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would. and both started off in the di.

would, and both started off in the d.
rection of the marshes. When
they arrived at the spot where
the body was found, Jesse told
the Miller boy to sit down, and the lit
tie fellow, not dreaming Of his danger,
did so. The young fiend then imme-
diately sprang upon him, clapped his
left hand over the little innocent's
mouth to stop his outcries, and then,
with the same jack-knife that had, a
month before, been used to murder the
unfortunate Katie Curran, the monster
deliberately cut the throat of the little
boy that implicitly trusted him. The
boy struggled fearfully, and the muir
derer, desperate at his failure in not at
the first blow killing his victim, stabbed
him repeatedly in the bowels
and chest. He mutilated the body
in a frightful manner, but
does not know, as he says, to what ex-
tent; and finally left his victim in dy-
ing condition. He cleaned his knife and
person, and then took a car for Boston
proper, going to the Common, where he
remained some time, and then returned
home. He says he had no intention of
killing any one up to the time of meet
ing the Miller boy, and the nefarious
plan entered his head on the instant he
beheld the boy. Once. he says, consci-
ence, or something, made him turn back
after he had started, and leave the boy
where he had found him, but something
seemed to draw him on. He had to go.
This, in effect, is the confession, and
it was told in the same cool manner as
the story Of the murder of Katie Cur
ran.
An adjourned session Of the jury of
inquest in the Kate Curran case was
held yesterday afternoon, and the
mother and brother Of the murderer
were the only witnesses examined.
Their story gives nothing additional to
what has already been sent in these
dispatches. They seem to be wholly
innocent Of any completely in the foul
deed. The boy is as cool and collected
as ever, and hates the newspapers for
publishing so much of his history. He
has shown considerable tact in direct
ing his counsel in the line of defense
which they should adopt. His confess
sion was made simply because he said,
it burdened his mind, and he wanted
his family to be relieved Of all sus-
picion.
Public indignation still runs high. and
every fact connected with the case is
eagerly caught up.
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BosroN, July 23.-Thc chief feature
in the Pomeroy case yesterday is the
startling fact that the young monster
coolly confesses having murdered the
boy Horace F. Miller, in April last, for
which crime he is now in custody
awaiting trial. He gives no reason for
the deed, except that given for all his
other crimes-that he could not help it.
The chief Of police has not as yet, got
the full confession, and it was only last
evening ferreted out by reporter, his
statements in this mornings papers be-
ing the first intimation the police OF
public had of the affair. The state
ment was made in writing and signed
with his own name. No efforts were
made to extract it from him, and he
has submitted it of his own free will.
The details given stamp him as mon
ster who should be summarily dealt
with. without clemency, as he shows
neither regret nor renorse for
his wicked course. This is
the substance of his confession;
On the morning Of the 22d Of April he
rose early and went to the store, and
afterward went to the city. returning
home about 9 o'clock. He remained at
the store until 1880 o'clock, when he
told his mother that he was going to
the city. She gave her permission. and
he went over to his mother house. He
remained few moments. and then
started for the city proper. He. how
ever, went up Chester avenue to Eighth
street, where he saw the little Miller
boy, and Immediately his evil geniue
got possession of him. and he deter
mined to torture him, if not kill him.
He asked the boy if he would like to
see the steamer. and the boy said he
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IRed Wing Republican, Esd. ]

A young physician named Richmond,
resident of Cannon Falls, was tarred and
feathered about one O clock on Monday
morning for the reasons and in the man
stated below. About six weeks ago he
married girl living in the place, Miss
Jennie Taylor, said by all residents Of
the Falls whom we have seen to bear an
excellent reputation and known to be Of
irreproachable character. Three days
after the marriage he quarreled with
his young wife, and not long after left
her, refusing to live with her and, as
we hear it, taking considerable pains to
blast her good name among the people.
But instead of running the reputation of
the girl it was his first duty to protect,
he seems to have had eminent success in
throwing his own previously good name
the winds. The community have natur-
ally taken sides with the girl, and the
indignation even of the staid, thinking
people knew no bounds.
On Sunday night party Of twenty
men went to his Office where DR.. Rich
mond slept, and one Of them called
him up on pretence of needing his pro-
fessional services at some distance.
While the doctor was hitching up his
horse the whole party surrounded him,
stripped him and applied coat of tar
and feathers. They then strapped him
to board, took him to the most public
part Of the street and tied him to a
post, where they left him intending that
ne should be found there by the people
in the morning. During the night.
however, he freed himself and went
home.
Whatever may have been the conduct
of DR.. Richmond, OF however much the
outraged feelings and rights of the girl
may have entitled her to the sympathy
Of her friends and neighbors, the un-
lawful violence resorted to can not be
be justified. 1t is too primitive and
rude an expression of popular indigna-
ton to be resorted to in an intelligent
community in 1874. Still, We suspect
he neither deserves nor receives any
sympathy.
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Paxanini to SivOri.

