The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-07-14

i MEMPHIS, July 6.-In the United
States Court for the Northern District
of Mississippi, during the term, the
Grand Jury returned forty-fiYe true
bills under the enforcement act, embra-
cling over three hundred persons for
whipping, fighting, and numbering
white men and negroes. Twenty per-
Icons accused of various crimes under
TEhe same act were liberated on bail 10
appear at the December term.
LONDON, July, 6.-Frederick William
Crown Prince and the Prince Imperial
of Germany accompanied by the Prin-
cess Victoria arrived in London this
evening and was received at the station
by the Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Crown Prince brings with him an
order from Black Eagle which he will
confer ON Count Bernstaff the German
Ambassador to Count St. James.
1 PARIS, July 6.-The Republican press
i are annoyed at the continuous state of
the seige in Paris switch they declare
needless and oppressive. 1t is said that
the first act in assembly as soon as the
newly elected deputies take seats it will
prolong the powers of THEIRS as Chief
of the executive nation for two years.
WASHINGTON, July THE civil SER
vice commission has taken no positive
action of any kind as yet, but is en-
ployed in Investigations in practical
workings of various departments of the
/ government.
From known views of members of
the Commission, it may be safely pre-
dicted that the tenure of Office of Gov
eminent employees viii not be arbitrar
| lily fixed, as in such case the response
biiity of each officer would be thrown
| from its chief INTO the hands of the
clerk who could not be made account
able except in extraordinary instances.
| The principle question which demands
attention of the commission, though it
may not have arisen in precise form, is,
| how shall the power or motive to re-
| move one person for no reason but to
create place for another to be taken
away. With this problem solved it is
generally believed the tenure of the Of
| flee will be regulated by the demand of
efficient service. What shall be done
with the thirty thousand postmasters is
one of the practical questions now I'M
der examination.
New YORK, July IAN Indictment
for perjury against naval officer Latin,
of this port, has beet found by the
grand jury of Herkimer county, and
the trial is set down for next week. The
CIRCUMSTANCES OI ING case dTC liLJl0T-
stood to be these:
Some time ago brother of the naval
officer entrusted to the latter bond for
safe keeping. This, it is said, was fold
ed up and placed imam envelope in the
naval officers desk; one day, when
sending off official documents, the ma
val officer accidentally slipped one of
them into an envelope containing the
bond, and that and the official document
were posted together. The bond could
not be traced for long time, but was
afterwards discovered in the possession
of a tailor at Herkimer. The owner of
the bond, when he heard of this, brought
suit against the tailor for its recovery
and present charge of perjury against
the naval officer, grows out of evidence
given in the case. Friends of the latter
declare that the prosecution is malicious.
A prominent and impartial officer of
the court also telegraphs that the an
nouncement of an indictment does Laf-
lin wicked injustice.
/ LONDON, July Z Great freshets have
occurred in Derwent Wye on the Sew
ern and Casia rivers, and they have
caused heavy losses to farmers by the
destruction of buildings and crops.
Unusallv severe thunder storms have
visited the suburbs of London. Many
churches were set on fire by lightning
and destroyed, and number of lives
lost.
PARIS, July THE Pope has writ
| ten to Theirs that he will remain in
Rome. Numerous Algerian tribes have
given in their submission and the end of
the Instruction is near at hand.
WASHINGTON, July Ton special in
quiry at the Department of Agriculture
to-day it was officially ascertained that
there has been no analysis ofcotton and
other reports for July. Not more than
three-fourths of them having been re-
ceived, and more is expected from
Texas and other distant States.
LEW YORK, July S.-A special from
| Washington states that Senator Schurz
has written letter to gentleman in
Washington, in which he strongly eX-
presses himself in favor of Chas. Fran
els Adams, of Massachusetts, for Vice
President of the United States in 1872.
| CHICAGO, July Sth.-The testimony
given before the coroner's jury on Sum
| day last at Onarga, ILL.,, by Mrs. Meara
and her daughter Sarah, in the case of
Martin Meara, under examination, for
| whipping and otherwise torturing his
son to death, shows the crime of Meara
to be one of the most fiendish and re-
voting IN the history of tie State
Mary Meara, wife of the man and moth
er of the boy, testified as follows: My
husband whipped Martin two weeks
ago Tuesday night. My babe was born
on that day, and / did not see the whip
ping. It was done in another room. /
heard blows and heard the child beg for
mercy. The child then went to bed
about ten o'clock. Next morning he
came into my bedroom, followed by
his father, who was whipping him. He
whipped him very hard with black
snake horsewhip, the child lodging
around the room so as to avoid the
blows, and begging for mercy. He was
completely marked, his father having
compelled him to strip himself. His
face was swollen from the whipping he
had received the night before. His
father whipped him very hard for ten
or fifteen minutes. At last he stopped
and told the boy to put on his shirt. He
made an effort to do so and failed. His
father repeated the order, when the boy
said: al can't see it: / can't see it."
'You can't see it !" responded the father.
mo, father, / can't see you, father. l
can't sec iather," and fell dying. The
fiend then rubbed the boy with spirits
and forced some down his throat. The
child then raised his hands, moved his
| lips, and expired. Meara then took the
body, put it under the bed where the
sick woman was lying, and it remained
there until evening, when he buried it,
as previously reported.
Sarah Meara, daughter of the muir
derer, aged fourteen years, testified that
her father often whipped him very Sc
verely with horsewhip. On Tuesday,
two weeks ago, he brought brother in
and said he had not worked, and whip
ped him twice. Father continued to
whip him, and said he would whip him
until he could not stand up. On two
or three occasions he said that he would
/ say that he would whip the life out of
him, and two or three times he would
say this, and brother would plead with,
/ 9sFather, father, don't whip me any
more oh, don't whip me any more"
He was a good boy, and 1 liked him.
He went to bed about ten O'Clock. He
/ did not know why father whipped him
so. lie never told stories, only when
] father made him do SO. Father would
say that if he didn't own that he did SO,
The would whip him, and to avoid the
whipping, he Wonid own to things he
ON wednesday, + got UP and got
breakfast. Father rose when breakfast
was ready. Brother got up, but felt so
badly that he went to bed again. Faith
er made him get up md 60 out and find
Il stock When he came back, father