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The Russellville Democrat., 1875-05-13
STATE OFFICERS.

Governor, II. GARLAND. Auditor. Wm. R. MILLER Treasurer. r,.......,....I. J. tiit ht iiiIi4 Attorney General, .,,...-. ;S. r tnGuE ES' tom'r, state lands, ......J. \. SMlTllEE. CnancelIor. or............. .J. R. EAklN. Clerk of Chancery Court, ...... A. R., WITT. Adjutant General, ,.....C; II; WOOD ., Associates, w. NJ. Harrison, and DaVid Walker.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-05-13

METHODIST CHURCH South-every secon' Sabbath. All are invited to attend.
 Rev. W. J. DODSON, Pastor.
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-05-13
4th Senatorial! Dist.
COUNTY OFFICERS.

!tor, ............C .CmNs. D. TOBEY
The Russellville Democrat., 1875-05-13

CHRISTIAN CHuRcH.-Elder J. E. Dalton, breaches every second Lords day in each month, and saturday night before, at the Prairie Grove church, one mile cast ol Russcllvlle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-03-26

however-the story which we have related
did not get out for some years after the
worthy brother and sister had rested from
their labors, and it was then related by
Mr.. N himself, who was rather &C.
centric in his character, and. like numbers
of his ministerial brethren, fond of good
joke, and given to relating good stories.
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VEGETINE
yEGETINE

Is acknowledged and recommended by physicians
and apothecares to be the best purifier and
cleanser OF the blood yet discovered, and thou
sands speak in its praise who have been restored
to heal h.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-03-26

Instead of being putledup medicine has worked
its way up to its present astonishing success by
actual merit in curing all diseases of The blood of
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Another, Dovili.h Hoy.

The San Francisco Pomeroy is named
Henry Rogers and is only 10 years old.
When about Sycars ofagc, this youngster
was detected in catching the neighbors'
chickens, which, having conveyed to some
hiding place, he proceeded TO torture TO
death by affecting cuts on every part Of
their body with pieces of glass, apparent.
ly utterly regardless Of the sometimes
painful wounds which his own FINGERS re.
ceiyed from his unmanageabIe weapon
during the operation CurouSly enough.
he seemed 10 have sense enough 10 pro.
long the torture Of his victims by avoiding
any wound in the neck or other vital
part. so that the victims Of his blood.
lhrstiness were occasionally able to make
then. way home after being released.
About this time disposition 70 bite and
pinch children was manifested. his mother
sent him TO the Brothers School in Oak.
land, and afterward to two other private
schools, from all Of which he was sent
home IN n hurry as soon MS he began Ia
display his peculiar propenstics. ri.
nally, alter two years Of trouble with him,
the mother, who is an invalid, procured
HIM board with family named Ben.
nett, near Saucehto. and here for the
hrst time he seems TO have given full vent
to ms internal appetite Cor blood. One
day last week he inyeigled child Of the
family less than 3ycars old, into the barn.
and covered partially with gunny.sacks,
after which, with a piece OF bone, which
had been broken Sol as 60 present a chiScl.
ed edge, he proceeded 20 cut the child's
lips IN a most horrible manner, inflictinr
no less than nineteen wounds, and finish.
ing by severing is right ear from its head
with the exception Of slight piece of
SKIN ihe father Of the injured child
was absent at the time, and young Rogers
was instantly sent home to his mother.
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Showing the Queer.