Probably no one ever equalled Nicolo
Paganini (l784) as a violinist. At the
age of eight he composed sonata,
that none but himself could play
it. At this time he played at the
church three times week, and made
his debut at the theatre at nine. From
fourteen to twenty one he travelled, pro-
ducing an immense furore wherever he
appeared. Intimately connected with
his life was that of Camille SiyoriQ81
1t is somewhat remarkable circum-
stance that the birth of this young vir-
tuoso was FASTENED by the wonderful
strains of Paganini's violin; for on the
night he was born his mother visited a
concert given by the great Genoese,
whose mantle in later years rightfully
fell on the shoulders of Sivori.
At eighteen months he would play en-
two sticks to represent violin, and hum
melody of his own; and before he was
two, hearing band in the street, he.
managed to get out of the house and
followed the music several miles, and
leased so much shortly after for vio-
lin, that his father had to get one for
him. At four he could play anything
he heard sung and had became the pet
of the whole city, including the Queen
who often gave him presents. He
would never go to church, or anywhere
else, unless there was going to be mu-:
sic, and then no persuasion would.
keep him away. When he
was six Paganini return,
ed to the city, and sent for him, and on
hearing him play gave him lessons for
two months, when he was able to per-
form concertos in public. At ten he
played at the Conservatoire in Paris,
and went from thence to London. When
he was twenty-three Paganini, then
sick unto death, gave him his favorite,
violin, saying, ''You will be the only
survivor of my manner Six years,
later he came to this country, and q,
critic who saw him says: Gin manner
he is very modest and unassuming ap-
parently not wishing to pass himself off
upon the public for more than he is
worth. '-.'MusicdL Precocity," i7e
The GALAXY for august.
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If twenty millions worth Of real es--
tate were taken promiscuously in the
city of New York and thrown upon the
market in one week, it would not bring
to-day even here, the financial center,
one-half its market value one year ago.
Apply the same test any where
throughout the country in the same ra-
ito and the result would be the same.
Yet, in the face of all this the prostitu-
ted press and ring organs tell US things
are getting better. Republican con-
ventions proclaim great prosperity and
peace under Grants administra ion, and
tell us of 'sressoted prosperity" the
sspanic over And this state Of things
that few unprincipled Shylocks and
monarchists may perpetuate their sway
and transfer all the earnings of the
people into their own hands II Horace
II. Day of New York.
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Buying a Practice.

HE is but a landscape painter" as
Tennyson sings in "The Lord of Bur
leigh" but once he was physician,
and. if his knowledge of medicine was
equal tohis knowledge of art. he was q
very good physician. He was younger
then than he is now, and he is not SO
old. and he was greener-greener than
any spring foliage he ever painted, and
spr9g gs the Nv. WAY bIs is 81 spe m.de
short summer visit into the country,
and while there, heard incidentally OF
. country doctor who wished to sell his
practice. He was hesitating, was our
young friend. about his final choice OF
a profession having failed to procure
any but poor patients, who could not
pay. and having also failed to paint
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Comments Of Papers on the
Beecher-TiltOn Scandal
from the New York Tribune

