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The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-08-13
MARrIUR yINToN COUNTY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 49,
from former experience in these

rom former experience in these
neteors, ao alaad ad' pwsaa 4
One time the ballon got up
70 the rear of the center Of the
vortex between the upper and
The lower cloud that it fell into
the raps Of the sun. This pro-
duced one of the rarest specta-
ples Of rainbow light in the
form of a perhelion, or arueola,
as it Is technically termed, that
my eyes ever rested on, It
threw upon this black central
clOpd-matter a beautiful pris-
matte arch of colored light,
''ff s4-blstlDi.NfN IALit- ti
not circular as a rainbow, but
in the form ola twisted ellipse,
caused, no doubt, by the differ
snee of density Of the watery
particles acting as the screen.
I gazed upon it with admira-
ton and amazemelt, ALL this
time the celestial fireworks
continued in full blast, banging
and booming like great guns,
and the Kissing of the electrical
streams Of fire was truly ap.
palllng. 1t seemed to me like
the crack of doom; and while
it made my hair bristle and my
heart beat qqiok time, 1t seemed
still to say, "Stand from un-
DER" because the thunderbolts
were all hurled downward. So
far as my reason could direct,
I felt il safer to look at it from
above than from below; be-
sides, the country below was
mainly forest and river, as seen
from an occasional glimpse
an open chasm of the
lower cloud.
Once the balloon was totally
involved in a mass of orange
colored flame. This was evi-
IDENTIFY "sheet-lightning" play
ing between the upper and the
lower cloud. 1 was for a mo-
ment paralyzed, not by an
electric shock, but by a shuddey
of fright, as it seemed for a mo-
ment that my air-bubhle was a
blaze. In an instant more ]
felt easier in mind seeing that
the fire had not harmed the
balloon. The thought now oc-
Cured, am I not venturing too
far upon my philosophy Of
safety in a thunder-cloud ? Be-
sides, my ballast was pretty
we'll exhaused, and 1 had been
in a storm for more than
an hour, SO that / must be many
miles from the place of depar-
ture. y
The beautiful grotto Of fire
would appear and disappear as
the balloon happened to fall in
and out of the sunbeams blaz.
ing in between the upper and
the lower cloud. The balloon
refracting the rays of light pas
sing through it caused the pris-
matte arch. The rain was dis.
charged from the lower cloud
and but seldom a few heavy
drops would fall on to the bal
loon from the upper stratum
From the rushing noise Of wa
ter, it was evident that the rair
was descending TO the earth il
torrents, and this with thu
heavy and constant discharges
Of thunderbolts and the remark,
able beauty of the aureola illu
minating the interior of The
storm-cloud, gave it more tht
character of a scene Of enchant
ment than one Of reality. There
was a fearful fascination in The
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-08-13

.n Con 'enies q Christian moth
ing, but With q design To give
him something better.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-08-13
HackLlpe,
M CART HU 4 HACK LINE.

CHARLES w. BARNETT, Proprietor
'XXTILL run regularly TO M Arthur Station
wv 10 meet al trains,
Hack leaves Macarthur Post 0filce ut 10
o'clock, A. NJ, tomeet Fast Line West; at II
NJ. 10 meet the Cincinnati Express going east;
at2 o'clock p. NJ, 10 meet the St. Louis Express
going west, at 8 r. NJ for Fast Line east.
WIN meet the Parkersburg, Marietta and
Zaleski Accommodation on application In per-
son or by letter. III.
Orders left at the Post ofice, Macarthur, OF
Dundas, promptly attended to,
une 4-1673. CHARLES W. BARNETT.
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on terra frma.

Having now sailed within
the folds Of his electrical meteor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21
HFARD FROM AGAIN.