A Decatur, Alabama, telegram OF the
18th says: United States Marshal Baker
arrived this afternoon with j. G. Gra-
ham of GAINESVILLE, Sumpter county; X.
s. Neil OF Alexander, and George Smp-
son and George Henley Of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, charged with counterfeiting.
b. d. Bowers. now under arrest here for
counterfeting, was foreman of the last
grand jury Of Green county, steward of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and SUI.
perintendent of a Sabbath school. When
arrested Bowers hal on his person 500
in % cent fractional currency and $500
in 50 and $40 legal tenders Bowers,
socially and financially, is prominent,
and gave bond for $4,000. Dunn and
Gordon Of Tuscaloosa county, in charge
OF a deputy marshal, are en- route. A
delayed train is the cause of non.arrival
Deputy United States Marshal Wheat,
from the middle district OF Tennessee, ar
rived to-day, having in custody w. w.
Gordon, Of Linneville, Tenn. Gordon, in
his section, has commanded the respect
OF the community. Gordon had evaded
arrest for several days, and was particu.
larly wanted. 1t is claimed his connec-
ton with the counterfeiters is conspicu.
Gus.
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commercial honor; by its opposition to
unsound financial projects; by its calm
avoidance ofcollision with foreign powers
by its reliance on justice and its reason
rather than force in the settlement Of dis
putes; by its firm vindication Of the ma.
tional dignity and authority; by rigidly
enforcing the laws, correcting abuses,
furnishing offenders and enforcing re.
trenchment, without Boosting and osten-
tatious presentation, deserves the graft
tude of the American people, and adds
lustre to the service in war Of the distin.
gushed soldier aud patriot who stands
at its mead
The following ticket was nominated:
For secretary Of state. Fred. w. Seward I;
comptroller, Gen. +. Il. Spinner; treasu.
rer, Gen. L. A. Merritt; attorney gen.
eral, Geo. 5. Danford; state engineer, o.
II. P. Cornell canal commissioner, Vim.
L. Tinsley; state prison inspector, I B.
Ives.
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New York Repmbiican..

The Republican convention of New
York which met at Saratoga on the Sth
adopted a platform which declares that
the national government should remain
IN the hands OF those who sustain the
guarantees of the amended constitution.
The welfare of the country requires a
Just, generous, forbearing national policy
IN the southern States, a firm refusal To
use military power except for purposes
clearly defined in the constitution, and
the local enforcement Of national authori.
ty by those who are in sympathy with
such policy, and will heartily support
It; It demands honesty, economy and
efficiency in every branch Of the State
and national administrations prompt in.
yestigation Of all charges Of wrong Going /;
summary exposure, prosecution and pun.
lshment of wrongdoers; heartily com.
mendS the action Of all officers, whether
oil the State or national government, in
honest efforts for the correction of pub.
nc abuses, and pledges them
constant and faithful support !:
the guilty offenders in the
management Of canals should be brought
W specify punishment, and the expcu.
tive, under the powers already conferred
upon him should suspend all officers who
have violated the law; further imitation of
the currency under any pretense what.
ever would be public calamity, and the
interests Of honest industry and common
welfare demand the speediest possible re.
turn to specie payments; the whole sub.
ject OF taxation ought to be carefully and
wisely reviewed, to the end that lis bur.
dens should bear equally upon all rec5g.
nizlng as conclusive the President public
declaration that he is not a candidate for
denomination, and with the sineere,t
gratitude for his patriotic services. we
declare opposition to the election Of any
President for a third term. The free
public school is the best work of the
American republic; We therefore demand
the unqualified maintenance Of the pub.
nc school system and its support by equal
taxation, We are opposed to all secta.
ran appropriations. and denounce As
crime against liberty and republican insti.
'uuons any project for seetarian division
orsubversion OF the school fund Of ina
State. The rational administration no
It's steadiast fidelity g the principles Of
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CURRENT NEWS HENS,

jeff. Davis has fallen into Redpath's
hands, and seems likely to acquire a ma i.
tiOnal reputation.
A catfish weighing two hundred pounds
was recently caught in the Missouri near
Sioux City.
In the second trial of p. =. Winter.
mute for the murder of Gen. McCook of
Dakota Territory, the jury brought in a
verdict Of not guilty.
Chicago people are beginning to imi.
tate Boston notion by emitting the Gus.
tomary front fence and leaving the yard,
otherwise, the LAWN exposed
There was man found dead in Rhode
Island with three pairs Of trousers on. II
was thought that if he had only had two
pairs on he could have got in alive.
The treasury department is Informed
by special agent sent to San Francisco
that illicit distillation has been carried
on in that city for two years at the rate
oil one thousand gallons day. Gaugcrs.
collectors and supervisors we're parties 10
the frauds or negligent in duty.
A disease known as tho Spanish foyer
is creating havoc among herds OF cattle
,Ietely imported into Lincoln, ILL.,, from
Kansas and the Indian Territory. The
disease is confined to this class, and il
not contagious. Farmers are seriously
alarmed and are deferred from shipping
more.
An enormous leopard recently arrived
at Liverpool from Asia, and was sent by
train 70 London. lie made such good
use Of his time on the journey that when
the train stopped, he stepped out-and
there he was-a leopard at large in Eus.
ton Station. There was panic, and
they were compelled to shoot him.
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fyic's Counterpart i'm New York--An.
ether Rural Editors Failure at Sui
eide.
New York SUM-

