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The Republican journal., 1873-05-22
Murder Again.

Scarce is the public mind in this state
| relieved of the horror of the immediate
presence Of the double murder and fearful
| retributlon in Aroostook, when it is
shocked anew by the terrible midnight
assassination at Warren. 1t seems as
though an epidemic of murder has broken
out in our usually quiet borders, and that
the pistol, the axe, the knife and the rope
are invoked in locations that have hitherto
been stranger to their vengeful use
The killing of Dr. Baker bids fair to
become one of the most interesting cases
that has ever been written upon the pages
of criminal records There is In it enough
of the play OF passion, of love, anger,
jealousy, revenge and remorse, to furnish
the material for a first class noyel-and
all occurring in one of the most staid and
quiet communities in sober Maine. We
sometimes think that Hawtho mes Scarlet
Letter, descriptive of primitive New Eng
land life, is not an unfaithful picture of
the hidden currents of existence here to-
day-that under the decorous habits and
cold demeanor of men and women into
whose natures the SHOWS and frosts of the
climate seem to have entered there are
hidden emotions as strong, desires as
warm and impulses as headlong as the
sun lights up in the souls of those born and
nurtured in southern climes Occasion
sionally the lava crust breaks through, as
in the case under notice, and we see the
Volcano seething beneath. Just consider
thu features of this case. A physician of
education, of good family, and presumably
man of mind and fair personal appear
ance, takes for his housekeeper young
and impressible woman Living thus
under one roof and in daily contact, the
result which every older and cooler head
foresees, inevitably comes to pass. If|
love with wcdlock cannot be had on her
part, love outside of it is accepted A
child is born, illegitimate, despite her
pleadings for the laws sanction of its
birth,--a child which in her frenzy she
Stranges as soon as born. Then comes
the sense of wrong to herself, mingled
with lingering love for her paramour-
all the manifestations of which are annoy
ances to him, until he seeks another
locality to be rid of them. But a strange
fascination brings him back, as though his
fate was Turing him on. Despite the sense
of wrong on one side, and estrangement
on the other, the old associations are re-
newed, the smouldering passions revived
One fatal night the frenzied woman stag
gers to a neighbor's door, with cry for
help, and search reveals the disrobed dead
man on her chamber floor, with fatal
shot in his side. No weapon is found, no
footprints revealed. Did a third person
do the fatal deed-or did the woman,
while caressing with one hand. murder
with the other? The dead tell no tales.
Over all broods the mystery of an awful
crime, the veil of which may never be
lifted.
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22

In giving place, as we do to-day, to q
review oi the comments by e" upon the
report which we published of the Call di-
vorce case, we desire to say that the report
itself was in our judgment fair one, in
which the adverse sides were as fully pre-
columns would permit. and that offence
ought not to have been taken by any one.
Having admitted an article in comment
thereon by the friends of each side, the con
troversy must now cease, so far as this
paper is concerned
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22
louisiana.

The condition of affairs in poor, op-
pressed Louisiana in no better. Every
few days an outbreak occurs, accompanied
by bloodshed. The action of the federal
government, in setting aside an election.
and inaugurating the defeated candidates
by the power of the army, is bearing its
natural fruits. The action of the Presi
dent was only to subvert free government
and establish despotic rule in the State.
1t set aside the Constitution. 1t was
simply usurpation and despotism. The
people are alarmed and business is inter-
rupted in the States. So much for the
action OF the President and his advisers.
who have thus decided that the people
are not fiji to govern themselves.
This state of things was clearly foreseen
and warned against by the friends of the
administration, but the warning passed
unheeded. A committee of the U. S.
Senate, appointed to investigate the con-
dition Of Louisiana and suggest measures,
of which Carpenter, Logan, Alcorn and
Anthony were members. made report
last winter, in which they said
The people of the State are about equally
divided in sentiment in regard to these pre-
tended governments. The people of New
Orleans, which is the seat of government. sup.
port the McEnerv government two to one, and
it is believed that if the Federal support were
withdrawn Hom the Kellogg government, it
would be Immediately supplanted by the Me-
Emery government. The people of the State as
body, neither support nor submit to either
government. Neither government can collect
taxes, for the people have no assurance that
payment 10 the one will prevent collection by
the other government. Business is interrupted.
public confidence destroyed, and should Con-
gress adjourn without making provision for
the case, on Of two things must lesult: Either
collision and bloodshed between the adherents
OF the two governments, or the President must
continue the support of Federal authority to
the Kellogg government. The alternative of
civil war, or the maintainance by military
power of a State government not elected is ex-
ceedingly embarrassing; and in the opinion of
your committee, the best solution of the diff
Guilty is for Congress to order reelection and
provide for holding it under authority of the
United States, to the end that IA government
may be elected by the people to which they
will submit. or which, in of disturbance,
the United States can honorahly maintain.
Instead of adopting and acting upon
this advice, the requirements of the situa-
ton were neglected, the state drifted into
anarchy, the administration interfered
with troops to support its favorites-and
the result IS seen by ALL
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22