Gen. G. NJ Dodge, formerly member OF Con-
gress from Iowa and Chief Engineer OF the
Union Pacific Railroad, was, as our readers
will remember, somewhat inquired after during
the last days Of the late Congress by the
Credit Mobilier Investigating Committee, OF
which the Hon. Mr. Wilson was Chairman.
Gen. Dodge knew, or was believed to know,
things that the Committee wanted to know.
Especially about the expenditure of large sums
of money in the lobby of Congress. A Deputy
sereeant-at-Arms of the House was sent to
Texas. where he is at present building rail-
road to summon him to appear before tne
Committee. Having got wind OF 1t IN some
way, Gen. Dodge started from Texas, and IL
was announced by the veracious chron-
iclers Of small beer in the State,
and thence telegraphed to the coun-
try. that he had started for Washington TO
volunteer his testimony. The TRIBUNE tried
to keep track of him, and subsequently
described his route TO Washington with great
minuteness. Its special interest consisted In
the fact that it did not touch Washington, but
ran to Council Bluffs Iowa. For several weeks
it was announced periodically by telegraph
that Gen. Dodge was on his way to Washing
ton. The Council Bluffs papers stated, when
he left there, that he had started for Wash
ington. SO the Committee kept waiting for
him, and the Deputy Sergeant at-Arms kept
following him round till the time of adjourn
ment But there was never any Dodge. We
have never been able to understand why
and how the Texas newspapers, and the
Iowa newspapers, and the Associated
Press agents about the country should
have fibbed it so about Dodge. And now
comes fb that's funniest of all. THE
Teras Iron Age, published at Marshall, says
in its issue of Wednesday, March 8: "Gen.
&c. NJ. Dodge arrived in town from Wash
"ington last Monday night" This business is
attaining the character of continued, persist
ent, architectural lying. The fact is Gen.
Dodge, though wanted in Washington, and so
often reported as on his way, did not go there
at ALL He has great stores of information
about the disbursement of the lobby funds OF
the Union Pacific Road, and as it is probable
the next Congress will devote itself pretty
much to Investigations, of which this business
will be one, it will be good plan to keep
advised as to Gen. DOdge's whereabouts. so
that he shall not dodge the next Congress,
and snap his fingers in its face as he did with
the last.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

the French who have adopted the instantane-
GUS guillotne. and the Spaniards who have in
vented the painless garrote; we shudderslightly
at the thought of their executions, and remark
rlpon tho sanguinary tendencies of the Latin
races. We forget that these people have applied
scientific principles to the methods of judicial
killing, while we are running on In the old
brutal rut of the middle ages.
Our criminals are, to speak plainly, tortured
TO death. 1t is very rarely that the neck is
broken by the fall this only happens by acct
dent. 1t is superfluous to say that such is not
the intent of our modern judicial system. On
the contrary it would be grotesque, were it
not so terrible, to see the efforts which our
Sheriff's officers make to render the operation
IA little painful to the convict as it can
be made. We retain on our statute books
rude and cruel mode of taking life, and then
exhaust our ingenuity in ameliOrating its
rudeness and cruelty in practice. Since this
horrible fashion was invented, the theory of
punishment and repression has entirely
changed. Hanging was chosen on account
of its slow and painful horror, to strike
terror into the hearts of the ignorant
peasantry who witnessed it. Fer that reason
it was made as public as possible. The crimi-
nal was hanged on high hill or a wide plain,
where every one might see his struggles, and
his bones were left to blacken in the wind
and weather, constant threat and warn
ing. The world has outgrown that man
ner of motive. We try to mako the
death of the criminal as sudden and painless
as possible. We execute the sentence in the
seclusion of jail-yards, from which the public
is rigidly shut out. Nobody laughs at the
agony of the culprit, which was considered an
excellent Jest in the middle ages Rabelais is
very humorous over it. But still we retain
iealously the substantial essence of the old
cruelty and the old brutality. We choke a
man to death for q quarter of an hour or
more, when every avowed purpose of the law
would be subserved by an instantaneous and
comparatively painless death.
The whole question lies here. We pretend
that criminals are hanged to prevent them
from committing more murders. and second.
to warn others from evil by their example.
Neither of these objects are forwarded by
the torture of tho condemned. He can be
as effectually put out of the way by
dose of chloroform as in any more
violent way, and a sudden and mysterious
death, in strict privacy, would impress much
more powerfully the imagination of the
dangerous classes than that cOngenial brutal
ity of the gibbet which has been for ages the
contempt of the cunning and the triumphant
theater of the ostentatious criminal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