II is seldom that we hear of the suicide
Of an editor. Enjoying, as editors in
varlably do, the most princely salaries, or
receiving vast revenues from establish.
ments which they own-lving, in fact,
upon the fat Of the land, they are seldom
tempted to violate the canon which the
Everlasting has fixed 'gainst self.slaueht.
er. 1t is with surprise, therefore, that
we read OF the dark attempt Of Charles
Bowen, editor of the Mohawk Valley
Register, at the village Of Fort Plain,
New York. Bowen mailed letter the
other day to his mother, informing her
where his stark remains might be found.
Then he went down 10 the banks Of the
murmuring Mohawk, and, suspending his
garments upon the limb Of hickory
tree, plunged into the stream.
The letter to his mother having
been delivered within a few moments
after II had been mailed, the good lady
assembled IL posse and went to find her
son. At the precise spot indicated the
young journalist clothes were found.
and there, toO,in the middle the stream
was the editor, with his face upturned to
the skies. He had waded out until he
had reached depth Of five feet, and,
standing there,he was apparently waiting
Tor the tide to come up and drown him (:
an event for which he must have waited
long and YEARLY, as there were no tides
IN the Mohawk. With difficulty the
young man was persuaded TO come out of
the water aud rehabiitate himself in the
garments of earth. The only excuse
which he could give fer thus seeking 70
abandon the brilliant career Of a country
editor was that his friends had "all gone
back on him." The Mohawk YdHey
Register will be published as usual here.
after.
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In few minutes they had them drawn
again and then shooting began. saw
Thompson fire the first shot, and he con.
tinued firing. By this time the firing
became general. The colored people
soon concentrated at this point, when the
aggressors ceased firing and dispersed.
Then ! supposed the trouble was over.
Soon, however, heard reports Of guns
at the east end Of the speakers stand,
which continued and seemed spreading in
every direction east of where was.
saw two colorcd men wounded, one seri.
ously, the other about dead saw several
other colored men wounded more or less.
! have since learned of the death of Chas
Chiffon, Martin Sevely and Frank Thomp.
son, white, and Alex. Wilson, Louis Har-
grove and son Of Sam Anthony, and
another boy whose name is not known.
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Public PIunderers Punished by Judge
pershing.

At the meeting of the county court at
Pottsville on the morning of the 9th inst.
the court room, corridors, and all the
grounds, were crowded with people from
all parts Of the country, anxious to see
and hear the termination of the criminal
prosecution against our county commits
sioners for careless and fraudulent ex.
penditure of public funds. The presid.
ing Judge, @. L. Pershing, called on Mo-
SEES Helm, Patrick Conroy and Valentine
Benrer, the convicted commissioners, to
stand before the court. Upon the bench
were seated the five Judges Of our court.
They assumed grave looks, while the i'm.
mense audience listened in almost breath
less silence to hear the reward which
was to be earned by the convicts for
their crime. Judge Pershing announced
in clear, distinct tones that the court had
unanimously determined to over.rule the
motion for new trial that it was his
painful duty to pass degrading sentences
upon men who had been honored and
trusted by the people Of the county with
the administration of most important du-
ties that the prisoners had entered into
a conspiracy TO defraud the county that
the court intended the sentence they
should pass not only as punishment to
the culprits, but as a warning to all pub
lie officers, among whom n mania for en-
bezzlement seemed to have broken out
The court, therefore, sentenced each Of
the prisoners to an Imprisonment for two
years in the county jail, to pay fine Of
81 1000, and TO be deprived Of their office
as commissioners.
The culprits endeayored to maintain
an Indifferent appearance during the de
livery OF the sentence, but flushed cheeks
and unsteady looks betrayed only too
well how unreal was the assumed com
posture, and the haste with which they
tried TO escape from the suppressed mt.
muir Of approval showed how deeply they
felt their degradation. They were at
once removed TO jail by the Sheriff, not.
withstanding motion to suspend execu.
tion OF sentence, pending proceedings
which they intended TO institute in the
Supreme Court. The Court refused to
entertain the motion. General satisfac.
ton was expressed with the action of the
sCOnTt, though the sentence was much
severer than had been expected by the
convicts and their friends. Trial was
had before a full bench, and every care
taken, so that the prisoners rave little to
hope from proceedings to reverse, even il
they can get the Supreme Court to under
take a review. As soon as quiet had
been restored, the Court announced the
appointments to fill vacancies in the
Board Of Commissioners. These were
Lewis c. Dougherty of pottsyille, Repub-
hcan, and Michael Beard of Tamaqua,
Democrat. Although three were con
yicted, there were only Two vacancies,
Benner, one Of the convicts, having gone
out Of office last January.
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An Insane Observation-Disclosures Ideas
ON the POIitical situation.

