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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-01
TEE ALLEGED M,sWEEGAH HOMICIDE.

Coroner Herrman's Investiga tiOn-1ns
jured I'm Some Manner Unknown.
Yesterday afternoon the fatal tenement house
row at No. 4S Scanned street, on the oath OF
February last, in which Bridget McSweegan, the
victim, received only q scalp wound, was the sub
ject OF investigation before Coroner Herman, at
the City Hail. The prisoner, Oneeyed, Vicious.
looking woman, was present, and looked as though
the liquid poison in which she had SO long INDUCED
to excess was well out OF her system. Once or
twice during the examination Of witnesses the
prisoner exhibited her malgnity by calling Mrs.
Howard liar, and 1t was found necessary to place
an oflcer beside her to keep her quiet. Below viii
be found the main points in the testimony elected
before the Coroner and the jury.
Mary Howard, of 4S Scanned street. dopOsod
that she heard Mary McNamee and Bridget Nc
Sweegan having some words in their room on the
and see what was the matter, but the witness did
not 60 down; witness says both the women were
intoxicated, and on the night in question the pris.
with the witness, but paid her nothing; deceased
worked sometimes; she did not live with her hus-
band. During the time the witness was giving her
testimony the prisoner became excited and gave
Mrs. Howard the lie, and repeated the remark.
the Witness that sss %N
NEE, boy nine years old, told him that the night
previous his mother and deceased had quarrel
and struck each other with wooden hoops.
John McNamee, the little son of the prisoner, was
called to the stand, and deposed that deceased
called his mother We and him o bastard; his
mother picked up hoop and struck Mrs. McSwee-
gan in the lace with it, the prisoner did not strike
deceased with bottle.
Oficer Moran, Of the Thirteenth precinct, testi-
fed that he found deceased lying In the hallway Of
house As Scanned street. In state OF insensi-
bilty on the morning Of the oath OF February, and
took her to the station house; after partially re-
viving deceased said that prisoner had struck her
ON the head with bottle; deceased was intOxi-
Gated at the time she was found, and had cut on
the side of the head
On admission to the hospital deceased told the
surgeon that man mad struck her, but she did not
give his name.
DR.. Cushman testified that deceased died nom
erysipelas caused by the wound on the head.
Coroner Herman submitted the case to the Jury
who rendered the following
VERDICT
THAT Bridget McSweegan came TO her death from
erysipeas caused by wound on the head; said
wound being received IN some manner to us un-
known, Mt as Scanned street, on about the 24th
day OF February, 1873"
Coroner Herman. believing that further incar-
ceraton would prove beneficial to the confirmed
inebrate, McNamee, required her to give bail In
ST. 00O In default OF which she committed to the
T0mbs The prisoners husband said he would pro-
cure bail for her to-day
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-01
THE ARREST OF PAYMASTER's CLERK DO
CART.
New YORK, March 20, 1873.

New YORK, March 20, 1873.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-x
Having noticed In your paper OF this date, that
'sNaval Paymaster Bogartr has been arrested in
san Francisco, CAL, beg leave to state that Mr..
Bogart never was honored with commission In
the United States Navy as Paymaster, he was sim
ply Paymaster's clerk on the United states
Steamer Vermont and absconded with about $780,,
600 government funds intrusted to his care. By
publishing the foregoing, you will correct a false
statement aud much 0blige
A PAYMASTTR,
United states NavY.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-01

