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MARTINS FERRY.

HIS Honor, Mayor Dean, has not had
a case before him for hearing since Mon
day. Neither have there been any trials
before Justices this week. \ case of at
tnrhmcut that comes up Monday before
Squire Drrnner, is exciting considerable
interest. The particulars we will give
/ after the trial.
{ RAW winter weather Yesterday made
. business rather slack. Spring has been
sighed and prayed for enough, and ought
/ to come without more ado.
CAPT. IYGLEBRlGHT and his new col
lcctor. Fred. Ralstou, made narrow
escape from drowning Yesterday after
noon. They had gone in the wheel-house
tc repair broken bucket, and the pilot
and engineer knowing nothing Of their
presence there. started up the engine:
Fred was knocked into the water and
4 truck on the front and back of his head
bv the wheel. Captain inglebright sciz-
/ ed the shaft Of the wheel, and held on.
while he halowed Justify to the
engineer to stop the engine. For
tunatelv they were both rescued. with no
more damage being done than both re-
cciving.a very chilly bath. Fred went
home and changed his clothes, and was
again on duty at half hast five o'clock.
As idiot childof John Hardin, resid-
inc ut Glcnns Run. few miles from
Martins FERRY, by coming too near
the fire Yesterday afternoon, had her
clothes catch fire, and before assistance
could be rendered her, they were entirely
burned off. DR.. Hobcnsack went out to
attend her. 1t is likely, from the state
mcut of the messenger that she will not
survive. She is about thirteen years OF
age.
]. \. THORNTON. carpenter. employ
ed on one Of Mediil's new buildings, by
the breaking OF rung of ladder, upon
which hcwas standing, Yesterday alter
noon. fell a considerable distance to the
ground producing fracture OF the CLAW
iclr. collar boue,J severely spralnihS MS
shoulder. besides receiving numerous con-
tu.ious more or less severe. DR.. Capchart
wos called in and rendered what surGI-
cal assistance va, necessary. Inc
mans iniuric, ARE not fatal, but they
will lay him up for some time.
The Pre,byterinns have been holding
r~'.-ar.sJ meeting during the present
- P.r Grrmc.. of Cudiz we'll
pnnw Y throughout the State, has been
Iahoriro in .the church, preaching on
y.o5raslsy Tbur.dgy and Yesterday.
,.r,,,v,,rr
BRIDGEPORT AND Az -l'',
The spelling FEVER mas oe', ,.. .I-' !;
fcarfully durInE the past Two ~, We, NJ ~ III
Bridgeport, preparing Tor 'ne match
that took plac" last cveg'n IL. De
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

Tx ladies will have an opportunity
of seeing Baker and Farron at the matt
nee, to-day.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

PGANo AND ORGAN TUNING AND Re-
PAIRING, carefully and promptly attend
ed to. All work guaranteed. Leave
ordcrf mt ADAMS X Lucas
Music Store, l227 Market street.
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Atthe Closing out sale Of III.
Hartman s. CO.. No. 30, 18th
street. can be found some OF
the greatest bargains ever Of
fered I'm this city i'm the line OF
Mems and Boys Clothing and
Furnishing Goods. This Is no
humbug. as they are deter
mined to quit business, and
ANYTHING in their store can
be bought for less than aCtuai
value. mrZo
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

ACCORDING to the almanac spring be-
gins to-day. 1t is about time it was COM
mcrGlnG.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

PANTS 81 a pair; vests IS cents; coats
at anv price; everything very cheap, az
the closing out sale of H. Hartman i
Co, No. so Twelfth street.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

DURING last week four marriage
licenses were issued by the County
Clerk.
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HAVING PURCHASED ALL THE
Ill right, title and interest in and to the
West Va. stencil and seal Works, l will
continue the same AT the old stand, No. II
sixteenth street, aud respectfully solicit a
continuation OF the patronage OF all IN
need of anything in our line. Charles +.
III has charge of the works, and will eN-
ccut" all orders promptly and SatiStac-
!u:.Iy. We employ no agents or canvas
N"rs, aud all persons are hereby cautioned
against any one representing themselves
as such. JOHN II. XENELl, Proprietor
Nest Va Stencil and seal Works. OCU
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

The Lcnten season is approaching to
its end and the Easter holidays will soon
begin.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

DID YOU see those nice Spring over
coats for So each, at the closing out sale
of II. Hartman & Co. A few more left.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

THE demand for spelling books is
irightful, and the book stores are doing a
land office business.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

FERREL is forced to realize on his Dress
Good. and Carpets. You can save money
there if you want either. Corner Nam
and 10Th street.
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.,

