ON the starboard gangway, cutting hole
in us to the waters edge and through which
the whole interior Of the gun-room was yisi-
BILE, She carried away our gig, binnacle-
wheel and rudder, instantly killing two men
at the wheel. All the officers who were not
on deck rushed up, or were brought up, some
of them being sick, and sail was instantly
shortened. 1t was evident to us all that the
ship was total wreck, and that she would 60
down in a few minutes. As the Bombay
hauled away from the collision Lieut-Com-
mander Stewart shouted, Ship ahoy Ship
alloy Lay to; you have cut US to the wa.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16

j. " C1dlme. Seth Clark Listers. b. r.
l0ughton, s. Giddugs T. j Cheney Consa-
bic. Mason ClaHce Agent Henry Wilbur
Superintendent, h. Miller Overseer, Lyman
W Holmes
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-04-08

They have had an anomaly in Wy.
oming Territory, i'm the character of
q praying jury. The announcement
that the jury in the Howie murder
trial, composed of one half men and
the "better half' Indies, were com
PEELED to be shut up together for for
ty eight hours because they failed to
agree. created new phase i'm the w0-
man question. But another feature
Of that famous jury has been brought
to light by the Laramie Sentinel
We give the paragraph, not as an ev.
lence that women should he jurors,
but az an example that men might
Initiate.
The Sentinel says:
"a little circumstance connected
with the late term of court comes to
our knowledge. which we are inclined
to make public. even at the risk of
betraying confidence. During the
long and tedious HOWE murder trial
the jury (of whom one half were la
diesl were not permitted to separate
ana 90 to their homes, but were un.
der the charge of balifis Zone lady
and one gentieman) taken to the ho-
tel for their meals, and lodging was
provided for them in the adjoining
parlors, each under charge of their
bailiff. Aud here, every morning
during the trial, upon Arising from
Their beds. these ladies knp5led to
gether, and like the child Solomon,
asked wisdom of God to enable them
to properly and wisely discharge
their new and arduous duties.
While their male associates W ere en-
gagged i'm beisterous mirth and trifi.
ing levity, they, with the full con
sciousness of the responsibility rest.
ing upon them, were seeking aid nj
the throne of the All Wise. We
We might perhaps thus he charged
with Introducing t,rO innovations
I'm not only having the first arc men !
jury. but the first praying jury ever |
known in modern times BIT ~ho |
of us dare scott at or ridicu,e them +?
Who of ms dare saw that they were
Tess ftted to stand between society |
and her violated laws, and the Grim !
inal Mt the bar? Who would feel |
less secure by having such n jury as
this to try his cause, If he were in
nocent Of crime?
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-04-08
Challenge to Fight
DYxer

| Last Monday while on business At
Grundy Center, George *. Shaw,
editor and proprietor of the atlas
challenged us to fight duel accord
ing to the rules of the "code." We
quietly informed him, i'm substance,
that If he hadn't known us to be n
Coward" he would never have
dared to say "duer'-We further de-
clined on the ground that when we set
ourself up to he shot at, we wanted
something besides the life OF an ass
ut stake on the other side. That. I'm
short it wouldn't pay for man who
had any character left, or who hadn't
been gifted" to stake his chances
with man who was hunting for
some one to kill him and get him out
Of his love.sick misery. But Mr..
Shaw followed us around for several
hours EARNED to the teeth" with
knife and revolver, the one lily con-
cealed i'm his pantaloons pocket, and
the other in his hand, the most Of
the time, continually branding us rs
coward" and other pet names (his
only stock I'm trade) until we reluci-
antly accepted" which Of course
gave us the choice of weap"ns"-
(Which do you take?" demanded
the brave editor--''puddinp sticks,'
we tremblingly replied--the distance
we desired, was Is inches, and the
only ddrdntdge we claimed was that
our antagonist stand with posterior
at an angle of As degrees. Bnt in this
mode Of duelling there wasn't Datr-
der enough to suit our knight of the
quill-Hn couldn't carry out his de-
sign of killing us and leaving an in
nocent wife and children TO mourn
our untimely end. His idea of
"honor" lies in sending sorrow he
reavement and death into the family
circle-in widowing n woman who
has always treated him with the ut
most kindness. and Orl'haning child
rem too tender i'm years to- care for
themselves. This is the acme Of
honor with the editor of the dti@s.
Talk about "c0ld bIoohed villainy !"
None but "cnld bloOd.d villains" de-
sire to kill other men-and man
who intends to murder another is the
coolest biOoded uHidin" of whom
we have any knowledge. No won
der Mr.. Shaw carries huge revolver
with the breech protruding from his
pocket around the streets of Grundy
Center, and on the holy Sabbath goes
to church with the same instrument
of death needlessly exposed to public
gaze. His idea of honor must be
guarded, and people Of refinement,
and wholly unaccustomed to the bar
barism of New Orleans must bear the
imputation of being called "canni-
balls, "assassins, "vagabonds, ""viI-
lains" "scouLdrels" aud her terms of
odium, because, fors0Oth, bravo" car
ries the tools" and is prepared to
blow the tops Of their heads off "if
they attempt to ''cr"ss his path"
That's fine for a conservator of good
morals IA manager of the public
press--a member, I'm good standing.
in an orthodox church, and man
who has repeatedly declared he
would enter the ministry if it We're
not for the fact, that the pay was
so Inadequate to the support of gen
hemdn." Such missionary of "mor-
ais" ought to be sent to the "mines,"
there he would meet the fright
man" in less than a week.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-04-08
Insa nc.