/ ~ YOKOHAMA, Feb. g. 1Sf3
The imperial mission to China has not vet left
Japan. AS told you in my last, Soyoshima, now
acting Prime Minister is to be at the head OF this
mission, with the rank OF Minister Plenpotenttary
and Envoy Extraordinary. General Legendre is to
60 as CHIEF adviser, with the rank Of Assistant
Envoy. The reasons for the delay Of the mission
are tw0fold. One Ia that the government do not
care about sending away the mission until the
advent OF the Peruvian Embassy which is daily ex-
pected and about which doubts will exist as to
whether that mission Is to come with peace or war
In Its hands. The other reason Is that
considerable opposition has developed itself
during the last month from some high
Japanese 0f1iclals, which has now attained such
strength as 60 endanger the departure OF the mis-
sion. Mr.. De Long has interested himself to some
extent IN Its success, and Is doing his best to
smooth the difficulties. But the fact that an
American Ia connected with the mission Is Of itself
SUFFICIENT to raise an opposition from those jap
anese who receive their inspirations from the rep
resentattves Of other nationalities.
RELATIONS TO PERU.
The Peruvian question is q source Of great un-
eastness to the Japanese. In spite OF the bold face
that they attempt to put upon their actions in the
Maria Luz ship case they feel convinced that they
went step further than international law war
ranted them. True, they were openly backed up
by the British Charge dAares, and secretly by the
American Charge. But 1t strikes me that the Eng
lishman merely used the Japanese as cats paw to
pull out OF the fire chestnuts which hot that
the English themselves dld not dare to touch them
In humanitarian view Of the case the action Of
the Japanese was undoubtedly oil praiseworthy;
but said action Is almost certain to undergo the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-01
J A p A N
The Proposed Imperial Mission to China and
What Is Hoped from the Diplomacy.

Peruvian Relations to the Government and Popu.
lar Fear Of Serious Conseq washing-
toy Cabinet observation-disclosures Toll
erstion-Prcjsct Of Repeal Of the Law
Of Exscation Of Horsignms-Plaa
ofPostal Treaties with tho Out
side Nations Twsnty-thrss
Lives Lost by Accident.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
The Pension Laws-Changes Made by
tina Last Congress.

An act of the last Congress, approved
March 3, 1873, to revise, consolidate and
amend the laws relating to pensions,
generally enlarges and liberalizes the
former acts, re-enacting nearly all for
mel provisions and extending privileges.
No items for granting pensions have
been reduced or struck out. Among
the new provisions in this respect are
the following: All persons who have
lost a leg above the knee and are so dis
abled thereby that they cannot use an
artificial limb, shall be rated in the Sec
ond class and receive $24 PEE month.
All persons having lost the hearing of
both ears, to receive $13 per month.
Section five provides that the rate of S18
per month may be proportionately di-
vided for any degree OF disability estab-
lished for which the second section
makes no provision. The old law pro-
vides for no rates between eight and
eighteen dollars. In the organization
Of the Pension Bureau important
changes have been made. The new law
provides for the appointment by the
President of a Deputy Commissioner of
Pensions, with a salary of s., 500 per
annum. Joseph Jockey has been APP
pointed to this office. The efficiency of
the bureau is increased by a provision
for the appointment of a duly qualified
surgeon as medical referee, with a sal
airy of 50, 800 per annum. who shall have
charge of examinations, and revision of
reports of examining surgeons, and such
other professional matters as may be re-
ferred to him by the commissioner. The
Secretary of the Interior has appointed,
as such medical referee, Dr.. L. B. Hood.
He is also authorized to appoint
such qualified surgeons, not exceeding
four, as may be required, who shall be
borne upon the rolls as clerks of the
fourth class, and to take the place of
clerks already in the service, with a sal
airy of 81, 800 each per nnum. These
have not yet been appointed. The new
law adds two years to the limitations
under which the pension claims may be
established. The fees for medical ex-
aminations and certificates have been
increased to 81, excepting in the
case of the Board of Examiners,
each member being entitled to receive
only 81.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01

