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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
THE LITTLE BREAKER BOY.

A recent article in american Homes.
entitled &c From Hold to Mine,' descrip-
tive of the process of preparing coal for
market. gives us this glimpse of the
wretched lives of the class of children
for whom it would seem there ought to
be Civil Rights bill enacted:
More stairs, and then we come to other
streams of coal shipping and sliding
down the iron-shod shoots. Again and
again it passes through the sifters, till at
last only black dust flows out upon
the ground, where it is picked up and
carried away.
The breaker is crowded with men and
boys. They sit on benches above the
drifting streams of coal, and with pa
tent eyes and grim fingers pick out every
scrap of slate that passes under them. In
the stove and nut coal small boys, mere
ten and twelve-year-oldy youngsters, sit in
dusty rows and thrust their pitiful little
paws into the sliding mass il pursuit of
the slate and stone.
Behind the rows Of little fellows that
bridge the dusty brook stands the task
master, with his brutal stick, to keep
them in order and up to their work. We
stand III the dust-laden air, and watch
the black little fellows with feelings OF
pity and indignation. Has this corpora
ton no more wit than to employ brutal
overseer with lash to urge these chill
dren up to their work. We do not
reckon on its soul. We do not imagine
that it has any worth mentioning. Has
it not even sense enough to pay these
children by the amount of slate they.
gather.
Half the wages of the Over-looker
would be a splendid prize TO keep the
boys up to their work. As it is, the
business is disgrace and shame. What
kind of citizens does Pennsylvania think
these breaker-boys will make. Better
burn slate IN half of the stoves in the
country than to drive school children to
such work, with such task-master.
Pennsylvania Wit is slow if it cannot in
vent a way of clearing the slate, except
by hands of infants under whip.
Poor little dirty faces, They are at
least fat and healthy, but but that is al.
The eyes are dull and timid, as if the
world was a sorry place for small boys.
They lean over their choking brook, and
dive into it with sort of blind pro
test, as if for them the world was all up
side down, and quite out of Joint.
Poor little fellows New England
housekeepers, in their quiet homes, COM
plain If a single slate refuses to burn in
their range, and their children are I'M
happy if their mothers ask them Just to
bring UP one hod from the cellar Goals
mean comfort and luxury to them, and
they have never thought of the little
breaker-boys who toll in choking dust
and defeaning uproar that their coal
may be clean.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
TILTON-BEECHER TRIAL.

The examination of Mr.. Beecher was re-
sumed. His testimony was chiefly in rebuttal
of the evidence of Tilton and Moulton, whose
statements of the defendants admissions of
guilt the latter fatty contradicted The ac-
counts of several of the interviews as sworn to
by Tlton and Moulton were branded by Mr.
Beecher as monstrous falsehoods. Touching
the famous letter of contrition, he denied its
composition or dictation, but admitted that it
fairly represented the substance of what was
said at the interview preceding the writing of
the letter.
Sirty-JourIs Day.
Mr.. Beecher's testimony was explanatory of
the letters that passed between Mrs. Tilton and
himself. Mr.. Fullerton called the attention of
the court to the fact that Mr.. Beecher had be-
fore him a memorandum of the questions to be
asked and his answers thereto. This was fire.
quently referred to by the witness for the pur-
pose of refreshing his memory as to dates
This unusual proceeding ON the part of a wit
ness was the subject of good deal of remark.
Si.rty-fJM Day.
The day vas spent in examining Mr.. Beech
er's letters and eliciting from the witness ex-
plantations of them. His manner was firm
and solemn, and his denials most emphatic.
Si.rty-si.rth Day.
The proceedings opened quietly and tamely.
with the resumption of the chain of evidence
from the point where it was left of the pre-
vious day. Beecher gave number of emphatic
denials to statements made by plaintiff and
one in particular, which seemed to put Tracy s
position in more favorable light than it has
been hitherto regarded. In reply to ques-
ton, Mr.. Beecher said the first intImation he
received that Gen. Tracy had been consulted in
regard to the difficulties between Tilton and
Beecher was from Frank Moulton. Witness mad
not been consulted in regard to this selection of
Nj. Tracy nor of any one else.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

