The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-04
A WlsooSslx FAn,i :ss ". DOW Po1soNs


worth, III Pierce County, Wisconsin, on
information filed by tho County at or.
ney, Gnstead of indictments by grand
Jury. as in other States.) which charges
her with poisoning to death four persons,
To wit her youngest sou, Don Orrin
Lamb, aged thirteen years; her cnly
daugh.or, Sarah A. Lamb, aged ten
years; blis. Irene Il. Ottman, a neighbor
aud personal friend; and Mr.. Royal Gar.
land, anothe, neighbor and friend Of
hers. These perio ons died in the order
named above, at the following dates:
May 24th, June 2lst, Aua .st Sd md An
gust 18th Of last year--all in Trimbello
township, in the County named, where
Mrs. Lamb was known for ten years as
the wife OF o prosperous farmer. She
WAS oil this time Jealous p. Jfessor OF
religion, and an ever ready nurse for the
SICK, skiIlfnl in the preparation of simple
ienedles, and earnest in her prayers for
the salvnticn OF the dying-even of those
who died of the poison she gave them,
Stry ohnine, in fatal quantities, YVES found
in the stomachs of her victims.
The gossips of Trimbeile, though they
used to sound Tho praises of 'good Mrs.
Lamb, now assert that if the woman
was insane, her INSANITY was nothing
olso but q cunning and devilish passion
for murder. They say that she poisoned
DIR. Fuller and her own husband, who
| died IL tho fall Of 1871, and the first M-s.
Lamb anu young woman to whom Mr.,
Lamb was attentive after the death of
| his frat vile, which lr-,t two died in Yer
! mont about nineteen years ago. The co.
lncidcnccs which the gossips rely upon,
are that these persons, as woll as those
who were undoub' edly poisoned by her,
werc nursed and doctured by NI.s. Lamb
and died in her arms.
| In looS, then Mrs. Lamb, she removed
with her husband to Sibley County,
Minnesota, where they .ived until the
lnd'an outbreak Of 1862. At that time,
Mr.. Lamb W away f,om home, and
Mrs. Limb fed with her three children.
all on foot, to St. Paul. forty miles away,
carrying her SICK baby on pillow on
one arm, and with the free hand steady
ing tho steps Of her little boy. Her de.
votioa TO her children "; the theme of
many Lind"to.. : paragraph in the news
pape-s OF The day. Yet il w~ the babv
girl sh.. carried on he. urn, and the little
boy whom Sue half lei and half carried
through thai long flight from the red
sa1ages. that she poisoned to death last
year.
San trancisco Ia urging war on the
HaaShen Chiuee. The board Of super
visofs are about to pass an Act provitlin q
that when Chinanan is sent to jail his
cherished piG-ta:l sha" be cut OF, an in .
suit which Chinannn regards in the
same light es on American would the
pc .ilnE or his nose, and also imposing a
Tax O; SO yer QUARTER on Chinese lam
drymen, and furbiddiug tue expectation
Tor burial Of tho remains of deceased
Cinnamon. The Chinese Immigration
agents Mt San francisco have teleL .uphcd
dlscouraging further shipments OF Celes.
tials to that port.
Congress passed an Act il 1868, tc the
effect that in the case of the death or IL
ability of the Chief Justice to discharge
his d1.i !, the Associate Justice holdinc
the commission of the next date sbai]
perform all the duties OF the Chief JUS
| tice un.-l another is appointed. Under
this Act Associate Justice Clifford will
act as Ct:ef Justice until the success ,r
OF the late Ci ef Justice Cha ia np-
pointed.
ADVANTAGE oP TRAVEL Mark Twain
we'll says that travel is fatal TO preiu.
dice. bigotry and narrow -mindedncss !;
and mnny OF our people need it sorsly
on this account" This is true of etery
locality. Fanaticism and prejudice
spring from mindscontracted By circun,.
s:riheu knowledge OF neu and the world
Generally when people trayel and mix
and compare opinions with Others, their
Ideas be come enlarged and liberalized.
Re- uloN AMONG TIL ISpr.Ss a
Washington despatct, gives letter from
Indian Commissioner Smith to Indian
Agen. Alon:eith, at Lapwai, Idaho, III.
structing nlm '.at prohibiting Roman
Catholics or any other denomination
from Lodins services among the indians
(hithongii Y ontaith claims his agency rs
a Presbyterian cne) is wrong, nil re.
lis'oDi boing entitled to equality.
\ Bap.isa paper in Ohio was sent fo.
ninc yeas.' tc II subscriber who never paid
cont for it. The otLcr day, the news
paper was rotnrned 70 the patient aud
long suffering publisher with tie affect
luG pencil note on its margin: "Gone to
bo.tor world Tho publisher is very
pious n.ap. Gur it is reported that his
sa;ih is terribly shaken in regard to the
accuracy OF the information.
Cacralt the cx hangman, has been of.
tered round sum by the Boston Lee
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