Ha, ha, hal Why, Timothy, you've
caught the WrOng fish! It's my other
niece that's sailed down with half a mil
lion dollars! !"
"Your other niece ?" gasped Timothy,
catching at a chair for support. and
gradually sinking into it.
eyes, sir, my other niece. That little
witch of a Lizzy Florence is the golden
niece p ~
"Your seaoing-girls ?" family articu-
lated Timothy.
"Sewing-f asna-a -diddle!" responded
the old man, with an energetic express
sion. "She tried to sea- herself out of
the company of those who would want
nothing but her money, and I think she
has succeeded. Timothy, had you asked
me, or had you even asked Arabella con-
corning her fortune, you would have
learned the truth; but it seems that you
have been steering on the wrong course.
You are something like a mariner who,
In setting out upon his voyage, imagines
to himself a luminous beacon some
where ahead, and, without chart or COM
pass, steers recklessly for it. He finds
out too late that his supposed beacon is
nothing but a 'will-o'-the-wisp,' but,
having got fairly upon the sea, he must
weather it out the best way he can. You
have got the wife you wanted, and one
wnom you swore you loved for herself
alone, and L have no doubt that, with
proper training, she will be all that you
deserve. Arabella and Lizzy are both
my nieces, and though [ must admit
that, for her own benefit, Miss Florence
has practiced a little deception, yet your
wife has not. If yoW have been de-
ceived, it was by your W eupidity.
But don't be down-hearted for, if you
prove a faithful husband, you shall not
suffer materially from your error, though
the wealth at which you grasped has
most truly slipped through your fin
gers!'
With a trembling step and bowed
head, Timothy Barbour left the house.
cob, Lizzy = uttered Edward, as soon
as his brother had gone, sit was not
right to deceive me thus p
"And will you love me less now that
you find yourself deprived Of the pleas
ure of incessant toll in my behalf 2"
archly asked the fair girl, as she cast a
look of melting tenderness up into the
face OF her companion.
Edward caught the lovely being to his
arms, but his answer vas drowned in
the loud din of a long and hearty laugh
which at that moment burst forth from
the lips of the old captain.
One of the first acts of the gentle
Lizzy, after her marriage with Edward,
was to bestow upon Arabella a munif-
cent gift, meant, of course, as a delicate
token from the younger to the elder
brother. Timothy received its benefit
he knew from whence it came and he
lived to be a wiser and a better man.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
Pith and Point.

SWEET home-A beehive.
FIELD exercise-Plowing.
CLERICAL loans-Lent sermons
FLAT acknowledging on your back.
BAYoNETs are driven, but bullets are
lead.
A TIcKL1sH position-Standing upon
trifes
How to prevent fts-Buy ready-made
boots.
CAN a man be said to pay as he goes
if he sleeps on tick ?"
WHEN is fire like a bad husband ?
When it goes out at night.
PUNCH has found man 700 lazy to la
Dor under an impression.
The man who is equal to himself is
generally a match for others.
THERE are no female dates, although
there are plenty of mandates.
How do you define black as your hat?
Darkness that may be felt"
WHY is an overworked horse like an
umbrella? Because it is used up.
A PERSON who tells you of the faults
of others intends to tell others of your
faults.
"WHAT's the use," asked an idle fell
low, "of a man working himself to
death to get a living?"
A NOD fellow, wasting his midnight
toll in literary efforts, says that 1t is
useless for a mar to try to write when
he gets no wink all night.
UNPROTECTED males avoid a certain
village in Maine, which contains fifty
five widows. What would the late Tony
Weller have thought of this?
WHY don't you get down, and lead
the horse? That is the way to keep
warm" said a gentleman to a boy one
cold day. "No," replied the American
youth, sit is a b-b-borrowed horse, and
I'll ride him if 1 freeze"
"VEGETABnE pills !" exclaimed an old
lady. "Don't talk to me of such stuff.
The best vegetable pill ever made is an
apple dumping for destroying a gnaw-
ing in the stomach there is nothing like
it it always can be relied on"
A DENTIST presented a bill for the
tenth time to a rich skinflint. cit
strikes me-" said the latter, "that this
is a very round bill" YES" replied
the dentist, Give sent it round often
enough to make it appear SO, and l have
called now to get it squared"
SOME persons are discussing the prob
able nationality of a very tall and very
slim foreign lady who'puts on unusual
airs. 81 think she is q Swede," said
one. GA Russian, L Think ven
tured another. 81 think" said a wag,
"she looks more like a Pole"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
Honor Thy Mother.

1t was a cold, dark night in winter.
The wind blew, and the snow was whirled
furiously about, seeking to hide itself
beneath cloaks and hoods, and in the
very hair of those who were out. A dis
tinguished lecturer was to speak, and,
Notwithstanding the storm, the villagers
very generally ventured forth to hear
him.
William Amnesty, buttoned up to his
chin in his thick o~vercoat, accompanied
his mother. 1t was difficult to walk
through the fallen snow against the
piercing wind, and William said to his
mother
Couldn't you walk easier if you took
my arm?"
"Perhaps / could," his mother replied
as she put her arm through his and
drew up as closely as possible to him.
Together they breasted the storm, the
mother and the boy who had once been
carried in her arms, but who had now
grown up so tall that she could lean on
his. They had not walked very far when
he said
81 am very proud, tonight, mother. .
"Proud that you can take care of
me 2" she said to him with q heart gush-
ing with tenderness.
"This is the first time you have leaned
Rupon me-" said the happy boy.
There will be few hours in that child's
life of more exalted pleasure than he
enjoyed that evening if he should live to
old age, and should, in his manhood,
lovingly provide for her who in his help
less infancy watched over him.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
Liability of Express Carriers.