A story is told by farmer at Bloom
field, Pa, which seems to indicate rea-
soning power and &, bit of the heroic ele-
ment III common rat. Two rats, an
old gray matron of the corn-crib and her
offspring, had been caught together in a
common box-trap. Through crack the
pair could be seen together within, low
ing enough, till the farm dog was
brought to the mouth of the trap. As
soon as the mother scented the dog she
seemed Immediately. to divine the APP
preaching fate, and, giving a terrible
squeal, she caught the little rat by the
neckand bit him sharply, causing instant
death. The trap was opened an instant
after. and the old rat, which had thus
killed her offspring rather than have it
murdered by the dog, quietly submitted
to her fate.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

at the open window where she could see
him, he pointed the weapon at his head
and pulled the trigger. The girl tainted
at once, without waiting to observe that
there was no discharge. The cartridge
would not explode, and Mr.. Mayer, to
his own great establishment, was yet
alive. He tried another and another,
but they would not go off. Before a
fourth effort at self-destruction could be
made, the door was burst open, and the
young man was disarmed. The cold
girl, however, is warming now, and says
she viii marry him.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

tured in Douglas county, ILL.,, who had con-
fessed, during a serious illness, the very same
story. Officers have now gone to Arkansas to
arrest him. This news reached Bloomington
recently, and so far no one has turned up who
can throw any light ON the identity or con-
nections of Moore.
The citizens of Henry county are much ex-
ercised over depredations of horse-thieves.
Miscellaneous.
THE departed Solons, who in their forgetful-
ness carried off the statute books furnished
them during the session, being stricken by the
compunctions of conscience, are returning the
property of the State to its proper custodian.
The Common Council of South Bend has
passed an ordinance for the proper observance
of Sunday. It prohibits dancing, music for
dancing, openly drinking intoxicating liquor as
beverage, and games and sports.
TIE Pulaski County Commissioners, recent
evening, met and adopted a plan for bridge
across the Tippecanoe at Winamac, in place of
the one washed away by the flood few days
ago. The site viii be quarter of a mile above
the old bridge, and the structure viii be a
single span. 16O feet in length The bridge
viii be Howe truss, and the contract will be
let in May.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
FENCING OUT 4 TRIM.

There is a farmer living near Carey
vile, Tenn, who is the champion absent
minded man. He has been very much
annoyed about his sheep lately, and it
was in seeking to get rid of this annoy
ance that he lately showed his absent
mindedness. The Knoxville and Ohio
railroad passes through his farm. and the
sheep have on several occasions ventrred
upon the track just as train was going
through, the result being startling rise
in mutton and diminution in the num-
Der of the flock. The good farmer saw
with grief this frequent occurrence, and
finally decided that he could at least cur
tail the wanderings of the sheep if they
could be kept from passing out over the
road from certain pasture. To secure
this end he conceived the happy idea of
erecting gate across the road. The
gate was built and the farmer rested con-
tent. The only fault in his plan arose
from the fact that he absent mindedly
forgot to make any provision for the
passage of trains along the road. On
the evening of the day on which the gate
was erected, the train came roaring along
as usual, going at tremendous speed.
Close upon the gate the engineer saw the
obstacle, but too late for any good. The
whistle had barely screamed clown
brakes when the locomotive struck the
farmers days work 1t rained splinters
for few moments following the smash,
and the engineer and fireman lodged,
but that was all there was of the affair.
When the farmer found his sheep out of
the field the next morning and examined
the place where the gate was, the sitra-
ton dawned upon him. He is not, as
yet, reported to have devised remedy
for his trouble with the sheep.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
GEN. SPINNER ON TOMEN'S HON.
ESTY.