The latest notion in the leather line is
a patent waxed shoe peg.
Gloucester, Mass, has voted to be-
come a city, and the Advertiser brings out
its eagles and big type
-Waldoboro is a century old this year,
and they talk of celebration, with a
gathering of the scattered descendants of
the good old German stock.
In digging a cellar in Roekland, the
other day, the pick turned up a dead baby
Some folks are very careless with their
offspring.
Miss Lillian S. Edgarton is lecturing
in Kennebec on the subject 'Whither are
we drittingp" Well, Lille, if we are
drifting, why not make sail, trim the
yards, and see if we can't get steeraee
way. These drifts are dangerous.
The New York Commercial, which is in
clined to glorify Ben Butler. kindly remarks
that when he engineered the salary steal he was
suffering from ''fit of temporary restoration
OF Democracy" Press.
The people Of New Orleans would like
to see him incline to permanent restora-
ton of spoons.
The motto of the Good Templar girls of
Salem, N. j.. is: "The lips that touch wine
shall never touch mine.'
Ben. Jonson, who rhymed something
over two hundred years ago, had SINH
lar noticn. He wrote
"Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And l will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And T1l not look for wine"
But, for all that, Ben drank like a fish
when he and Shakspere met at the Mer-
maid tavern.
The Waterville Mail sees the coming
of a sign in the history of the republican
party The Mail, so long the staunch de-
fender of the faith, acknowledges that the
party lis burdened with illegitimate sins
Credit Mobilier, back pay, embassy
frauds, paper credits,-till the feather
need be but light one that breaks the
camel's back. With the best principles in
the world, no party can long outlive the
integrity of its leaders,"
T. B. Van Buren, the disgraced
Vienna commissioner, has written some
letters to the President and Secretary Fish,
in the latter of which the phrases are
neither soft nor polite. A sentence in his
letter to the President probably gives the
reason why he should have right to
steal He says-"Through two political
campaigns l have, at my own expense,
and without fee or reward of any kind,
given my best efforts to your success"
Why shouldn't the man that did that much
for President who increased his own
salary 100000 a term, himself have his
little pickings? 1t is shameful to thus
abuse patriot
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22

The march Of modern improvement
isn't goYg to spare even our venerable
old Bible. A new translation is demanded,
for the correction of alleged errors. inac-
curacies, &c, which are said to have
crept not only into the King James version,
but into the Greek text from which it was
made. The convocation of Canterbury,
England, in May, 1870, originated
movement for the revision of the English
Bible. which is under the supervision of
four companies of the ablest scholars of
the different denominations, two compan-
les being resident in England and two in
America. Ex-Presdent Woolsey of New
Haven is chairman of the American COM
mittee on the New Testament, and Rev.
Professor Green OF Princeton chairman of
that upon the Old Testament. The old
translation will be preserved so far pos
sible, the proposed changes relating only
to correction of the Greek text, errors,
inaccuracies, obsolete expressions, proper
names and arrangement. There will be
many omissions from the new version.
The Lords Prayer will lose its concluding
sentence: "For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, amen"
Also, the account of the woman taken in
adultery which is not a part Of the orig
inal text of Johns gospel; and the verse
IN the fifth chapter of John, beginning:
"For an angel went down into the water"
&c. Despite the numerous changes, by
revision and omission, made and to be
made, there are critics who believe the
revision not carried to sufficient extent
to ensure absolute authenticity.
But those who have been accustomed
to read and treasure up the words of the
Bible of the good old days, will not find
much delight in the new edition. And it
may well be doubted whether the scholars
of modern times can exceed in accuracy
and beauty the translation made by the
forty-seven learned men appointed by
King James, and which caused learned
admirer of their labors to exclaim that
'the translators of the English Bible were
no less inspired than the writer's"
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22
The Vienna Scandal.