Unless this frightful exposition is an.
swered promptly and fully. the most
famous pulpit the world has ever seen
since Paul preached on the Hill OF
Mars, is silenced, the life of the great
est preacher in the world is ended. 1t
is useless to fall back upon the record
of spotless and glorious career. There
is no longer safety or dignity in the
proud silence which would have so well
become the great pastor if there were
no words of his own to be explained.
No man living, least Of all his currish
assailants, would have the right to make
him open his lips in contradiction,
if his own hand was not
there to bear witness against him. Even
yet, the thousands who for so many
years have known and honored him,
and the vaster constituency to whom,
over the whole continent, his name has
stood as symbol of genius, piety and
every liberal aspiration, will wait for his
word to give them leave to trust him as
Of old. 1t will be an easy task. if he
should undertake it. If there be any
explanation, apart from the revolving
one given by Mr.. Tilton, which will
either make clear the falsity Of these
letters or interpret their humiliation
and remorse, the better sort Of people
in this country will hail it as tidings Of
great Joy.
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HailstOnes the Size of Oranges.

One Of the most extraordinary phe-
nomena ever witnessed in this country
took place on the Fourth of July in
Bergen county, New Jersey. About
6:l5 P. NJ, in the village Of Westwood,
during the celebration of the day, sud-
den darkness came over the village, and,
before the alarmed inhabitants could
seek shelter, violent storm of hail
stones descended upon the heads of the
crowd. Hailstones two inches and halt
inches in diameter, and as hard and
heavy as cobblestones, came down in o
furious shower. Hens and chickens
were killed in large numbers COWS and
horses were stunned. The frightened
populace ran in every direction, seeking
shelter in sheds, beneath trees, and in
every available spot. Fortunately the
majority escaped without injury.
A young lady named Miss b.
CART was, however, struck on the hand
by one of the hailstones and her wrist
and arm frightfully laccrated. At the
Ridgewood House, in the village, an
enormous amount of damage was done.
Not single pane of glass was left whole
in the building, and, incredible as it
may appear, the hailstones actually
broke through the slate roof, as if they
had been cannon balls. The storm COW
cred an area of about twenty-five miles,
stretching fr ON Spring Valley to Kinder
Kaimack. The storm prevailed at It's
utmost at the stations of Pascack and
Ridgewood, which are on the Hacken-
sack branch of the Erie railroad, and
the depots were completely riddled, as
though battle had been fought in the
neighborhood. AS late as six o'clock
yesterday morning hailstones were
picked up At the station, the size OF
walnuts. Through the section OF coun-
try where the storm ragged, perfect
scene of desolation can be witnessed.
Every tree is stripped of it's fruit, grain
fields of rye and corn laid low, and the
hope of hay this fall is gone. The SEN
sation created in this vicinity was, as
might be imagined, tremendous. In one
sewing machine factory, just above
Ridgewood, over LOCO panes Of glass
we're broken and the slate roof damaged.
The shower continued for just thirty
minutes, and in this short space of time,
damage to the amount of many thou
sand Of dollars was done. The hail
stones on an average were the size of
turkey eggs, and of every conceivable
shape, with sharp corners and edges that
cut like kniHes. During the continue
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The Growing Of Turnips.

The cheapness Of corn is one reason
why we do not grow turnips; but, now
that more attention is being paid to the
dairy, we shall give the root crops more
attention-not that they will, to any
great extent, take the place of corn
meal, or be largely planted; yet, in
SEINE seasons, and under many condi-
tons, these crops will be made to pay.
In our dry seasons we cannot
grow turnips or beets if we
would; but, in rainy seasons, when
the hay crop is poor and the corn
light, we may make up in the turnip-
crop. For this we need clean land.-
that is, clean Of weeds; but this we can
have if it will give the proper attention
to the preparation. If VIC have weedy
piece of old land that we wish to put in
to turnips, all we have to do is to begin
the preparation in the spring, and to
harrow the land weekly, or as often as
weeds appear. In this way We destroy
all the latent seeds Of the weeds, and,
at the same time, put the land in good
filth; for every one at all &C.
quainted with the culture of this root
knows that to grow turnips the land
must be made very firm, or no turnips
will be had. The man who looks for a
crop of turnips when the soil has been
neglected in the preparation may look
in vain. Manure is also good thing
for this crop, and, if it is filled with
the seeds of weeds, it should be applied
some weeks before the seeding, SO that
successive crops Of weeds may be de-
stroyed in the process of pulvcrizing
the soil for the preparation.
For some crops we must have land
free of the seeds of weeds, and yet
there are few crops in which we may
not destroy one or more SUGGESTIONS Of
weeds, even when sown broadcast.
Spring wheat, oats, and barley, may
be narrowed once after the plants
are two inches high, provided that
the surface is in a very fine condition,
as, in that case, the young weeds may
be destroyed without damage to- the
firmly rooted grain; but, in the case Of
turnips, that are not to be sown in the
middle of July, we have ample time to
destroy nearly all the weeds, simply in
the preparation Of the soil for the CROP
This narrowing and rolling to reduce
the soil to fine filth, is feeding the
soil; for the air, the dew, and the sum-
mer showers, carry down and deposit
plant food in the soil, and, as the weeds
are not allowed time to take it up and
appropriate it for their use, it is retain
ed in the soil for the turnip crop. This
is the true plan for the preparation Of
the soil for this crop, and one that is Of
almost universal application.
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From the New York World. ]