ESII.
Gen. Spinner. in the course of a recent
interview, said, in answer to a question
rs to whether there had not been steal
ing in the Treasury: eyes. Recently
there has been money stolen in the
National Bank Redemption Agency.
When Graves (who is in charged found
out that he had a thief with him. he
carefully investigated, and laid traps 10
catch him. He came to me one day and
said that he had clue. 1 said, well.
what is It'll He said that he suspected
one or two women. l shook my head
and said, You are wrong. A woman
won't steal. Now, [ k ow they won't.
They have not got the perve. The rea-
son why prefer women as counters is
because they won't steal Ii they do
steal they won't take over one or two
dollars, because, as 1 said before, they
haven't the nerve. II a woman steals
any larger amount, you can make up
your mind she has pal outside who
is a man."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

Now that the pedestrian fever is at its
height, the Vermont papers are recount
ing the exploits of Joseph Ainsworth, of
Woodbury., 62 years old, who is still a
remarkable walker, and in early life
thought nething of such feats as travel
ing 53 miles in IL hours, II miles in 80
minutes, 16 miles In 2 hours, ETC., while
on one occasion he walked SO miles be-
tween breakfast and dinner.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

GENERAL SPINNER has handled over
s55, 1000, 600, COO in the fourteen years of
has official term, and the losses amount
to less than one dollar ON the million.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
THE PAST WEEK.

Our new United States Treasurer. Mr.
John c. New, is only 43 years old.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
P. T. Barnum, the great Snowman, has been
elected Mayor of Bridgeport, CT.
Miscellaneous.

The trip to Mexico of the Senatorial excur-
sion party headed by Senators Cameron and
Morton, has been abandoned, because of the
steamer Dispatch. placed at their disposal by
the government, being infected with yellow
fever.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue re-
ports a slight increase in the receipts last
month over the corresponding month in 1874.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

SAN FRANc1sco has developed the
worst spoilers yet. The whole town went
down the other night on the word "pea,"
the teacher having explained that it
meant the sliding weight on scale-bar.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

President GRANT, it is announced,
viii shortly visit his Missouri farm.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

Boss TWEED might as well make up
his mind to remain in prison the balance
of his days. A new suit has been brought
against him In the courts of New York
for over S6,OO0,O 900, and his bail set at
S3.OOO.OO0.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15
Il LIFELONG DECEPTION.

A curious case of assumption of sex
was lately discovered in Paris. A pen
stoned officer named Senkeisen, now
nearly eighty years old, fell i'll and had
to be taken to the Necker Hospital. Then
the doctor In charge discovered that the
officer belonged to the female sex. Her
secret being thus discovered, the brave
old girl gave the story of her life. Or
phaned at the age of fourteen, her grand
father, noted General, by some unex-
planned within, forced her to enlist in one
of the regiments of his division. She
advanced rapidly in the campaigns of
Germany and Spain, and was wounded
twice, and severely, at the battle of Wa
terloo. She then was admitted III the
hospitals as an officer of the second class.
In 1880 she took service again and went
to Algeria; in 1886 she obtained French
naturalization and pension. This wo-
man has glorious character to boast of,
having received letters of congratulation
on her valorous deeds from various
French Generals.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

PRoF. NKwcoalB, of the Government
Naval Observatory at Washington, has
received letter from Prof Airy, of the
Royal Observatory at Greenwich, pro-
posing that the observers of all the coun-
tries that sent out expeditions shall in
terchange all results of their observations
of the transit of Venus az soon as they
shall be obtained. 1t is believed that
such interchange viii tend to make the
general results of the entire observation
more harmonious, and that they Will
consequently be of much more benefit to
science and commerce. The proposition
has been made to all the countries that
sent out expeditions, and viii, no doubt,
be accepted. Several years will be re-.
quired to complete the computations.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