George X. Shaw of atlas noteriety
Is lahoring under insanity. superin'
duced by disappointment I'm love, o.
we arc no judge of that disease
There is a little girl in PlattviIl,
Wisconsin, whose personal attraction,
took fearful hold of George. a few
years ago, and he loved her "or
sight" and would have led her t.
HymPn's altar long time ago. y
hut she would't he led In short she
Tilted him. At this Dur literary
friend commenced his journalistic
PeregrinatiOns. He finally fetched
mp on the Minneapolis Tribune. one
Of the leading dailies of the North
west, as editor in chief, aud which
under his sagacious management
sunk 5000. last year.
From Minneapolis he peregrinated
to Font Dodge, where he fell violently
in love with another of earth's fair
ones, Who, like her Plattville sister.
concluded she could dispense with
the conjugal sevices of the "hriIliant''
George. He sorrOwfully departed
and came to this city and bought
a half interest in the GAZETTE. But
he soon learned that the new object
of his hearts best and most gushing
love was at Waterloo-How he sue
ceedc,i in his second spasm. was to
viainly depicted on his expressive
countenance when lie retained from
the seat of war. His return To Min
neapolis with the threat that lac
would bust" the Tribune if he was
not allowed his old place OH the Edi-
torial Staff did not have IA tendency
To dis'ipate the belief that he is H.
sane. His skill as "a fnancier, were
he not insane, would have suggested
the peril of undertaking to start d
rival paper i'm town where, with 10
competition, he had buried 5000 of
other mems money the year before.
These are not all the proofs positive
of mental arrangement. When he
was "a partner in the GAZETTE office
he ran the firm i'm debt for his own
private ben0tit at nearly all the stores
in town, buying jackknives, pima.
fores, and other traps of the like, and
not content with combining these
debts 10 Cedar Falls he extended the
obligations az the firm TO Chicago
uhb- known TO his partner. The
Chicago bill we informed him some.
time since must be paid forthwith.
The Cedar Falls debts he hasn't paid
up to this writing. And yet this black
hearted would-be duelist, brands the
Inhabitants of Grundy with all the
titles of intamy known i'm the vol
umn of billingsgate, and the editor
of this paper as dishonest swind-
ler." Lies are written all over his
contemplate carcass, as thick as
maggots will be in few days after
he gets through dueIing with Hyde.
Nobody but an insane idiot would
treat town as he has treated Grun.
dy, when their only crime was TO
suspect him of stealing, with circum-
stances IS dark rs midnight hanging
around him and increasing with
with every revolving day.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-04-08

A destructive fire occurred At
Davenport last Monday. Loss $780,
COZ.
General Ames Of Mississippi has
beer adm mitted 10 seat in the U. .,
Senate.
The decrease in the Public Debt
during the past month was nearly
s., 900, 900.
The President is preparing mes :
sage tn Congress, declaring General
Amnesty.
A man named Henry Lewis in
Chickasaw county committed suicide
by hanging himself last week.
A female Justice presides at Wy
oming Police Court. She is reported
very severe on "druuks" aud ''erring
sisters"
The Bible men have carried the
day in Cincinnati. Henry Ward
Beecher's opinion to the contrary
notwithstanding.
One of the ladies Oh the late jury
i'm Wyoming writes that she felt no
serious discomfort fran being shut
up four days. and would have held
out four months rather than be con.
WINGED by such an argument rs that
made by the counsel for the defense"
"Piucky women"
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-04-08
TIE GAZETTE
CEDAR FALLS, APRIL 8, 1870.
Brigham and his Follow

II reports are to he credited Brig.
ham Young and his followers are
preparing TO defend their possessions
against the sweeping provisions of
the Cullom hill Whether they will
die in the last ditch remains to be
proved. The House has PASSED the
bill OF Mr.. Cullom for the punish
ment of polygamy it Utah by "a to 80.
1t il now left with the Senate to de-
fermine whether this disgrace shall
at once and for ever lie abolished. 1t
cannot be that the Senate will falter
i'm prompt passage OF the bill. Con-
gress has been n long time in deter.
mining the desires of the people in
this respect. We want to see the
bill become law just az IL has passed
the House, without any lamentations
unless to increase the penalty for
bigamy. polygamy or concuhinape.
II nrovi,les that The Marshal of the
Territory shall select the grand and
petit jurors. which will enable him
to take them from the Anti Mormon
and Gentle population. though the
right Of challenge il reserved to the
accused In indictment for higamy &c. |
IT ia not necessary to prove the first
or subsequent marriages. but the ad
mission of the accused that he has
more than one wife, his acts recog.
nizing them as wives. hy introduce
ing, treating, or dAporting himself
toward them ~ such. IL to he regard
ed 80 sufficient evidence. After this
hill heco'Yes law. every man in
Utah who shall live with one woman
or more, other than his lawful wife
or wives. shall be adjudged. guilty Of
the crime of concnbinage, and pun
iehnble accordingly.
Brigham had therefore better seek |
. more congenial dime. on some
island far away where the wood. !
bine twineth," for his Haram camp.
The day of polygamy is doomed
whether the Senate answer the de.
mands of the people now or not.
Tolerance Of that evil has ceased to
be virtue i'm more than one respect
and its adjustment from the territory
Of the United States ia but question
Of time. $50 mote ii be-"
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-04-08
"Ingrati tude."