The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Post Of May 18th. says
Secretary Fish stated yesterday that he
had positive proof that Commissioner Van
Ruren, who has Just been removed was
guilty of about all the improper acts
charged against him. He claims to have
indubitable proof that Van Buren has
made propositions to various parties guar
anteeing that the latter should have promi-
nent places in the Exposition on condition
that he should receive valuable consider
alton therefor. These advances were
made in the direction of certain patent
interests from which Secretary Fish saws
Van Buren, desired to realize largely SO
lar as the restaurant privileges were con-
cerned, the State Department claims that
this intrigue was conducted in the most
aisgraceful manner. The names of several
parties in this country have already been
obtained who are prepared to swear that
Van Buren, proposed to sell them valuable
stands at rates which would make the
private fortunes of those receiving the
consideration. The State Department ex-
poets shortly to receive report of the
investigation from Vienna, when the
country will be put in possession OF facts
which are even more startling than any
thing that has yet been limited at in this
connection.
The women in the Sandwich Islands live, for
n.t nj SlI
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22

We design to take no part in the ''war
of the succession" which is just now rag
ing in the radical papers of the state con-
cerning the nominee for Governor Our
position will continue to be that of armed
neutrality. But if we were to be permitted
a single observation it would be that
Hon. Nelson Dingley combines qualities
which would do honor to the state as its
chief magistrate. He has high character,
strong and clear judgment, and popularity
combined with a sense of the dignity due
to the high position. The state cannot do
better in the selection of Governor, I'M
less it may be to elect the nominee of
the Democratic convention.
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22
The Warren Murder
Correspondence of the journal.
tVAppt,N Nov

WARREN. May 20.
This usually quiet town was startled on
Saturday morning the 18th inst, to learn
that terrible murder had been commit
ted sometime during the previous night.
The facts concerning the affair are about
as follows:
The victim, DR.. p r. Baker although
he formerly resided in this place. has been
here this this time only about six months
He soon obtained very good practice,
and was held in much esteem as phys-
clan. A few weeks ago DIR. Baker read
certain letters in public from woman
named Lucy Ann Mank, which contained
threats that she would shoot him. Although
he professed to be afraid Of this woman.
he still visited her. She lived with her
brother, about one mile from the village.
On Friday night Baker called on a patient,
and leaving there about nine o'clock was
not seen again until found dead shot
through the heart in the chamber of this
woman, at the house of Warren Mank.
When found on Saturday morning, he ap-
peared to have dressed in a hurry, as the
bed was much tumbled. his pants not but
toned, vest on wrong side out, inside coat
on, and stockings partly on, his overcoat,
boots and hat were lying on the floor
beside him.
The woman, Lucy Ann Mank, came to
one Of the neighbors that night between
ten and eleven O'Clock, with nothing on
but night clothes, and baretooted, saving
she had been shot The only other per
sons in the house besides Lucy Ann Mank.
We're two small children, who slept below
The neighbors went to the house and
found everything quiet; they Knocked at
the door and on the window, and were
answered. They then went home think
ing it only a family quarrel In the morn
ing thinking something might be wrong,
as the woman still persisted in saying
nothing except that she was shot, about
dozen persons entered the house and
going up stairs found the Doctor as above
stated. A coroner's jury (Gould, from
Camden, coroner) has been impaneled,
but have not yet finished (now Tuesday
morning). Spots of blood were found on
the night clothes Of the woman. She has
been arrested and taken to Rockland.
She has made no confession but says :
third person was connected with the affair.
She also says she retired that night about
eight O'Clock, and admitted the Doctor
between nine and ten, NJ. r. NJ
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22