and had no suspicion that the SUITS "o'o ~
any way connected with IL" Good man
How could he suspect Like Mr. bfooAs
when he took the Credit Mobilier shares' nke
Mr. Colfax when he got the 80 per cent diVi-
dends, like Mr.. Harlan when DuranN sens
him $4,000 he pocketed the gift and asked
no questions Gen. Barlow did not say it was
bride; so why should Mr.. Smith think 1t
vast
Such confidence between man and man
touches the finest sentiments OF the human
bosom. "There are chords" as Mr.. Guppy used
to say-but no, we will not pursue the sub
ject. Only we should like to know-since the
Speaker was neither to render any legal ser
vices nor to use any influence in the Legisla-
ture-wbat Gen. Barlow paid him $1,000 for;
and we should also like to know what Mr..
Smith thinks Gen. Barlow paid it for.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21
THE AJIEGED ENGLISH FORG Err.

If the authorities have secured any proof
that the man mcdonnell, arrested yesterday
morning, was concerned in the late fOrgeres for
nearly half million of dollars on the Bank
of England, they have carefully concealed it
from the public. The narrative which we pre-
sent is full and clear enough on all other
points, but though derived from all the chief
persons concerned in the arrest including the
prisoner himself, there is no intimation that
any proof of his guilt was secured by the
search of his person. We shall probably have
to wait patiently the arrival of the London
officer Welby, with the evidence pointing to
Macdonnells alleged guilt. The search OF the
arrested man does not appear to have resulted
in the seizure of much of the property which
he was suspected Of having obtained by
forged bonds. On the contrary, only about
$4,000 was secured in gold and an equal
amount in jewelry.
The singular proceeding which followed the
arrest of mcdonnell, involving as it does the
attachment of the police who took him into
custody, will attract greater attention here
than the capture itself. Most persons will in
considerably accept it as a reflection on the
detectives; but further explanations may make
clear that the unwarrantable detention of the
Deputy Sheriff sent to seize the property in
the name of the Supreme Court was the blum
der of others than the officers themselves. AT
any rate, an investigation must follow, and
while it is on it may as well review the con-
duct of the oficious Deputy Health Officer
at Quarantine who Obstructs officers in the per-
Torrance of their duties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21
THE MORALITY or STRING ULATTON

We publish to-day a letter from Professor
Burt G. Wilder setting forth briefly and
clearly the argument against the horrible and
brutal instrument of capital punishment which
is to be employed in this city this morning
and other pleasant mornings before the
Spring is over In regard to the JUS
tice and oxpediency of the claim of So
ciety to put murderers to death, our
position is well known. We think the death
penalty a relic of darker age and a more
savage code than we should recognize or imi-
tate. But we acknowledge the force of the
argument in its favor, and freely admit that
some of the wisest and most esti-
mable of social philosophers still believe
in it. But in regard to the subject
of Mr.. Wilders letter. it seems to us
that there is no room for difference of opinion.
Considered with entire independence of the
question of the merits of capital punishment,
the strangulation of criminals by hanging is
an affront to modern civilization. Yet custom
has given it such a sanction, that it seems to
most people a mere matter of course, that if
criminals are to be put TO death, it must be
by suspending them by the neck with rope
until they are dead. We are accustomed TO look
with a spirit of self-cOmplacent criticism upon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21
Nem'2lotk Daily Gribm,re.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
FRIDAY. MARCH 81, 1873.