HAVING BEEN APPOINTED ADMIN
III ISTRATOR OF the "Stat" of Caroline
Eoddc deceased, hereby notify all per
sons knowing themselves indebted to the
said estate, To settle same accounts with
m thirty days. Also all person having
claims against said estate 10 present them
for settlement CHAS. FEI'rE.
WHEELING. March I, 1875. mrlb
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

HAMILroH celebrated double-steel
seamless Corset, the best corset in the
United States, for one dollar.
j. :. RHODES X Co,
Sole agents in Wheeling, W Va.
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9 Miles from Littleton Station

On IN, Il. 4 q. X. L., with Ito acres OF inn
proved land on IL; one good orchard Of
choice truit, three good dwelling houses and
~ Their out buildings. and a VI ~ good spring
of water. ANY other description, or terms
of sale can he had by seeing owner.
Icb25.rb W. y. POSTLETHWAlT.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

HDSYCHOMANCY, OR SOIL CHARM
ING" How either sex may fnSci-
nate and gain the love and affections ui
any person they choose Instantly. This
simple. mental requirement an cUU
possess. free. bv mail, for Dc, together with
u marriage guide, Egyptian oracle, dreams
Hints 10 Ladies', Wedding Night shirt.
&c. \ queer book. Address I. WILLIAM
4 60, Publishers, IhlIa. uarIb
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

Go to l.. V Blends for your BoX-toed
Button Caters. 1875 Main street.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

DURING yesterday, $40 meals were fur
nishcd by the Soup House.
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REMNANTS of Drcs, Goods, remnants
of Muslin. remnants Of Humburgs, cheap
NJ J. :. RHODES X Co.'S.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

SOMETHING NEw.-Box-toed CATERS
made exclusively for the ladies and
children at l.. V. BLoNDs.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

MANIFESTATION of genius is what
a man calls it now when he whips his
wise.
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II. W. HUGHES,

Further references by permission: ~,
EXccllency Gilbert &. Walker, EN-Guy.
orncr OF Va; Hon. Robl. T.. Wi,hcrs, Lieut.
Gov. Of Va, and L. =. senator elect ~'Ha-
tors and Members Of Congress from 50.
RemittanccS tor tickets may be- made hy
express prepaid, poStOfficc moncy-oTt,ruu
Washington, ID. g., or by registered letter
For full particulars, Testimonials. Sc,
send for Circular. Address
HON. JAMES BARBER,
Pres't NJ. r. II. ~, Alexandria, Va.
Reliable agents wanted everywhere.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

TOMORROW is Palm Sunday-one week
from Easter
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

TRx thousand yards best new dark
Print. just opened at g..
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GOOD shirts at 80 cents each, Mt the
closing out sale of II. Hartman X Go,
Undershirts and drawers very cheap.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

ALL the leading makes of Bieach"1
and Brown Muslins at New York Pr''''
J. 5. RHODES * Go.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

For great bargains attend the Dry
Goods and Carpet Store this week Of
j. w. FERREL,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

The only place in the city that you
can find Childrcn's Box toed Button
Caters is at l.. V. BLoND'S,
1875 Main street.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

MUNICIPAL CoURT-Judge Cram"'er'
This Court met at ten o'clock yesterday
morning. 49,, Do
The bond of D c. List as General Re
ceiver was received and approved.
A chancery order was entered IN the
case of ID. O'C. Quinlan Us. X. V. Whe-
Ian A.
An order of revivor substituting the
name of Angelina p. Fink, AS admins
tratrix in the case OF c. l.. Zane rs. Inc
odore Fink WAS entered,
Court adjourned until Monday morn
ing at ten o'clock.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

PERHAPS the speculative hen, will ye'
give us Easter eggs at reasonable rates
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

\ LARGE lot of best makes Black
silk. with Cashmere finish, at greatly re-
duced prices, just received at
j. ). RHODES y Co.'S.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

FoR Alpacas, Mohares, and Cashmeres
-. 90 10 J. W. FERREL's.
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GONERNoR's OFFICE, RICHMOND, Juy

II affords me pleasure 10 say that aIU
well acquainted with n large majority "i
the officers of the Montpelier Female liu
name Association, who reside In the y.
entity of my home, and | attest their ia
tclligcnCe and their worth and high rrru-
tatiOn rs gentlemen, AS well rs the pub
lie confidence, influence and substantial
means literally represented among them
JAMES l.. kEMPER, Gov. Virginia.
ALEXANDRIA, VA, JulyS, 1874 ]
commend them rs gents Of honor and b.
tcgrity, and fully entitled 10 the confidence
OF the public
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III " II' Z NJ T 7 1872
EDWIN w. BRYANT, Actuary,

For Music, Music Books, Pianos, Or
gans, Stools and Covers, go to Adam "
Lucas Music Store, 1927 Market street.
They make Il speciality of these articles
and sell at the lowest prices and on the
most accommodating terms.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

CALL if YOU want Il Carpet. They
must be- sold now at some price.
j. w. FERREi.
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TEA HOUSE.