THE United States Court of Claims,
sitting at Washington, has just rendered
a very important confscated property
decision. One John Knott, of West
Virginia, sued for s11 900, that being
the proceeds of the sale of his property,
confscated during the war for alleged trea-
son and rebellion. He claimed the Presi-
dental pardon reinstated him in all his
rights of property, and, consequently, he
was entitled to the above sum. The
Court decided adversely to the claim on
the ground that, as Congress expressly
provides that no money shall be drawn
from the treasury except by appropria-
ton, consequently the President is posi-
lively excluded from any control of the
national property. The power vested in
the President TO pardon crimes does not
authorize him to restore forfeited prop
erty, and the proclamation of Dec. %,
1868, under which claimant was par
doned, does not restore confiscated prop
ertv.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

FRANK H. MAYER's attempt to Kill
himself In San Francisco failed through
NO fault of his. Defective cartridges
caused the disappointment. He loved a
girl who loved not him, and SO he want
ed to die. He bought revolver and a
box of ammunition, and engaged room
in hotel opposite the house in which
the young lady lived. Takinga pos1ton
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

The king of the Western counterfeit
ers, Pete Mccartney, has again escaped
from his captors. 1t appears that no jail,
however. secure, and no manacles, how
ever strong, can hold this modern Jack
Sheppard.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

THE effect of the whisky tax imposed
at the last session of Congress was to
strengthen the revenue receipts during
February and March, but advices from
Washington state that they are fast fall
ing down to the usual average, and, ac-
cording to present indications, will soon
fall below it. In February last the re-
ceipts were 80, OOO,O For the same
month the preceding year they were
$1,000, 900. In the last month of the
year just closed they were about IS, 5OO,-
OO0-an increase of 100000 over the
corresponding period during the previous
year. Taken altogether, the whisky oper-
ators have made good thing, financially,
by the results of the new law, but the
Commissioner thinks that the govern
ment VIII also be benefited by the addi-
tional tax, and get, on the whole, a slight
increase of revenue.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

A London gentlewoman, after burying
six husbands, found gentleman hardy
enough to make her wife once more.
For several months their happiness was
mutual, circumstance which seemed to
pay no great compliment to the former
partners of her bed, who, she said, dis
g,isted her with their sottishness and in
fidelity. In the view OF knowing the
real character of his amorous mate. the
gentleman began frequently to absent
himself, to return at late hours, and
when he did return to appear as if intox-
icated. AT first reproaches, afterward
menaces, were the consequences of this
conduct The gentleman persisted, and
seemed every day to become addicted to
his bottle; one evening, when she imag-
ined him dead drunk, she undersigned
leaden weight from one of the sleeves of
her gown, and, having melted it, she
approached her husband, who pretended
still to be sound asleep, in order to put it
into his ear through pipe; convinced of
her wiekedness the gentleman started up,
when, having pr cured assistance, he Sc
cured her till the morning, and conduct
ed her before magistrate, who sent her
to prison. The bodies of her six hus-
bands were dug up, and, as marks of
violence We're discernable upon each of
them, the proof of her guilt appeared so
strong Upon her trial, that she was con-
demncd and executed. To this circum-
stance we are indebted for that useful
regulation, by which no corpse can be
inferred without legal inspection.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

YUSG WING, who became voter at
Hartford, CT, at the recent election, is
probably the first Chinaman ever natu-
rallied in this country. He graduated
at Yale College III 1854, and has held
several high offices in China, being now
at the head of the Educational Commits
sion of that country.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

1T is said that there are homes enough
built in Boston for five years to come.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

2. I. BARSUM, the great Snowman,
was elected Mayor of Bridgeport, CT, ON
the Republican ticket, and John Robin
son, the other great Snowman, was ON the
Republican ticket for the same office in
Cincinnati, but failed to get votes enough
TO elect him.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

IDgersolrs majority over all, for Governor Of
is about 800.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

THE first case III New York city under
the Compulsory Education act was
brought TO notice ON Wednesday last
Two children, whose parents refused to
send them to school, were taken IL Gus
tody and committed to the Charity Com
mission.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-15