Mr. Gladstone announced in Parliament that he had
resumed Office. 60 Troubles have arisen between
France and Spain.
The Senate Committee on Cities reported the New
York Charter with important amendments. 60
Berghs bill and the Bond and Mortgage Exemption bill
were defeated in the State Assembly. 60 Senator's
Conklng and SEIZURE had lively debate growing out Of
the Caldwell case. - The New-Jersey Senate passed
the General Railroad bill unanimously
One Of the Bank of England forgers was arrested on
European steamer. and Manchester thief in Brooklyn
- The Bulls Head Bank suspended payments owing
10 a heavy defalcaton. 60 The Rev. Henry Ward
Beecber lectured in New-Haven "The Opportunities
of Young Cergymen" - There is a rumored contest
in Erie circles over the freight contract. s. con-
federate OF Austin arrested for forging railroad
tineates The last preparations for hanging Foster
have been made 80 The Controller has submitted
report to the state Senate the markets. - Gold,
I15s, lisa. Thermometer, Go, $40, 35o.
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amnssmenis. etc. Chic Guenina.

ACADEMY OF MUsIc.-Itaiiau Opera; The Child
u the Regiment"
BooTHs THENrER.-"Daddy 0Dowd" Mr.. and
hss Dion Bouccaan. ard Shel Beru
GRAM OPERA HOUSE," Uncle SAM" Mrs. John
Woca, add John Brcsgham.
Nrw F,Fru AVENUE THEATER.-"Alixe" Miss
Clara Morris
NIsIo's GARDEN" Leo and Lotos."
OLYMPIC THEATER.-"H umpty Dumpty." George
& Pot
JrNIoN SQUARE THEATER.-"A Business Woman"
o. IA Harkins and Miss Mari Griswoh
WArLACK's THEATER. - David Garrick." L. A.
soshern sad Miss Katherine Rogers.
STENwAY HAII.-Readings. Charlotte Cushmau.
ToNY PAsToR's OPERA HoUsE.-Varieties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

Sensational marriages may be simple or complex.
A full dress ceremonial with rosy regiment Of
bridesmaids and the Wedding March on
the organ is, perhaps, beyond the means and
facilities of De Witt. Iowa; but school
madam there made her nuptials the conclu-
sion Of school exhibition, and another couple, not
to be 6utdone in novelty were joined on the stage
after temperance lecture These things are mat
ter of taste but We cannot help thinking the timid
shrinking blushing bride little the pleasantest TO
consider.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

Hopes of retrenchment, like those of re-
form, came to nothing in the last session of
Congress. The list of appropriations made
during that session shows grand and alarm
ing total of $19551O,S39. This is about
e54,OOO,OOO more than was appropriated last
year. But, then, that was just before the cleo
ton, and was a year of promise making, as
this has been one of promise-breaking.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

tall and ugly woman recently rendered to
clerk of the San Franclso Post-0aice ninety niue
coppers for which she demanded thirty three Stamps
Being told that she could only legally tender four
coppers she began to pace the corridor in great
wrath calling occasionally at the window until she
had made thirtythree separate tenders of the cop
pers and had received thirty three cent stamps
She may have been tall and ugly, but she was also
beautifully sharp.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

The failure yesterday of the Bulls Head
Bank, one of the old monetary institutions of
the city, surprised the Street. The curious
feature of the affair is that the banks experts
cannot say whether the sudden deficit in its
assets is defalcation or loss. When ten
days examination of the books cannot settle
that question, it does look as though things
had not been managed with ordinary official
prudence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

little miss Of eight in Boston. on being recently in
formed that her aiiectionate grandmother had made
her Life Member of a missionary society, objected
the ground that she did not wish to DO eaten by
savages."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