Ia the Trade that donot Constantly keep
in stock, and have placed them AT prices
that can never be reached by any House
outside of New York.
mrlU CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON.
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Cleveland & Pittsburgh R. R

CONDENSED IIME CARD.
il.S n
IN AND AFTER NOV. 10, 1874, TRAINS
I viii run Daily, except Sunday as fol-
lows. VIZ:
.ACCoM'o MAIL. EMPRESS.
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FEnnEL.i, determined to close out hi.
took
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Index 10 New Advertisements.

Woven Wire Mattresses-G. Mendel,
Booth X Co.
English Luthern Church.
Disciples Church.
Closing Out Sale-[Head of Local.
No Cure, No Pay,
For Rcnt-Dwelling.
Show Cases-A. r. Morehead n Go.
For Rent-Dwelling.
Letter List.
Grand Organ Concerts.
Hamilton Opera House.
\ DRUNKEN spell, some people call it.
THE spelling mania has crushed the
spring poets.
The choir of st. Matthews Church, are
preparing sonc fine music for Easter.
PERHAPS the speculative hen, will ye'
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

TIE National Business College of
Wheeling, prepares young men Tor a
successful start in life.
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LADIES of Belluirc, Bridgeport, and
Martins Ferry, protect yourselves by Sc
curing your proportion of the great bar
gains in Carpets and Dry Goods, in the
great forced closing out at halt price of
the entire stock of
j. W. FERREL,
Cor. Main and Both Stsr
Centre Wheeling.
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No 2.No mo s No 10

Nos. ~ and run daily; No. daily eN-
ccpt sunday; No. /, daily except saturdays
East bound trains make direct connGc-
lions ri Baltimore with trains FOR rnlla-
de!phia, New York and Boston. Al wash
lngtou city for all points south.
West bound trains make direct connec-
non, for all points West and Northwest.
Pullman Palace Cars on all night trains.
THEELING PITTSB URGH AND BAL
- TIIDRE DIVISION.
&1EAST-LEANES. WtSr-LEANES'
Wheeling washington Ia
daily ntB;l5 AN. daily at......6:iOA \. NJ.
wheeling Washington, Pa,
daily NJ. 2;5JP. NJ. daily at......2:lOP p. NJ
sundays excepted. sundays excepted.
Tickets to ali principal points can De
procured al the Office AT inc DIpoIn;
THOS. K. SHARP,
Master of Transportation.
L. Il. DEVRIES, General Agent, Wheel
nOVl6
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THE COURTS.

COUNTY CouRT-Jpdgc Coehra".
The court met at the usual hour yes
tsrday morning. ,s,,d John
Fitzpatrick was given to the jury q . -
a,nInpr and after being out sometime, re, .
turned with verdict lor tne
assessing the damages at si9o. los
The cases of j. II. Pendleton u.s., 'H -
wharton. and James T. Good U.s. d. u
Divine, were continued. L
The case of Kimberly q Co., rs: r
Brownlee, was commenced before jury
Init was not concluded when the Court
adjourned. ,, ....n
The Court adjourned until this morn
ing at o'clock.
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Arabs, silently stole away Capt. Gull
laher marshalled his hosts we'll, but the
indOmitable Young, although seriously
wounded, never left the field of battle,
until victory perched upon his banners.
The whole affair was a success, and we
hope to see more of this kind of enter
tainment, combining as it does, pleasure
with profit.
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short POstponcmcnI--Day FNed-IuII
Distribution.
FIRST GRAND GIFT CONCERT
Montpelier Female Humane AssOt'n,
AT ALEXANDRIA, VA.
MARCH 29th. 1878.
LIST OF GIFTS.
=, IIs InSh IlIIN amounting IO.......SI,0NNV
NUMBER OF TICKE TS. 100, 900.
PRICE OF TICKETS.

