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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-09

The Eastern question, we are now assured,
was amicably settled in the London Confer
ence yesterday This is gratifying to know,
but then it has been fOregOne conclusion
ever since it became apparent that Russia and
Turkey had a secret understanding in regard
TO the navigation of the Black Sea- that the
other Powers would have little to insist on.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-09

NJ. Jules Fayre has asked for an extension of
the Armistice. 1t argues favOrably for the
early return of peace that the Germans are
disposed TO grant it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-09
Gnsinees Noiltes.

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The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09
SWindling.

An aged gentleman by the name of
Amos Atkinson, an old and respected
citizen of Liverpool, Medina county,
came to Cleveland Tuesday and re-
ported to the police that he had been
swindled out of over 500 by a man
whom he supposed to be in this city
His statement of the affair is to the
effect that one John w. Fulton ap-
preached him with the pretended OBJ
ject of inducing him to enter into a
copartnership with him in a grocery
store in that village. Mr.. Atkinson
consented. Fulton then wanted some
money with which to buy stock. MI.
Atkinson gave him $50 in money and
a check on a Cleveland bank for $50
more. Fulton left after having OBJ
tanned the money and draft, coming
to Cleveland. Mr. Atkinson's suspi-
cions we're aroused in some way, and
he followed and caused the arrest
Tuesday morning of Fulton. The
latter, after being imprisoned awhile,
gave back the check and S3S,25 in
money, and left a watch with the po-
lice as security for the balance. AS
no articles of agreement had been
signed he could not be prosecuted un-
der the statute, but will be before the
police court tomorrow on a charge OF
suspicion eUeland Platndealer.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09
Jefferson Davis.

Whether JEFF. Davis has been prac-
ticing the amusemeats of a good many
political parsons of the Radical persua'
sion, is a matter about which very few
people care a snap. The following.
however, from the Baltimore Sun Of
Wednesday last, would seem to dis
pose of the highly spiced story the
Cincinnati Gazstteprinted with astound
ing head lines and unmistakable rel
ish. The San says:
ga ridiculous story is going the
rounds of a sensational press to the
effect that Hon. Jefferson Davis rar
off with another mans wife ON Tues
day night, the 18th instant, from
Memphis, Tennessee, taking the train
for Huntsville Alabama. As there i:
a class of people who are ready to be-
lieve anything that may be said o
the Confederate ex-President. it vii
not be amiss to state that he was a
Barnum's hotel, in Baltimore, OF
Wednesday, the 18th instant, which
would have allowed him about tweu-
ty-four hours in which to make a tril
of some nine hundred miles. o
course the story is a pure fabrication
and a very disgraceful one for thu
author"
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09
Robert J. Walkers Duel.

In our chapter on dueling, in last
Mondays Mosaic, we omitted an
amusing incident which occurred a
good many years ago between two men
in Mississippi, whose names have since
become historical in the annals of this
country. We refer to Robert J. Walk
er and Dr.. William M. Gwin, Duke
of Sonora. An alteration occurred
between them which led to a challenge
from Mr.. Walker. Walker was a
man of diminutive size, while the doc
tor lowered like a giart, with the
Drawn and bone of Il London porter.
Walker was bent on fighting /; but the
Doctor who was naturally a jovial and
kind hearted soul did not feel at all
aggrieved toward his adversary.
Be that as it might, the Doctor ac-
cepted the challenge, and chose the
Indian tomahawk as his weapon. The
terms were so arranged that on a Civ
en- day the combatants were SO to be
posted one hundred and fifty yards
apart, and at a given signal, to rush
past each other like knights in a tour
ney, finging their tomahawks in their
course.
The Doctor caused it to be bruited
abroad that he practiced every day in
a savannah, a few miles away from
the town where both resided. Piqued
with curiosity, Mr.. Walker allowed
himself to be persuaded to visit the
spot surreptitiously, and view the
achievements of his antagonist. Not
so surreptitiously, however, that DIR.
Gwin was not unaware whose prying
eyes were fixed upon his movements.
Measuring off one hundred and fifty
PAGES from the solitary stump of a pine
tree, the Doctor bounded with a spring
and a yell that would have delighted
C~hinachook, the venerable padre of
the last OF the Mohegans his toma-
hawk poised high in the air, a grin of
demoniac ferocity lighting up his
strongly marked features. AS he
neared the stump he projected the
missile, with a powerful sweep of his
arm, eileen up to the handle into the
soft pine, and, painting, came to dead
halt.
There was something so ludicrously
savage in all this, that Mr.. Walker
and his companion burst involuntarily
into a fit of laughter from their am
bush. The laugh betrayed them; a
reconciliation took place, and up to
the breaking out of the Confederate
war, and, it may be, up to Mr.. Walk
er's death, they were fast friends
NeaU Orleans Times.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09
Negro Outrage.