1t grieves us to couple in one SEN
tence two such names as those of Mrs.
Victoria W oodhull and of DR.. Leonard
Bacon. But it is the pleasure Of Mr..
Theodore Tilton that we should be
compelled to do so. Two years ago
Mrs. Woodruff published Mr.. Tilton to
the world as cuckold. Two months
ago DR.. Bacon, as Mr.. Tilton can never
have done with telling us, published Mr..
Tilton to the world as "a dog and a
knave." And now comes Mr.. Tilton
himself before an investigating commit
tee in Brooklyn to prove himself
a cuckold, with the shameless
ness of dog, and with the cunning
of knave. These are plain words.
Dean Swift would have used them in a
less imperative case. But no case more
imperative ever passed beneath the re-
morseless scourge of that stern execu'
toner. The statement now made pub
lie BY Mr.. Tilton of his domestic life
and troubles is simply an outrage not
upon his home only, but upon the very
idea of home itself; not upon his own
vile only, OUT upon Wom1uuoVu diU Tic
marriage-bond. Plain men reading it
will be tempted to esteem Daniel E.
Sickles in the comparison with this man
a gentleman and man of honor, and to
regard adultery as venial offence in
comparison with this mans leprous and
loathsome rindication of his conjugal
rights.
The charge now made against Mr..
Beecher rests, SO far IS Mr.. Tlton S
statement enables US to assign to it any
foundation At all, upon the alleged
knowledge had of this charge and the
alleged action taken IN consequence OF
it by certain third parties, and notably
by Mr.. Moulton, Mr.. Carpenter. and
Mr.. Oliver johnson. 1t is but common
" just, by the way, to say that letter
given in this statement as written by
Mr.. Oliver johnson to Mr.. Tilton on
this subject is absolutely the one oasis
of manliness and right feeling which re-
feshes this else desert waste of senti-
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ton Of the shower, the thunder and
lightning was incessant, and with the
screaming Of men, women and children,
and the shrieks of the affrighted cattle,
the scene was one truly awful.
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mentalism, pruriency, cowardice, and
filth. When Mr.. Beefher shall have
been confronted with these third parties
and Mr.. Beecher's testimony can be
weighed with or against theirs, it will
be IN order to form final judgment as
to the truth or falsehood OF the
charge which, so far as it rests
on anything now within the range
of vision of the public, rests alone upon
them and upon their testimony. But
as to Mr.. Tilton we need no further ev-
idence than his own. He stands before
us now by his own act, naked, shame
less. and unabashed. Or rather he does
not stand, for that is the characters
attitude of manhood; but squats before
us, leering, obscene shape. Koproph-
agous and foul, beslobbering with tears
of dramatic self-adulation the letters OF
the woman he had sworn to love. honor
and cherish, and spelling out with glee.
full, gloating emphasis to the ribald
crowd the syllables Of woman S whls'
pered tenderness, to enhance the picture
he would paint Of his own magnani'
nous moral beauty and of that woman
wretched lapse from loyalty to him and
his great heart. 1t is simply horrible
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(From the N. Y. Herald. }