A case was recently decided in the
United States Supreme Court, which is
Of interest both to express companies
and to the public. At the time of the
nitro-glyeerine explosion in the office of
Wells, Fargo & Co., at San Francisco, a
few years since, among other articles
damaged was a lot of goods, the proper
ty of one Barret. Suit was brought by
Mr.. Barrett against the express company
for the recovery of damages sustained
by him, and the case was carried finally
to the Supreme Court of the United
States, where a decision in favor of the
defendants was found. The grounds
upon which the opinion was based are
as follows: The court says that if ex-
press carriers are c~hargeable, with no
tice of the contents of the packages car
ried by them, they must have the right
to refuse to receive parcels unless their
contents are known. 1t would be un-
reasonable to require them, in that case,
to accept as conclusive in every instance
the information given by the owner.
They must be at liberty, whenever In
doubt, to exact the right of inspection
of the contents as a condition of the car
riage. But the doctrine which would
lead to such a course of business would
cause great inconvenience and seldom
accomplish any good. The carrier is
not chargeable with notice of the con.
tents of packages, and should not be
held liable for an act done without his
fault.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
MATRIMONIAL SPECULATIONS.

"Ned, you're a fool. But there is
q chance yet for redemption"
"TheR Tn afraid / am in the same
fix as those u~nfortunates spoken of in
the catechism past redemption"
This conversation was between two
brothers, Mesers. Timothy and Edward
Barbour, and was carried on In the
store of the former early one morning,
before customers began to flock in.
Timothy was a dry-goods merchant, just
commencing business on a doubtful
capital; while Edward, the younger
brother, was still a clerk, with a fair
salary, in a heavy jobbing house up
town" The circumstance that had
given rise to their %colloquy was simply
this Mr.. Aaron Simpson, a retired
sea captain, had received a visit from
his niece, a young, fair, and very
wealthy heiress, whose father had died
q year previously, and left her the whole
of his immense fortune, There was also
stopping with Capt. Simpson a young
girl, who was engaged in sewing for the
family, but who, though her occupation
seemed so humble, was possessed of all
those graces that adorn the true woman.
Now the father of the young gentlemen,
when living, had been an intimatefriend
of Capt. Simpson, and consequently
both Timothy and Edward were fire.
quent and welcome visitors at the man
sion of the old sea captain. Timothy
had seen the magnificent Arabella For
bush, Capt. Simpsons niece, and he be
Iieved himself t be deeply in love witt
her; while Edward, the younger and less
presuming brother, did not hesitate te
ayow that he loved the fair Lizzy Flor
ence, who only made shirts and pillow
"You may think me a fool" said Ed
ward, in reply to his brothers harsh re
mark, "but will you tell me wherein !?
"Wherean!" uttered Timothy, brand
ishing a yard stick by way of emphasis
1W6y, did you not tell me that yol
thought of proposing to that servant 0
ii told you, Tim, that I would maxi
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
The English Coal Famine.

Since the panic of 1866 railroad prop
erty has not been exposed to so heavy
and so sudden a decline in price as since
the beginning of the present year, says
the London Saturday Re0sew. The
fall is out of proportion to the reduction
in the intrinsic value of railwry stocks,
and those who have not been obliged to
sell viii probably 0 the greater
part of their nominal loss /; but scarcely
any department. of indu stry has been SO
seriously affected by the high price of
coal and by the general rise of wages.
On some railways the additional cost OF
fuel for locomotive power has absorbed
the whole of the dividend, and In almost
every instance it has either reduced
the dividend or rendered it stationary.
Notwithstanding a large increase OF
traffic.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01
ssIF."