Fred Douglass has been interviewed on
the situation. lie strongly advocates the
election Of President Grant to a third
term, rs means of settling the trouble
in the south. He said he was free to con-
fess his conviction that, if it could be GER
tain hat President Grant would be his
own successor, the violence and bloodshed
now pending at the south would instantly
cease. 1t would show that the north and
the hation are in earnest, and that the
same spirit lives in The loyal heart that
subdued the rebellion itself, and gave free
dom TO the country. He looked upon all
declarations against the third term, upon
the part of conventions, as wholly un-
called for and culpably mischievous. lie
said that Grant had made the country
obliged to him for many good lessons. and
for none more than the lesson of silence
under the impudent charge that he was
seeking third term. He even felt regret
that the President had regarded it as his
duty to write the letter in response to the
Pennsylvania convention; for, although
the letter was admirable. it weakened to
some extent the force Of II deserved
rebuke, which had been already express
Gu Ny ulShllleu Sllence.
In relation to the negro troubles. he
says, vindictively, "lf the negro must die
1t the South, my advice to them is to
sell their lives as dearly as possible. Let
it be seen by those cowardly mobacrats
that in attempting to slaughter black
men they invite the knife to their own
Threats, and fire and rapine to their own
hearthstones, and they will cease"
Mr.. Douglass idea of the duty of the
North is tersely expressed. He deemed
it the first duty of the loyal North to
take possession of the different State
governments Of the South, and drive
from power the Democratic party--the
party of slavcry--the party of rebellion
the party of apology for every muir.
der committed against the colored race
by the lately defeated shareholders and
rebels. No language is adequate to ex-
press the dimensions of the calamity
which would befall the whole people, and
especially his race, from restoration to
power, in the States and in the Nation,
of the Democratic party.
Mr.. Douglass strikes the keynote of
the situation from the extreme Republi-
can standpoint. With the great losses
in the North, it Is thought that only by
seizing the State governments of the
South can the reign Of the Republican
party be secured. AS matter of course
1T is altogether too late in the day for
such desperate game.
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Movements OF Professor Jenney's
Party--FurtEser Gold Discoveries

Correspondence Inter-0cean. dated Sept. 4. !
The expedition left Rapid Creek, Aug.
IL, FOR the north to the vicinity of Bear
Butte, where Comp Terry, the fifth per-
manent camp. was made on the south fork
of Bear Creek. The god prospects are
encouraging in that region as reported by
the geological corps. Rich diggings, said
to have been discovered sixty miles north
Of tie stockade on French Greek, are To-
Gated in this district. The command
moved west August 81 from Camp Terry
to this place, situated near the base Of
lnyan Kara. Bear Lodge, thirty miles
to the north of Laramie Peak, is said by
the Indians to contain gold, to ascertain
which Professor Jenny and the scientific
corpS,with Lieutenant Coale and cavalry
escort, leave here tomorrow, and also to
determine whether Bear Lodge is noun.
tam or mountain range. Professor
Jenny and Mr.. Newton have geologized
Bear Butte,Crow Peak, Spear Fish Canon.
or, as it is called, Grand Canon, and Red
Water Vale, and report immense de.
posits of carboniferous limestone extend.
ing from east 10 west, but no mineral of
any kind was discovered On September
~ the expedition will rendezvous at Bear
Butte and arrive at Fort Laramie about
October Is.
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Accused OF the murder of one child
and Abandonment OF AnOthtr