A six year old was asked by his teacher
to write composition on the subject of
water. and the following is the produc-
ton: "Water is good to drink, is good
to swim in, and to skate on when frozen
When | was a little baby, the nurse used
to bathe me every morning in water. |
have been told that the Injuns don't wash
themselves but once in ten years. | wish
I was an Injun."
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22

Two crippled soldiers, one from the
Confederate and the other from the Fed
eral army, have formed partnership for
running a hand-organ in New York
These crippled soldiers, says the Mobile
Register, probably could not define the
word craftsmanship, but they show a
spirit Of reconciliation and willingness
to make the best of the present, which
many professed statesmen might study
and emulate to their own credit and the
infinite advantage of the country
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22
4 Sensation in State Street.

nu} ~ Shy lOck had been bitten to the
amount Of about 100000, by loans or
forged certificates of stock. A broker
named Coe, who had the confidence ot
Aasne>s men. and was held to be a SHARP
and Shrewd operator, was the victimizer
H> manner OF operating is thus de-
~rrihed-
l. appears that Warren Il Co., the ship
orS in State street, held some of Goes
co.lateral Ter $4,000 advanced him. This
collateral was originally two shares OF
.iie Eastern Railroad stock issued to War
rem Conner. Il was altered by inserting
The character '&" and erasing the final
-'mer" in CoNer's name and then ''raised''
represent POO shares. On this Warren
x Co. made advances to their great loss,
robably. a writ of attachment on an
SIS non oi tort Is ont against Coe and is in
'he hands OF The sheriff awaiting service
ln this ease Coc will be obliged to give
haii or 80 Ia Jail.
Nlmllat tactics were employed by Coe
+v nNelgle John Ferris. A share OF the
~.nnr railroad stock, originally issued by
'Ae road 10 John Ferri or Ferry. was
changed 10 Ferris and ''raised' to repre-
~tnt luo shares. An action OF contract
ha- also been brought against Coe in this
r-~c and writ awaits service
tNc handrrl and seventv-tive shares of
'hc Alioucz Mining Company, worth now
about ~, have also been attached by some
ral1N, "a victim. and the All0uez Company
haVr attached Goes horses carriages and
Innturr Ia the extent of Sl5 900, to cover
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The Republican journal., 1873-05-22

Hon w. G. Crosby last winter visited
Florida. and while absent he wrote home
- series of ofinteresting letters to the Belfast
Journal. Referring to one Of the Florida
towns est. Augustine, we believe,) he
wrote-''The buildings are principally of
coqulna, conglomorate or concretion of
minute sea shells. the principal locality of
which is on the island. 1t is quarried in
blocks of about the same dimensions as
the stones used in the construction of
granite buildings with u.s." A sample Of
rock very much like that spoken of as
''coquina," was found among the debris
of the old fort, on the Lewis farm, at
Pemaquid, three years ago at the time OF
the visit of the Historical Society to that
spot. brunswick Telegraph.
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22

TIE LOBSTER BUSINESS. We are in
formed that 4, $50 cans of Holsters were
put up in j. w. Jones' factory at Castine
on Saturday, which is said to be the largest
DAYS work ever done in any factory in
town. The schooner Mountain Fawn,
Capt. Decker, arrived at Castine on Wed
uesday, with 35, l20 lbs. of Holsters, the
largest single lot ever brought into the
place. Whig.
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22

Horace NJ. Jordan Esq. this week re-
tires from the editorial chair of the Port
land Star Mr. Jordan is a ready and
pleasant writer. We trust that his pen
may continue to be employed upon some
Maine paper.
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22

"Why should we celebrate Washngton's
birthday more than mine?" asked a teacher
" Because he never told liev shouted little
boy.
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22
The Drummond Mine Calamity.

