The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-22

starvation must have led TO the deed
A respectable mechanic was arrested
the other day for stealing something
outside Of a store to get his vile ana
three children food to eat, as be had
been unable to get work for weeks.
The bricklsyers' association lave pc
titioned the Common Council to give
them work to keep their families from
starving, and the Department OF
Public Works is TO push ahead all
enterprises possible 10 afford this re-
lief.
CRUELTY.
A strange malignity seems begot-
ten by the cruelty of the times. A
bov of sixteen tried to burn bis faith
err and mother in bed by pouring ker-
osene round them and setting fire to
il. Kerosene, for. once, failed to ex-
plode and kill the user. A Jersey
couple were arrested for killing their
little boy of six, by cruel treatment.
His stepmother, a Southern woman Of
frightfuI temper, told a aeigbbor they
were going South before winter, but
she meant to bury the boy first. His
arm was once broken by rough treat
ment at home, and be was an object of
pity among the neighbors for the con-
tinual beating by which be was tor
mented. About two weeks ago he
went TO school frightfully bruised,
and seeming stupid, instead of bright
aud active, as usual. When ques-
toned be said be didn't dare to tell
what had hurt him. His little sister
said the stepmother knocked him
down with a piece of board, and
kicked him about the house. A
neigbbor took him in, but his brutal
father came for him, scolding the
child for lot going home. A bed
was made for him on two chairs, be-
fore the FIRE, where he lay a few days
till be died. When the poor little
body was dressed for the grave, it
found covered with welts and
bruises from the waist to the feet.
The story is but one of the dark aud
tales that might be told Of
the lonesome country districts within
twenty miles of the metropolis, where
brutality and low passions go un-
noticed. In the city they cannot be
hidden.
THE ESCAPE or BOSS TWEED
Has been a nine days wonder,
and is almost forgotten. 1t was no
escape at all-his prison doors were
opened by the officials whose duty it
to keep him in custody, and be
of. He could have gone
any time the last three years-he
when be did, doubtless by the
Of his lawyers. The prosecu-
tions the city was pressing against
him were closing about him-the
most important were to come on 10 q
few days, and the Boss. realizing that
be had no hope. walked out through
the door be had always kept open,
and vanished The Democratic sher-
III and his assistants are responsible
for his escape, and Gov. Tilden will
be forced TO bold them to an account.
But as they have all been doubtless
paid heavily, little Dc they care.
Ever since the great chief has
been in Ludlow street Jail, be has
been permitted to go out whenever
he choose, with a deputy or two, and
he has lived more of the time at his
home on Madison avenue, and the
uptown hotels, than be has been in
his prison quarters. When his time
come to run, be went out as usual,
with two deputies-be went in a car
rage to his house-tbe deputies stay
ed in the carriage in the most accom-
modating way, till-be didn't return.
Then these innocent fellows, after
waiting two hours aud s~earchiog the
house which they knew be was not
in, which consumed another hour
raised the alarm. In the meantime,
a steam yacht was lying in the East
River, coaled and provisioned.
Doubtless the Boss walked through
his own house into the street beyond,
got into a carriage in waiting, was
driven to this yacht and in three
hours was decently out on the bosom
of the ocean. Or, be had plenty OF
time TO get into secar hiding in the
CITY. from which be a take his de-
parture at his convenience. The po-
lice demonstrate once more their in
eff cheney or corruption, by finding no
trace Of him-the sherif's officials are
even worse-one-half the Democra.
cy grin with ill-concealed delight a,
their chiefs escape, and the others
are vexed as they think of the politi-
cal capital this escape furnishes
against them.
i predict that the Boss will never
be taken. Those who assisted in bis
escape don't want him to come bacl
to claim any of the property they
have got their claws upon. The
miserable old man is abroad by THU
time, and he will probably stay there
till he dies-tbe companion of Sweeny
Connolly and Genet, his accomplices
Would that some Of the present off
Gals would 60 and do likewise, be
fore they have quite bankrupted TIM
city.
1t is said, that David Dudley Field
lawyer of the Boss, advised his fight
The bondsmen of the sheriff are shiv
ering in their shoes, for the city vii
at onc proceed against them. Con
ner expects, of course, to be removed
BUSINESS
is dullness itself, aud the weather i
fearful.
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