Shaw calls us ungrateful, because,
he alleges, that we could not have
bought the GAZETTE without the
aid of his money. As he has opened
this question we will lay before our
readers few facts: About The first
of December last, Shaw came 10 w.
with proposition that we "go In
with him and buy the GAZETTE of
fee" We frankly told him we had
no money to invest i'm it. whereupon
he voluntarily told US he had plenty
OF ready cash to buy 1t, and if we
would only buy i'm with him he
would furnish all the money, and
give us our own time to pay IL. pro
vided we would pay him ten per
cent. interest on our half of the in.
restment-we 10 have an equal share
OF the profits ana share, also, i'm the
expenses. At that time he had his
pockets lined with recommends, I"
chow many of them were forged we
don't know and in this way drew US
on. Instead of paying the cash as he
agreed to. he resorted to lying and
rascality. telling us that all but ST.
500 Of his money was i'm Minnesota,
but he could get it in few days.
But, said the blear.eyed villain,
"money ia worth more than ten per
cent, and We had better loan three
thousand dollars for a while. In this
way he got us TO put our name to
three thousand dollars worth of notes
ALL due in fifteen months--and he.
fore the ink got cold he threw off his
mask of deep depravity enough 10
state that he hadn't another cent to
put into the concern.
Such is the character of the re-
doubtable editor of the Grundy couu-
IS Atlas, who has maliciously attack
ed the character of every man i'm
Grundy Center. and seeks now to
defame as, He il the man who
whines persecution" while he
struts the streets OF our neighboring
town, following men around with
plenty OF the tools that belong to the
ASSASSIN, the midnight ro5bor and
the nurderotts dueiist.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-04-08

Shaw says If he "recollects right"
WE represented Mr.. Clarksol as be-
ing present at the New Hartford
convention. We represented no
such thing. The literary "sksezicks"
who presides over the atlas has an
exceedingly defective memory
While he was in partnership with
us in the GAZETTE office, 1t SD chap
pened," that every dag we we're i'm
the office he managed to sell some
papers, and it also so HAPPENED"
that every day we were abtent he
did not sell any, or at least here is
not an entry on the cash book show
ing that single copy was sofa. OF
course, 1t so happened" His mem
DRY was to blame; but from the day
it occurred until the present fine,
we have looked upon George X.
Shaw as one of the most dishonest
scoundrels unhung, No wander
Hyde found him after midnight
looking around his bed. Had he
been honest, he wouldn't have acted
50 strangely the morning after the
Grundy Center robbery, that the
boarders ut Slifers suspected him of
the stealing, and offering as an ex
cuse for their not taking his money
aud watch, that the watch during
the night had stopped, and because
it didn't tick they didn't find it,
although it was bright moonlight
Strange, indeed, that u burglar
should so far respect his Royal High
ness as to leave his valuables in his
possession, and take property to the
amount of hundreds of dollars be-
longing to two men who s0ork for a
living. If he is not the thief who
stole the money of Hyde brothers,
there is no "hunor among thieves
or else they would have left the
money of two honest men aud taken
The Loose cash belonging to villain
hp rdened in crime, In which case
Shaw would have been the loser.
So much fm his memory. He
never remembers his debts until lie
Is uunned repeatedly.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-04-08

REV. o. B. birmingham, who
thanked God for what Richardson
and Mrs. Mcfarland had been to
each other, is preaching against the
action OF Congress ia relation To
Utah. He contends that the State
has no right 10 interfere with polyg-
amy. Such sentiments are only i'm
keeping with the man. lilo is in
n fair way to become Brisham's
right bower. ... ~a.
Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-04-08
TIE .SarsqpariYa DiqQers of

The SarsGpdriRd Diggers Of Ys,-
ca'dn.--- This singular set OF
people are descended from the an
cient Aztecs Of Southern Mexico,
and still retain some of the Pc
culiarities which Stephens and Pres
colt gave of their ancestors. DIR. J..
c. Aver & Co., employ small army
OF them In digging Sarsaparilla root.
Provided with narrow spades, a coil
of rope, and a bag of water, they are
ready for the forest where the wild
banana furnishes feed. and the thick
leaved trees their only shelter. Few
of those who find themselves reju-
venated by this product, know how
much they are indebted to the toll
of these humble laborers who dig
health for thousands of DR.. Ayers
patrons, while they sometimes lose
their own Boston Commercial.