[st Louis Correspondence Chicago Tribune
A horrible case Of crime and murder
las recently come to light in Franklin
County. II appears that a widow named
Rebecca Fades lived in that county inlS72,
and that she had two adopted children,
one a boy. Louis Merrill Taylor, 6, and
his sister Kate, Is years of age. One
day, in the spring Of that year, she be.
came angrS with the little boy, and sez.
ing an AK, struck him upon the head.
afterwards beating him to death. The
murderess, assisted by two men named
Charles Fades and William Howard, hid
the body in the stove, but subsequently
carried it off and buried it secretly. The
girl was the only witness of the heartless
killing Of her brother, and it was agreed
that she must be gotten out Of the way.
They did not dare commit second muir.
der, but they set upon plan which was
almost as atrociOus as murder. They
mounted the girl upon barebacked
mule and conveyed her into the middle
Of dense forest 40 miles distance, in
Platte county, Mo-. and, after using
horrible threats left Der alone. After
that Mrs. Fades disappeared from che
country, Charlie Fades became noto.
rious horsc-thief, and Howard was hung
| by mob for stealing horses. The little
girl at the time Of her cruel abandon.
ment,was weak and sick, but, after innu.
merable hardships, found her way out of
the woods, and finally made her way to
the house of Mrs. Eldridge, the father OF
Mrs. Fades, but not on friendly terms
with his daughter. The girl influenced
by the threats, was afraid to tell the
story of her wrongs, and, consequently,
said nothing about the heinous crimes OF
| Mrs. Fades until about year ago. A
week ago, while out riding horse-b back,
she met Charlie Fades, and recognized
/ him. She followed him and had HIM
arrested. Last week, while in Jail, he adj.
dressed letter to Mrs. Rebecca Blot.
inghouse, No. 262S Papau street.. st.
Louis. Sheriff Coffey suspected the wo.
man was the identical murderess who was
wanted. lie telegraphed the Chief Of
Police in this city, who sent a detective
and had her arrested. She afterwards
acknowledged being Mrs. Fades, but
denied the crimes charged against her.
She had been living over year at the
house whre she was captured, and with a
man named Bollinger, who ohared to, and
did to-day, marry the woman in Jail this
afternoon. She was taken back to Platte
county, where her trial will take place.
She is 40 years old, but well preserved
and good looking, and does not look at all
like the great criminal she is alleged to be.
Many other crimes are charged against
her. Among these is the one that, in 1877
she conspired to have her father and,
mother assassinated in order to get their
property, and that the murderous plan
was only frustrated by the accidental
discovery If it by her father.
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signalling his arrival by setting FIRE to
the curtains and nearly destroying the
house. His mother declares that the
mania has come upon him entirely with
in the past two years, and that when ac.
cused of his deeds he frankly owns w.
only saying he could not help it," Oh
one occasion he got hold of a black and.
tan puppy, belonging 10 his step.father.
which was Of so dlpinutive breed that
when half grown it weighed one and "A
half pounds, and literally hayed it alive.
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Mrs. Oates "a, Long France Rnces.

lohve Logan TO the New York Graphic
a trim little "equestrienne''-a phin.
cas- calls It and then pretends he knows
French. while Madame from Paris. who
is acquainted with scarce dozen words of
English, sustainS us in the assertion that
the only way TO speak in France of n la.
dy on horse.brck is TO call her uRe ANA.
some "a dashing little Amazon who climb.
ed up the stairs Of the grand stand in her
riding habit, and finding the breeze strong
sent groom down 20 unstrap from her
saddle cunning little coat, which she
douned, was Mrs. Oates, the opera singer.
] think this was Mrs Oates 5 first appear.
ancc At the races, though she mas been
stopping at the Branch some weeks. I'm.
der ordinary circumstances. 20 speak of A
lady's conduct as sans repr0che would
seem 20 Toe upcrrogatory, but when that
lady is young and pretty. when she is an
opera boutie singer, when sheis unhappy
IN her marital relations, when She IS stop.
ping at a watering place hotel, always the
very tropical dollhouse in the nursery Of
scandal, and when her conduct is SO de.
corouS that Sir Benjamin Back.bite and
Lady Sneerwcl and Mrs. Candour and
Mr.. Snake have been actually obliged 10
strike off Of their books As positively I'M.
assailable. | feel that 1t is my boundcn
duty tell Il IN Gath and telegraph il TO
Askelon.
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have been hanged, if they can" 'Havc
no fears about that returned his fell
low member" your friends will see that
you are no worse treated than rich
man.