The trouble on the st. Louis, Kansas City,
and Northern Railroad seems to have been
one of those causeless affairs which often
spring from so-called protective organizations.
The brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
claiming jurisdiction in the region through
which the ST. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern
Railroad is laid, notified to the officers OF that
corporation that certain engineer must be
discharged because he had run an engine dur
ing q strike several years ago. The officers
of the road refused to discharge the
man, as he was competent, sober,
and industrious. At last accounts, it had
been found necessary to call out and organize
the militia, though the general blockade Of
travel on the road has been partially broken.
Many engines have been "ditched" by the
rioters, and great damage has been done to
the property of the railroad company. All this
wasteful strife is the work of a lawless gang
of men who fancied they had alright to pro-
scribe fellow-craftsman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

A very pluoky school-mistress keeps in Corinth, N.
Y. She recently had occasion to reprimand pupil.
when a brother of the scholar rushed at her and
took her by the throat. Forthwith she knocked him
down. Getting up, he tried the experiment over
again, with like result. She then informed this
champion that if he tried it third time she would
kill him. and he, not in the least doubling that she
would keep her word. concluded TO eyacuate the
seminary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

We are inclined to think that small, popular
work onthe duties of jurors, which might be studied
by every citizen would be of considerable usefulness
especially in Vermont, where the Court recently
set aside verdict which had been secured by the
Jurors drawing cuts"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21
ConlIliug won no laurels in his onslaught upon
Mr.. Schurz

Many other people than those for whom the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's address at New
Haven, yesterday, was intended will be glad
to read what he had to gay about the choice
of vocation. A young minister, he says, must
choose between parish and o mission. He
should 60 where he is most needed. The fact
that the young man loves ideas better than
he does folks, or that he has some sermons ana
wants to see how they will fly should not interfere
with his obvious duty. This is what MI
Beecher thinks of young ministers beginnings
in their sacred calling. Possibly there are
some neophytes in other professions than tnat
of divinity to whom some such admonltlon
may be timely. To preach Christ is not al
ways to preach ones pet ideas; and duty 10
country and humanity often makes sad havoc
with ones special preferences in life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

Although the President finds reformation
of the Civil Service an uphill business, he is
not discouraged from trying his hand on the
military. The order forbidding army officers
to attend Congress for the purpose of lobbying
was needed Military men often have great
and personal interest in pending bills. But it
is wrong to lobby. Besides, it brings the
army men in contact with Congressman; and
that is more demoralizing than mere lobbying.
BY all means, let us have a reform somewhere.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

Is ne it about time the Brazilian Govern
ment took steps to warn people against fraud
ulent immigration agents in Europef Another
party of unfortunate dupes who have been
seduced from their native land, arrived in this
city from Rio JaneirO, yesterday. >These poor
people are from England; but though they
are harder than the Italians who have pre-
coded them, their sufferings have been great.
1t would really seem that such heartless
trick as this which has been practiced so often
might be stopped.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

AS was feared, the representatives of farm
ing communities could not sufficiently realize
the needs of this city and Brooklyn to rescind
the mortgage tax law. An amendment con-
filming the remission of the tax to the south
ern counties failed to pass the Assembly
after that the original bill was defeated by a
considerable majority. So we must be content.
for long while to come, to see the counties
of New Jersey adjoining us, where no such
injurious tax prevails, Outstrip New-York,
Westminster, and Kings Counties in growth
and prosperity, Withdrawing from us those in
dustrous citizens whom we most need to re-
tain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-03-21

Mr.. COnkliDg denies, with manner and en-
phasis that smack of the Bowery, the report
which has been more or less current for years
that, hike Senator Carpenter, he has been
in receipt of retainer from the
Central Pacific Railroad double his
annual salary from the Government. If, as
we hope, we may accept his statement as a
frank and unqualified denial of the essence of
the story, and not as another Credit Mo-
bilier equivOcation, we can pardon some
thing 10 the natural heat it would
breed in the breast of man of honor. Yet
it seems to have reused no such passion in
the Senator from Wisconsin. For the rest, MIR.