On the 10Th instant a negro named
Charles Hammond. violated the per-
son of a little white girl at Union
City, Ohio. The villain escaped, and
OIL the following day overlook a very
beautiful young lady, nineteen years
of age, by the name of Nary j. Clay,
while she was going to visit a neigh
Dor, near Woodington, in Darke Co.,
and by brute force ravished her. She
cried for help, but all in vain. He
then ROBBED her of her handkerchief
and pen knife. She Immediately ran
to the nearest house and told her tale
of woe, the finger marks of violence
being upon her neck. The negro was
pursued, caught, and the knife and
handkerchief found upon his person.
He is now in the Darke county Jail.
Both the girls have visited the prison
and recognize the fend as the guilty
one.
Had these outrages been committed
in the South. and the victims been
colored women, what a cry of "Ku-
Klux" would have gone up all over
the land. But being white girls OF
Ohio, and the perpetrator of the fear
full outrage being a negro, why, of
course, the circumstances will be be-
meath the notice of Grants Ku-Klux
Committee -C2ermont co., Sun.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09
An Indiana Tragedy.

INDIANAPOLIS. July 31.-The COM
munity about London, Shelby County,
about fourteen miles from this city, is
much excited i've an attempted muir
der, the particulars of which are as
follows:
A young man named Ellington, in
the employ of Tinsley Smith, a we'll
TODD tarmer near London, became
enamored of Smiths daughter, Lizzie,
an amiable and accomplished young
lady, and proposed to her, but vas in
formed that she was betrothed to an
other. He persisted in his suit, and
on Saturday took her to a Sunday
school picnic. While there she spent
some time in the society of her be-
trothed, which enraged Ellington, and
for the sake of peace she returned
home. On the way he again urged
his suit, and was answered as before.
He declared he would kill her if she
did not marry him. She took no fur
ther notice of his threat than to men
ton it to a cousin who was visiting
her.
While all the family except Lizzie,
her cousin and Ellington were at
church, the latter followed Lizzie into
the yard, threw her down, choked her
till insensible, then jumped upon and
stamped her body with his heavy
boots, and finally beat her on the face
and head with a brick, cutting off one
ear, crushing her skull, and breaking
her jaw, besides mangling her face in
a shocking manner. He then fled to
the woods.
Mary Smith, the cousin of Lizzie,
gave the alarm, and the girl was
speedily cared for, but her physicians
say she can not live. Ellington was
afterward arrested He asked if the
girl was dead, and when told that she
was not, expressed the hope that she
would die. He is now in jail at Shell
byville. A strong disposition was
manifested to lynch him.
Joe Atkinson, at one time we'll
known in this city, who was sent to
the Southern Penitentiary on a two
years sentence for passing counterfeit
money, died in that institution this
morning. He had only about five
weeks yet to serve.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09
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Mt imparts tone and v1gor to the Uteru
Land gives enewed Vitality to the whole
system. 1t is peculiarly adopted to the fol-
lowing affections Painful Menstrual dis
charges, Suppression of the enses, Profuse
Menstruation, Leucorrhea or v hites, Ul-
cerated Uterus, &c.
DIR. J. King, of Cincinnati, anthor of
'Woman: Her Diseases and their
Treatment" says-"The most important
means to produce health among females is
to strengthen and invigorate the reproduc-
tive organs. This medicine appears to ex-
ert a specific influence upon the Uterus. 1t
is a valuable agent in all arrangements of
the Female Reproductive Organs.
CDR. Conant, of Worcester, Mass, says
II nse it in nty practice. 1t will in nearly
every case prevent three-fourths of the suf-
fering to which many females are liable.
DIR. J. D. Young, of Boston, Mass, says
'I fully concur with DR.. Conant in his re-
concentration.
DR.. Willard G. George, formerly Profess
sor in the Worcester Medical College, and
President of the Eclectic Medical Society,
Massachusetts, says Il regard it as QUE of
the best medicines for Female Complaints
that can be found"
DIR. E Smith, President of the New-York
Association of Botanic Physicians, says
"No Female, if in delicate health. should
omit the use of this valuable Cordial.
Price. 81, or six bottles for SIS. BeSIf
your Druggist will not supply yon, send
orders by mail tc John D. Park. Whole
sale Agent, Cincinnati. Ohio. Prepared at
the NEW-ENGLAND BOTANIC DE-
". K. FoLTz, Gg't, Ashland, ohia.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09
Bold Robbery in Medina County.

