The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-19

figures to Gen. Stolbrand and Hon. Mr..
Carpenter, and leave the public to decide
on the subject of extravagance and re-
sponsibility for our present condition.
At future time, I will pursue the sub
ject further in its various aspects.
TRUTH
LYNCH LAW IN New YoRK.-The village
of Woncordia, in Jefferson County, New
York, has recently been mystiied by a
succession of robbcries. Finally, it was
determined that every house in the town
should be searched by self-constitutcd
vigilance committee. The work had not
well begun before it was nscertained that
an old resident, DR.. busch, had drawn
his money out of the bank and left sud
denly on horseback. He was soon over
taken by band of mounted pursuers.
and, on being brought bnck, confessed
to eight robberies, whereupon he was
seized by an infurintetl mob, who placed
rope round his neck and led him to a
neighboring road. The following ac-
count of the closing scenes is given by
the Watertown Dispatch: THE moose was
fastened around his neck and the end of
the rope thrown over limb of IL tree
and grasped by the eager and excited
crowd, who in I'M instant had the BODY
Of the doctor dangling in the air.
Thrice he was let down and asked
If he had accomplices. The un-
fortunate man persisted that he had
none, and seaing he had no chance of
mercy, he asked at the last time the
benefit of clergy. Strange to say, the
crowd granted this reasonable request,
and Methodist minister offered long
and impressive prayer for the doomed
mans soul. Rusch also began praying,
but his auditors were not impressed, and
told him to cut it short He begged
for more time to pray, but his impatient
hearers swung him up with the words
on his lips. The majority of the mob
stayed until the last spark of life had
1ed, when they returned to their homes.
Some others, heavily under the influence
OF whiskey, stayed behind and perpe-
trated more dastardly act than did the
man they hanged. They cut the corpse
down and robbed it of the money he had
drawn from the bank and his gold watch
and chain, leaving his body where it
fell, with the rope still round his neck,
in which condition it was found and
taken charge of by the officers of the law
jury was summoned by Squire Tie
mann and an inquest held. The verdict
was in accordance with the foregoing
facts. He had previously borne good
| 80 heinous."
This is certainly one of the most
brutal cases Of lynch law that ever oc-
CURED in civilized community. The
popular frenzy that summarily punishes
rape, or kills the murderer when courts
have fallen into bad rcpute, or even
wreaks vengeance on the horse thief in
| newly settled sections. is, at least, COM
prehensible. But here is a criminal
lynched for ordinary theft, when the
stolen articles were recovered at his
dwelling; his dying prayers nre brutally
cut short, and the dcnd body is rihed by
yandals-all this in an old settled sec
ton dotted with churches, schools, rail
roads and telegraph poles. Perhaps
the strnngest feature of it, from news
paper standpoint, is that such an ont
! rage could be perpetrated in State like
New York, and almost passed unnoticed,
the tclegrnphic dispatches making no
alluSlon to 1t whatever, notwithstanding
the eXtra facilities existing there. The
news comes now only by the old fash
! ioncd mails.
BAKED IBLE.--Thcre is Bible in
Lucas County, Ohio, which, Mt one time.
contained some very warm scriptnral
texts. 1t belongs to n Mr.. Scheboldt. II
native of Bohemia. 1t wns formerly the
property of his grand d-mothcr, who was
very devout Protestant. During one of
those unfortunnte periods when religious
prosecutions were common in Austria n
law Was passed mt the instance of the
Catholics, that every Bible in the hands
of the people should be surrendered to
the priests, to be burned. Mrs. Schc-
boldt determined to save hers, and when
the party came to search her house, she
had just prepared n huge batch of dough
for the oven, and. taking her precious
Bible. she wrapped the yielding dough
around it and quickly deposited it in the
oven. Here it was most thoroughly
baked, but wns saved uninjurcd from
the fiery furnace of the priests 1t NAV
be said to have been saved from tho fire
by fire, and has passed down through
several generations as memorial of the
days when men were not allowed to wor-
ship God in accordance with the dictates
of their own consciences. 1t ought to