Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-07-14

NEW YORK, July IL.
Two well-dressed men to-day OBJ
tained admission to the house OF Ma
thies NJ. Dancer. They no Dor Gu
tered than they seized Mrs. Dancer,
bound and gagged her and let in five
others. They proceeded to ransack
the house from top to bottom, and 3D.
tanned $4,000 in Virginia bonds. There
is no clue t the robbers.
Beecher Sercnadel-He Talks for an
Hour and Says he IS Now all
Right.
NEW YORK, July IL.
The people and temporary residents
of Peekskill and neighborhood, pre-
coded by a band of music and a COM
pan of militia, marched to Resthill
last night and serenaded Rev. ii. w.
Beecher. After an address by Judge
Wells, giving expression of confidence
in him as a maj and as a Christian
minister of the gospel, Beecher spoke
for nearly an hour. Among other
things he said: "When / began my
life | had 40 intention of being a great,
eloquent and wise man, but l did mean
to tie a good and honest man, and do
mean to spend all the strength God
gave me in making my fellow men
better. This l have done by the help
of God. make this assertion mere
particularly because some papers seem
to think [ have done it by the help and
permission of newspapers; but l have
done it i'm spite of them. do not ask
that they should care for my future,
for my future is in the keeping Of Lord
God, to whom my mother directed
mo. l should like to know who is go
ing to stop my mouth with a muzzle.
About 1870 and 1871, and for three or
four years, l had to go through pretty
deep ate at times, but l kept it 10
myself. The revelation of it tn man
kind came within a year, but | have
got through it. / am receiving scores
and hundreds OF letters. cOuch9d in the
most earnest and affectionate condo!-
ence for the fiery trials though which
| am going; but the ashes OF that fire
were scattered long ago. | arr growing
in strength and elasticity OF body, and
/ am all right. The letters / have re
ceived from Baptist clergymen, from
clergymen in the ministry of the Epis-
copal Church, and especially letters
and teiegranis from Roman Catholic
priests have been among the most
Christian expressions rendered. l
prize these letters. Churches have
prayed for me; households have prayed
for me; mothers, kneeling in the midst
of their little children, have prayed for
me; and / will say that these prayers
have been more to me than the plaud-
its of the people in the streets. 1t has
been this that has made me happy. j
have no new course to take; l am too
old to change my position. l shall go
on trusting men; l have pursued that
doctrine all my lite and only once in
forty years have / made a mistake. !
shall love men and | shall not stop to
think of their faults before i love them.
/ propose to go on with my work
with confidence in men, not preaching
merely with the difference between
right and wrong, but this: that there is
no justice, nc serenity, no punishment
that are good unless administered in a
spirit of love. The expenses of this
trial have been enormous, enough to
bankrupt a country minister five times
over, and would have destroyed me
but for Plymouth Church, and even
with their help / shall barely get
through, for the expenses Of the trial
to me have been over 81, 200. On the
other side they have been very large,
but they have got no money 10 pay
them with" Beecher elected much
laughter and was frequently warmly
a~pplauIed throughout his long ad-
dress.
A shocking Murder Tonnes 90 Light.
New YORK. July IL.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. c.,
states that the most inhuman murder
ever committed in that State has just
come to light. Schott Portina, a white
man. u his wife's throat, cut her head
off, unjointed her at every joint, then
cut the flesh Off the bones and attempt.
ed TO burn her body up, but did moi
succeed. He then murdered his little
boy, q child eight ilonths old, in the
same manner and buried the two bod
les in a marsh, where they we're found
last week by his infuriated neighbors
The circumstances show that Portina's
| father and one of his brothers were &C
cess0ries to the murder.