II, sitting with this little worn-out shoe
And scarlet stocking on my knee,
L knew the little feet had patted through
The pearl-set gates that lie twixt heaven and me,
L could be reconciled, and happy too,
and look with glad eyes towards the Jasper Sea-
II, IN the morning, when the song of birds
Reminds me of a music far more sweet.
L listen to his pretty, broken words.
And for the music of his dimpled feet,
I could be almost happy, though 1 heard
No answer, seeing but his vacant sent.
I could be glad if, when the day is done.
And all its cares and heart-ache laid away.
1 could look westward to the hidden sun.
And with a heart full of sweet yearnine say.
"To-night I'm nearer to my little one
By just the travel of one earthly day..
If I could know those little feet were shod
With sandals wrought of light in better lands,
And that the footprints of a tender God
Ran side by side with his in the golden sands,
I could bow cheerfully and kiss the rod,
Since Benny was in wiser, safer hands.
If he were dead, I would not sit to-day
And stain with tears the wee sock Oh my knee:
1 would not kiss the shoe and say,
"Bring back again my boy to me N
l would be patient, knowing twas Gods way.
But o.! to know the feet once pure and white,
The haunts of vice have boldly ventured in
The hands that should have battled for the right,
Have been wrung crimson in the clasp of sinl
And should he knock at Heavens gate tonight,
To fear my boy could hardly enter in.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-01

Az, build her long and narrow and deep;
She shall cut the sea with a cimeter's sweep,
Whatever betides and whoever may weep!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-12-20

MORNING AFTER sTOFM.

cannot tell where the sun went down
Nor tell where the sun will rise,
Such terrible fears my senses drown,
And such blackness fills the skies;
o sailor man look through the fearful frown,
And say whel the morning lies.
The waves they beat our boat about,
As they madly fall and rise,
And the landsman cannot hear our shout
For the sea.wind's cruel Grief;
Speak ont, good sailor.man, speak outi
And say where the morning lies. =
My hopes that beat, like our boat, about,
ere all in the waves as they rise;
My faith is broken to fear and doubt, aaz -
And my heart within me dies;
Speak out, sweet saiorman speak out!
And cay where the morning liesi
And The sailor.man stroked my sea wet hair
As he pointed mp to the skies,
And with all his voice intoned to prayer,
And with all his soul in his eyes,
He said: Look there 1t is only there M
That the light o. th' morning lies"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-23

John Stuart Mil, the British philoso.
pber and statesman Is dead.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-23

SOWING DIFFERENT CEREALS TOGETHER.
OF late years the attention of several OK
permental English agricu,turists Gas well
as some Canadan) has been turned tow
ards the possibility Of Increasing the yield
per acre of various cereals when sown to-
gether in the same field. There seems little
doubt that much larger yield can be thus
obtained. Instances are quoted where peas,
oats, barley and wheat, all sown together,
have produced very large yield. This
plan has been especially successful where
various sorts of wheat alope have been
sown together, Or, as we should term it, IA
mixed sample of seed. One man mentions
Il yield of upwards of seventy bushels of
this mixed seed (wheaU per acre, and this
crop was composed of four different sorts of
wheat A most intelligent farmer, in Pick
ering, lately told me he had succeeded in
raj sing upwards of sixty bushels an acre
of mixed wheat and barley. Another farm
er, from Lower Canada, states eighty bush
els of mixed barley, oats and peas, and al
so stated that in his section ii is quite u
common thing 10 mix seed. 4 correspond
ent in England tells me that farmers in his
local. ty find mixing various sorts of wheat
often very successful, and lately il has been
much practiced.-C Canadian Farmer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-23

THE LARGEST FARM IN ENGLAND con-
sists of three thousand acres, and belongs
TO IL man with the Yankee name of Samuel
Jones. In its cultivation he follows the
-four course" system; the whole extent OF
the farm being divided into four great crops:
$50 acres TO wheat, 30 to barley and oats,
$50 TO seeds, beans, peas, etc, and $50 to
roots. His live stock is valued AS follow s:
sheep, $4,000; horses, $4,000; bullocks,
$4,000; pigs, $500. The oil-cake and core
purchased annually amount 10 $4,000, anl
artificial fertilizers about 5000. The entire
cost of manure, in various forms, used an
nually, is about $4,000 Sheep are claimed
as the most profitable stock he keeps, and
from them are realized about $40, 900 year.