Having dismissed Mr.. Tilton fro
this case as an act Of justice to his great
antagonist we come to the evidence con.
tanned in the letters of Mr.. Beecher and
Mrs. Tilton. We find many of them
marked with feeling, anxiety, care-ln.
| dicating condition Of life that could
not be regarded as happy. We lind nc
letter that can be construed into the
admission of crime of adultery. We
see the letters of woman described by
Mr.. Tilton as of ''native delicacy and
extreme sensibility," and man who
is known to all the world as clergy.
man of extraordinary eloquence and
power. These are precisely the letters
that would be written by such man
and such a woman. The more closely
we study them the more we are con-
WINGED that their relations were not in.
compatible with those Of true wife to
her husband.
1t is our duty to await the statement
of Mr.. Beecher before We pass final
Judgment. There is no doubt that this
misfortune is one of the most terrible
that has ever befallen a public man.
Dimmesdoll, when he went into the pill
lory. in Hawthorne's romance of the
''Scarlet Letter. suffered no such
agony as we find here recorded IN the
history of Henry Ward Beecher. Wha
days of sorrow, humiliation and abase-
ment, pursued by fury as relentless
and unpausing as Nemesis! Mr.. Tilton.
whatever the offence, has assuredly re-
venged it. Wherever he appears in
this sad narrative he is cool, resolute,
self-possessed- towards a pur-
pose which never escapes and never de-
ceivcs him. Mr.. Beecher is always the
suppliant, Mrs. Tilton the intercessor.
Mr.. Tilton, hard, pitiless. memorable,
with a preconceived purpose in his
mind, and compelling every fact and
sentiment to bend to it. Mr.. Beecher' S
letters Of sorrow, his wife's earnest
notes Of repentance. Mr.. Johnson's rec
ord Of his prayers and his tears-nay,
even the tender land one would certain
ly think almost sacred letters) in which
hopeful wife and mother sees the
measure of a husbands love, in the
love she bears to her Saviour and her
God. 1t is almost too painful to dwell
on these things, but our main thought
goes out to the great and noble soul
who is the illuEtrous accused. We are
proud to feel that thus far he comes out
of his trial magnanimous, brave,
sorely-stricken soul, who has suffered
unspeakable SORROWS, but who shows
himself in no way unworthy of his
genius. his fame and the forty years of
his blameless Christian life.
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place the first time and winning the
second. 1t must be owned that the
bows have right to feel elated.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-03-12

easily or quickly to return. A nervous
fever followed the shock he received, and
for two months he did not leave the home
stead and was confined to his bed. But
the old house was not lonely. The men
and women came, both his old friends and
some newcomers, and tried to make up to
him in some degree the love and sympa-
thy he had 80 long missed But for many
days 1t was evident that their kindness
panied and oppressed him.
1T appears like" said Pete "that a
rough word don't hurt him, but kind
one he can't stand" And this was true.
His soul was fortified against hatred and
contempt, but kind voice or gentle
caress, seemed to wound him 40 that he
would sob like infant
AS he recovered from his illness he
continued gentle, kind, and shrinking, to
fault. BY the operation of some spirit
ual law that do not fully comprehend,
he WAS after his recovery, one of those
who win a strange affection from others
Gis influence seemed like mild fascina.
ton. 1t was said of him in after years
that he was more truly loved, and by
more people, than any other man or
woman in all the settlements round.
Children loved him with passionate at
tachnent, and the woman Of child-like
nature whom he made his wife is said to
have died of grief at his death. He de
parted this life at the age of thirty eight
years, and he sleeps on the edge of the
great valley, with his mother and his
wife beside him-Atldntic Monthly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-03-12

AFEMALE lecturer in California, speak
ing in behalfof her sex, says Mans pleas
ures would never suit us, and his profits
we have We allow him enough 10 dress
respectfully, and TO take him to lectures
and other intellectual circuscs; but the
bulk Of his income we appropriate"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-03-12

The Wells (Minn.) Atlas says strange
circumstance in connection with the new
artesian well in that village, from which
there is a constant flow Of water through
two.inch pipe eight feet above the sur
face, was the pieces Of wood and other
foreign matter which came to the surface
after boring through the rock 1l6 feet
down, Some OF the pieces are in a good
state Of preservation, while some are more
or less decsmposed. s.