SOME four years ago man came to a hotel at
Bloomington Monroe county, and asked to stay
over night, saying he had no money but
would have plenty il the morning that i've had
been chased by doubtful-looking persons, and
had left the money-s1, 7oO-with the station
agent In the morning he got his money and
paid his bill. He had registered as John or
VIM Moore, Bloomington, H.; but the regis
ter having been burned since there is no GER
tainty as to the given name. In the morning
he met friend with whom he was to go ont
into the country, and who advised him not to
drink until he came for him. Since
that time Moore has never been seen or heard
of. A short time ago a man in Bloomington
ran away from his wife, and she revealed
the fsct that her husband had confessed
to her that he and four others had murdered
Moore in saloon the day he was last seen.
She gave their names, and three of the party
were at once arrested, and fourth was cap
The daily gazette., 1875-03-17

EM0VAL.-P. II, FLINN has removed
III from he Fourth street Market TO tn
New Maj .st. Third and King streets. stalls
~ and 30. where be hopes to supply. his eus-
hopes to be the recipient of many more from
aRenerous nublc.. nOv25d&w
The daily gazette., 1875-03-17
An Anecdote from Lincoln.

The following anecdote of Abraham
Lincoln and how he obtained means to
stump Illinois against Stephen A.
Douglas is given by the Pittsburg (Pa. }
Commercial. which says that its au-
thenticity is vouched for by one of
the parties concerned: In the year
1867 a Chicago firm sued another in
Rockford, ILL.,, for an infringement on
patent harvesters The trial was long
and tedious, costing the defendants
not less than $50, 900 to defend the
suit. The case was tiled in Cincin-
natl.
After several adjournments, and be-
fore the last struggle, the attorney for
the defence wrote his client letter,
saying he felt fully competent to try
the case, but that there were two law
yers he did not want against him, one
of them being A. Lincoln, of Spring.
field, ILL.,, and he desired them to write
and retain him. For one weeks SER
vices the defendant paid Lincoln$1, 800.
After he was elected President he ap-
pointed one member of the firm United
States Assessor of the Rockford dis
trict, reminding him of the law suit,
and stating that the 5 800 he received
as fee was used to stump the State of
Illinois against Stephen A. Douglas
and that that WAS what elec.
ted him to the Presidency of the Uni
ted States. Had it not been for the
money you paid mo, he said, 81 would
not have been able to have stumpcd
the State. You will please accept the
appointment as slight remuneration
for aid at that time"
The daily gazette., 1875-03-17
FancituI wedding Costumes.

At the marriage of Miss Jennie,
daughter of Bishop Littlejohn, in
BROOKLYN, recently, IL worry pretty con
cert was artistically carried out in tho
dresses of tho four bridesmaids, the
simple suggestion of which may throw
timely hint to some of the brides
that are to he. The dresses were of
tieecy, white texture, and garlanded
respectively with apple blossoms, roses
autumn leaves and wintcrgreen, with
berries of holly, to represent the four
seasons. The bride was attircd in white
silk and illusion, and the whole cifec
of the group SO appropriately costume
was charmingly picturesque.
The daily gazette., 1875-03-17
Fashionable Furniture.
J. e J. N. HARTMAN,
No. 40 King Streer
WILMINGTON. DEL,

@NEW We respectfully inform the citi-
zens OF Wilmington and tho sur
49, rounding country that we continue
9& to man ufacture and keep on hand at
Bur pr large and long established wsrerooms,
furniture Of every variety and style, con-
Rsung OF Mahogany. Rosew Ood and Walnut
and chamber uses,
oar assortment of Furniture 10 larger and
m"Is varied than can be found In Delaware,
anu all articles sold a,our establishment are
warranted as represented,
v;enitan Blinds of the most fashionable
oohgae on made to order and kept constantly
10 IIand. We also manufacture and CONSTANT
ssep largeasortment Of Spring, Hair.
J. ~. N. HARMAN
40 King Street.