We have information. from DIR. S..
w. I~ngraham, that on Saturday fore
noon, July 29th' Mr.. Gay, living five
miles from Medina, was robbedsof six
thousand dollars, of which sum one
thousand dollars were in greenbacks,
and five thousand in U. S. Bonds
The robbery was committed in the fol.
lowing manner:
MIR. Gay is a man of about sixty
years of age, whose wife has been dead
several years. He lives on his old
homestead, and his son, who is named
Lewis, lives with him. The old gen
of the family were attending a picnic
in the neighborhood. About noon Mr..
Gay, who had been at work in his
barn, eight or ten rods from the house,
heard his dog, which was shut up in
the kitchen, bark, and started to see
what it MAS for. When about half
way between the barn and the house
he was met by a couple of men, who
were strangers to him, dressed in black
pants, linen coats and plug hats. He
vas on the point of speaking to them
when the larger one, who had a police
mans star on his breast, pointed a re
voIver at his head, and the other clap
ped him or the shoulder, saying, Il
arrest you in the name of the United
States as a counterfeiter," at the same
time putting his hands in irons. They
then blindfolded him and took him
into the house, where they threw him
on the floor and tied his legs together.
They then carried him into an adjoin-
ing bed room, put him on the bed and
tied his feet to the bottom of the bed
stead, demanding the key of his safe,
which he told them was in the desk on
the bureau During this time they
told him if he made any noise or spoke,
they would blow his brains out. Be,
ing unable to find the key to the safe
they blew it open with powder, robbed
it of five thousand dollars in United
States bonds and one thousand dollars
in bills. One of the robbers remained
in the bed room to watch Mr.. Gay,
while the other performed the job
They succeeded in making their escape
but were seen by several people Mr.
Gay succeeded in releasing himself in
a short time and went to the picnic
grounds and gave the alarm. The
roads and woods we're secured, but the
robbers were not found. They left 8
satchel and a number of burglars
tools. Mr.. Gay was driven into Me
dina and had the irons cut off there
Wooster Republican.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09
.Musket Balls in the Human Body

In Hazer's Magazine we find the
following:
ga number of curious cases of the
progress of musket balls from the
place where they are first lodged hav-
ing been observed by military surgeons
We have heard of q remarkable case
where the musket ball struck the fore
head above the nose, and having divi-
ded into two halves, one half went
round beneath the skin on the right
side, and the other on the left, advanc-
ing in contact with the skull. We DO
not ask our readers to believe the
poetical edition of this fact. that the
two half bullets met again behind,
after having performed the circuit of
the head in opposite directions, and
advancing with a slightly diminished
force, united and killed an unfortunate
man who stood in their way; but The
fact of the splitting of the bullet, and
the advance of each half in opposite
directions is unquestionable. The sin.
gular progress of a musket bullet from
the forehead to the throat has been
recorded by DR.. Fielding. AT the
first battle of Newberry, 1913, in the
time of the Cromwellian civil war, a
medical gentleman was shot. near the
right eye. The skull was fractured
at the place, but though the surgeon
could see the pulsation of the brain
beneath the wound, yet the bullet had
turned on one side and could not be
discovered. Various bones were dis
charged from the wound, the mouth
and the nostrils. At the time of the
second battle OF Newbury the wound
healed and could not be kept open ;
but about twelve years afterward,
when the doctor was riding in a cold
dark night, he felt a pain about the
'almons of the ear which occasioned
a partial deafness. Having stopped
his ear with wool, he was surprised
one day in March, 1870, by a sudden
pull or crack in his ear, when all that
side of his cheek hung loose as if it
had been paralytic, and a hard knot
was felt under the ear. Various tu-
mors now appeared about the throat,
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09
Statement of the Doctor Who Wit
messed the Death of the Double
Children-A Remarkable Event.