WEsrvILLE, N S.. May 16. Mr. Drum
mond the President, and Mr. Burdoch,
the Vice President of the Drummond
Colliery. arrived last night. They are
deeply affected at the awful disaster The
fire is now considered thoroughly under
control. Very little smoke or flame issues
from the slopes, and it is expected to-day
that all the pits will be dampened, and
that sufficient quantity OF carbonic acid
gas will be in the mine to put out the fire.
The war on lager beer is progressing vigor-
ously in Boston,
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22
he GalIows.
New YORK, MAY 1t

New YORK, May l6.
Nixon the murderer of Charles H.
Pteitfer paid the penalty oi his crime on
gibbet this morning. The doomed man
after taking a farewell Of his family and
friends last evening, ate hearty supper
and remarked to his keeper, This is my
last supper on earth, and | have done
what never did before. taken two cups
OF coffee He then prayed with Father
Duranquet, the prison chaplain, and fell
asleep attwelve O'Clock He was awakened
at five o'clock, A. NJ, and having dressed
attended mass read by Duranquet, re-
ccived the sacrament Of the Catholic
church. The only words he spoke after
were, My Saviour was crucfed-this is
nothing"
The crowds inside the prison yard and
outside We're very large. At 9O2 O'Clock
he left the cell and walked firmly to the
scatfold, Fathers Duranquet and Mckenua
walking on each side. Nixon carried a
large cructiN in his hands which he re-
peatedlv kissed terventv on the way Ar
riying at the scatf'ola he knelt between
the clergymen and repeated the Lords
prayer and several credos. The prayers
over, the rope was eat and the body was
launched up several feet.
After hanging some minutes a tremor
of the limbs and heaving of the chest
We're perceptble.- At 9.lG o'clock, the
physicians pronounced life extinct, and at
$50 o'clock, the body was cut down,
when the medical men ascertained that
the neck was not broken and that death
had resulted from strangulation.
Nixon made his will yesterday, be-
queathing his property to his wife and
daughter
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.
Charles Mortimer who was hanged in
Sacramento to-day, for the murder of
Mary Gibson was either insane or simu-
lated insanity with singular persistency.
He did not, or pretended not to, recognize
his brother, the minister who attended
him, his counsel, nor any other person.
He seemed not to comprehend his position
His countenance exhibited no emotion and
he did not utter a word Mortimer had
the reputation OF being one of the worst
criminals in California.
MOUNT CARROLL. ILL, May 16.
Joseph O'Neal was hanged few min
utes aftel eleven o'clock this morning in
the Jail yard, for the murder of Hiram
Rexford, on the 22d of September last
He made written confession of his crime,
and said that whiskey and q woman
caused it, He declares that his brother
Thomas is innocent OF participation in the
murder. Thomas was tried as an accom-
plice and sentenced to the penitentary for
lite The execution was witnessed by
about one hundred persons There was
an immense crowd outside the walls
The Republican journal., 1873-05-22

The article commenting on Beecher
on Revivals will appear next week.
The Spaniards continue to hammer
away at each other in Old Spain, in the
progress of the revolution. The Carlists
are getting the advantage.
"A bill which has just passed the New
York Legislature establishes in that state
the principle of local option in respect to
the sale of liquors. Such cities and towns
as vote to have liquors sold in their bord-
ers, can have them; and those that do not
so vote have the benefit of prohibitory
law in their limits.
Since the above was in type, Gov. Dix
has vetoed the bill
A NICE FATHER IN LAW. The Gazette
gives the particulars of what it Justly calls
a disgraceful affair, which recently oc-
cured in Ripley. 1t seems that a lad Of
fourteen years named Charles Davis, did
not perform so much labor as his father
in-law. Turner Lord, thought he ought to.
and the latter after knocking him down
several times, took him to the barn,
stripped him naked. and beat him in
most brutal manner. The neighbors took
the matter up, and brought the poor boy
to Dexter, and the Gazette says his back
and legs were covered with ridges, almost
every blow he received cutting through
the skin. His head and face were also
badly beaten, and one of his ears consid-
erably torn. Lord was arrested and on
Tuesday arraigned at Cambridge before
Justice Bailey, who fined him $40 and
costs.