Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-01-04
Out I'm the Cold.

CO-ts,
bert s,raus, for driving wagon without license;
Out I'm the Cold.
LITTLE BOY OF FOUR YEARS LOST IN THE
FOREST, WITH THE MERCURY AT ZERO.
From the New Philadelphia (Ohio) Advocate
One week ago last Wednesday morning, the
mercury was at zero, and though it moderated
some, wind sprung up, and the air was filled
with snow flakes. making it very cold. A Ger
man citizen named HOOprch started to the
woods to cut pole to prepare for butchering.
His little boy, four years cid, saw the direction
he took, and after he had gone some time slipped
out at the gate and followed. The father re-
turned at noon, not having seen the child. He
was missed, but supposed to be at some neigh
bOrs house, and was not hunted for until to-
wards night. He could not be found, and the
town was aroused, and squads sent out in all
directions with lanterns, but to no purpose
Next morning the search was renewed. Just
before noon the little fellow was found
by Fred. Moffatt, who was out cunning.
His dog discovered him and attracted his at
tentOn by barking. The little fellow had wan
dered about a mile and half from town, and
had lain exhausted on pile of sawdust in a
clearing. not 200 yards from the house of Josiah
Chase, on the Spangler farm He was living on
his face, with his knees under him, with his left
hand under his body, and the right one on the
back OF his head He was without mittens. and
only dressed in his common clothes. When
found he was entirely unconscious, with the
blood oozing from his mouth and nose, and no
pulse perceptible except at the temple. He had
been out in the cold for over twenty-four hours,
and had he not been very feshy and full Of
animal life he would have persisted. He re-
manned unconscious twenty-four hours, but is
rapidly recovering. He may lose the first joints
of his fingers on the right hand, but will not
otherwise show the effects of his freezing.
THE COLORED PEOPLE LEAVING ILLINOIS,
We understand (says the st. Louis republican,
that in the counties of Madison and Macoupin,
Illinois, quite large number of the cOlored peO
pie are emigratng southwark with the intention
u emigration =
composed of the shiftless good-fo nothing class
who always have been, and always will be, a
burden to themselves and to society, but is
mainly, If not exclusively, drawn from the
thrifty, industrious freedom African, who,
even before emancipation and eRfranchise-
ment, had elevated the race and gained
the respect of the communities i'm which
they dwelt, by their ability to make an honest
living, without assistance. These men-farmers.
mechanics, and labOrers for the most part
are going with their families to the South,
intending to make that section their future
home; hut this step has not been taken without
due delberation and examination. For a year
or two past, the eOlOred people in the counties
mentioned have sent some of the most intelli-
gent and trustworthy of their number into the
states bordering upon the lower Mississippi and
Gull Tor the express purpose OF ascertaining the
exact condition of affairs and the inducements
to immigration there offered. The commission
ers, If we may call them such, have not been
content to simply look around here and there,
make a few inquiries and return, but they have
actually located themselves and gone to work at
their respective avocatOns-thus giving the ex-
pertinent a fair, practical trial. The result has
been eminently satisfactory, and the advance
guard are now calling upon the main army to
follow.
PEOFLIGACY IN THE BRITISH PEERAGE-H
is inconceivable that in the present condition OF
political affairs in England, when the abolition
OF the House OF Lords is seriously discussed and
the very continuance of the monarchy is in
danger, the aIistOcracy should still present in
stances of wasteful folly as well calculated to
disgust the people as the worst excuses of the
French noblesse before 1889 What a weapon in
the hands of Sir Charles Dixie, for example, is
the conduct OF Lord COurtenay, the eldest son
and heir to the title Of the Earl OF Devon. Lord
Courtenay has recently gone into the bankrupt
ey court with debts amounting to the astound-
ing sum OF t32l ,306, or more than 81 900 900.
This criminal prodigality was not the result of
Youthful madness, like that OF the late Marquis
Of Hastings or the present Duke of Hamilton,
who squaIs;aered vast fortunes in few months
of fast life; il was the elimination of years of
ruiDous extravaganza, for LORD Courtenay Is
thirty-fve, and has been mounting up 10 this
height Of infamy ever since his coming of age.
With recent warnings beyond number OF the
end of such a course, with Odger and Boales
haranguiDg the people against privileged class
the younger representatives OF the peerage
ought certainly TO keep out of the bankruptcy
court and be on their good behavior; yet their
follies are such as to bring up the very trite
aphorism, the origin of which has not yet been
traced, that the gods first deprive of reason
those whom they wish to destroy.-N..Y. Post.
"THR TRAP-GUN TRAGRDYn in Newark.
n. j., few nights since, whereby the burglar
Henley lost his life while trying to enter a store
door, inside of which the deadly weapon was
liked, and the verdict of the corOner's jury ex-
onerating Mr.. Parker, who planted the trap
gun, from all blame, has been mentioned in
The STAR. Judge Depree, at the court-house
in Newark on Tuesday, charged the grand jury,
and In reference to this instance of citizen
taking the law into his own hands said that
'the consequences likely to result from the
general adoption of this system of defence of
property can only be imagined, and considera-
ti0ns OF public policy must condemn q resort to
II as unlawful and homicide Occasioned by an
illegal act is felonons and an indictable crime.
crime when he came to his death, was not en-
gagged in the commission of an 0ffense for which
by law his life was a forfeit"
An ENGLISH "FIRR-BUa."-The London
papers report a most remarkable case Of crime.
On the 18th of December q blacksmith of
twenty-o years. named Williams Anthony,
was tried Tor fire. raising, and IL was shown In
evidence that he made q regular trade Of setting
fire to yards and buildings, often with people in
them; for the sake of the half crown which Lon
don hrenen pay for early information. He was
convicted Of this crime In five instances, and Is
believed TO have committed Ii in thirty-six,
while his arrest has actually reduced the num-
Der OF fires occurring in London from unknown
causes from twenty i've a month to three. The
judge inflicted twelve years. penal servitude, a
sentence scarcely adequate to the offence, which
The Spectator says: GA man of that kind would
burn city for five shillings, andis more danger
Gus than any number Of Communists. They
had at least an appreciable motive"
HrThe following notice, printed on colored
ard-boards with a nice border, hangs up in q
place OF business in Rome, n. Y, "Mebbe you
don't peter had loaf rount here, ven you don't
got some peesiniss, Amt it?''
- Beckman W. Andrews, broker, was ar
rested in New York yesterday at the instance of
Miss Amelia Graham, who accuses him of