[From the Delaware (O.) Gazette, 2sth.]
Knowing that your numerous read
ers will be anxious to hear something
in regard to the wonderful double
child's death, I send you the following
hasty and imperfect statement
Their death presented a strange
appearance, and excited the curiosity
and pity of all present. They were
nine months and six days old, and died
at Temple House, No. 6Bowdoin St,
Boston, Massachusetts,, July Is, 1871.
They had always enjoyed excellent
health from their birth until July 4,
when on exhibition in Newark, n. Y,
Minnie showed symptoms of illness,
and had a severe attack Of cholera In.
fantum, and came near death to all
appearances, and remained SO for
about three days, when she commenced
recovering very rapidly. This sick
ness seemed to affect Minnie but very
little at the time, but about the 18th
inst. Minnie was attacked with con
tinual vomiting. which was very diff
cult to manage, and this tendency d
sickness at the stomach continued
more or less until about 8 o'clock in
the morning of the 18th, when she
had several light commissions, after
which she sank gradually until 4:35
in the evening, when she breathed
her last, and the heart belonging tc
her stopped beating. She was dead,
to all appearance, without a struggle,
and looked as if sleeping pleasantly,
in which condition she remained for
one hour and forty-five minutes, when
she commenced gasping for breath,
and artificial means was resorted to to
restore respiration. This gasping con-
tinued at short intervals until 7:15,
when she gave the last gasp.
After this, Nina, who had been
perfectly well, to all appearance, until
Minnie stopped breathing, showed
signs of uneasiness and continued
sinking very rapidly, and died at SID,
just one hour from the time that Min
ME gave the last gasp for BREATH
They both died very easy, and looked
as if going into a pleasant sleep, and
never gave a struggle, and now they
are quiet and lovely to look upon in
death, as they always were in life
The two souls have passed from the
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09

one body to the God that gave them
this truly wonderful and curious body.
They apparently escaped the ordina-
ry suffering incident to death, for the
c-ountenances had the expression of
sweet repose. Through the influence
of myself and several Of the leading
physicians of Boston we had a fine
plaster cast taken of the child, which
1 can have duplicated at any time for
the benefit of science. After this we
had a post norton examination which
revealed many wonderful curiosities,
both in anatomy and physiology, a
full account of which will be shortly
given in the Boston Medical and Sur
gical journal.
The exciting cause of their death
was a cystic abdominal tumor, weigh
ing three pounds and six ounces. 1
may, at some future time, give you a
more detailed account of this wonder
full beings life as we'll as its DEATH
Yours very respectfully,
H. BEssE, NJ. D.
The Delaware Gazette says editorily:
DIR. Besse reached his home in this
place on Saturday evening last. The
post-mOrtens examination, at which he
assisted, developed the fact that the
connection of the viscera in the two
bodies-if we may SO speak of the two
opposite sections or ends of the child
takes place by interjunction-of the in
t~estines just above the colon, which Or
gan is not duplicated but is common for
both infants. There was also but one
womb and one bladder, the latter being
the receptacle of two different ureters.
Above the colon all the organs were du-
plicated and perfect as in any well de-
veloped human being.
The body of the child or children,
was carefully embalmed and put into o
casket containing alcohol, and having
glass facings, which afford a good view
of the body, which is well preserved
In the casket the child looks na~turaland
appears as If in repose. 1t has been
brought by the parents to their home
near Ashley, where it yet remains. The
Boston Medical Society offered six thou
sand dollars for it, but the offer has been
declined. Probably not less than ten
thousand dollars would induce the pa
rents to part with the treasure.
The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-09
Duped by Gipsies.

An old gentleman in Polk county,
Mo-, of considerable wealth, was some
time since made the victim of mis-
placed confidence in the following way,
as related by the Bolivar Free Press :
A band of gipsies appeared in the
neighborhood, remaining several days.
a woman belonging to the party made
the acquaintance of the old gentleman
and communicated to him the start
ling intelligence that a large amount
of treasure was concealed on his place.
and that by obeying her instructions
he could secure it. This he agreed to
do. She then informed him that he
must deposit all his money in a GER
tain place. After the lapse of a few
days the whereabouts of the treasure
would be revealed to him. He &C.
cordingly deposited the sum of 1920
in a hiding place known only to him
self and the gypsy. When several
days had passed, she again appeared
unto him, stating that her lamentations
would not work, and assigning as a
reason hat he had failed to deposit all
Of his money in the hiding place, as
stipulated. He hen added ST. more
to the amount, but still the spell which
was to result in laying bare the hidden
wealth proved unsuccessful. He then
agreed to let the gypsy take the pack
age of money into her keeping, in or
der to facilitate her COMPUTATIONS. She
kept it several days. then returned
with the entire amount, and they
counted it over together. The gypsy
then informed him he must, to com
plete the charm, secrete the package
once more, for a period of ten days;
that he must not, in the meantime,
look at or go near it. This was as
scented to, and the package vas once
more carefully sealed up and commit
ted to his a When ten days had
expired, he proceededto the place of
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