The Montpelier Female Humane AsNu-
citation, chartered 10y the Legislature of
Virginia and the Circuit Court OF OrHugr
CO., proposes by "a Grand Git Concert to
establish and rudow Home for the old
lnhIm, and Destitute Ladies' Ui Nirg,uu,
at Montpelier, tn" former residence uf
President james Madison
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THE spelling mania has crushed the
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20

\ DRUNKEN spell, some people call it
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AT THE VERY LOWEST RATES. sp5
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FARM FOR SALE.
viii offer nj private sale my farm, con-
famine. near

Situated in the County of Wctzcl, State OF
". Va. on the dividing ridge between
Fish creek and Fishing creek, near the
head of Little Fishing creek, lSmi!cS from
New MartiuSVillc, the county seat OF
WtfZrI county. and
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-20
]. |. HOBBS, SON & co.

Nos. MS Main Il lll6 Water streets.
r. Butler, Jr., and W. NJ. Curtis, Active
Partners. fcb2
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-02
All Sin as a Domestic.

Is the Chinaman to be the domestic
servant of the future asks writer in
Scribner. Will another census show
him stealthily supplanting the European
in our households, and setting up his
gods on the kitchen mantels of this
Christian land9 1 stoutly believe not
The Chinese, whether miners or menials,
are hardly more numerous in the United
States than they were five years ago.
Forty centuries have been too much
for Mr.. Koopmanschoop and his immi-
grant runners. Even when the China
man comes to the States, he leaves his
wife and children behind him; he comes
here with no thought of resting until he
can rest at home; his supreme wish is
ever to return to his native land, and if
he be SO unhappy as to die in exile, his
bones at least must be borne back to
sacred soil. Surely, great element
among us is not to be built up by i'm
migration of this kind. Masses of for
eign population thus unnaturally intro
duced into the body polite, must sooner
or later disappear like the icebergs that
drift upon the currents of our temperate
seas, chilling the water all around them,
yet themselves slowly wasting away
under the influence of sun and wind,
having in themselves no source of sup,
ply, no spring of energy, no power OF
self-protection; helpless and inert amid
hostile and active forces; their only
part, endurance; their only possible
end, extinction.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-02
The BOOtblack's Story.

When a dozen newsboys and boot
blacks had collected on the custom
house stairs, and when each one had
grown tired of jaw-breakers and pop,
corn balls, "Little English remarked
"Sposen Jim Cocoanut tells us a
story"
"Sposen," remarked all the others.
"Well, gentlemen" remarked jim,
after few digs at his head, 81 will tell
you true story about a girl. Her name
was Marier, and she had yaller hair, blue
eyes, small feet, and she was worth a
million of dollars"
T." In stamps % asked Cross Eyed
Dick.
SIN clean cash, right in the savings
bank" answered Jim. This girl was an
orphan, with no one to boss her arouud,
and if she wanted to be out till eleven
o'clock at night, she could. There were
piles of fellers after her to marry her,
but she stuck up her nose at the hull
caboodle."
"What fur2" anxiously inquired Fire
cracker Tom.
"What fur2 Why, she knew they
loved her money instead of herself. She
wanted some one to love her earnestly
and like gosh. Well, one day when she
was going down to the post-office to see
if there was airy mail, runaway horse
came along. Marier tainted away and
sat down in the road, and she'd have
been broken all to pieces if it hadn't
been for bootblack bout my size. He
pulled her into a shooting gallery,
brought her to, and then hired hull
omnibus, and took her home.
"And they fell in love and were finally
married." remarked Suspender John,
son.
"No, my fellow countrymen," sadly
replied Jim; "gin him ten cents !"
"And is that all?" exclaimed three OF
four voices.
"All she gave him, and that turned
out to be counterfeit !"
There was long period of silence, and
then Cocoanut Jim continued
(which is a lesson to us never to
marry a girl worth a million dollars"
"And we never shall !" they solemnly
replied. Detroit Free Press.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-02
The Yankee Farmer and his Wife.

But if they are silent, they are not
surly; give them time and they are amia
bic enough, and they are first and last
honest. They do not ask too much for
board. and they show some slow willing
ness to act upon boarder's suggestions
for his greater comfort. But other
wise they remain unaffected by the con-
tact. They learn no greater glibness of
tongue, or liveliness of mind, Or grace
of manner if their city guests bring
with them the vices Of wine or beer at
dinner and tobacco after it, the farmers
keep themselves uncontaminated. The
only pipe you smell is that of the neigh
boring Irishman rs he passes with his
ox-team; the gypsying French Cana.
dams, as they wan der southwark tipsy
by whole families, in their rickety open
buggies, lend the sole bacchanal charm
to the prospect that it knows. These
are of a race whose indomitable light
heartedness no rigor of climate has ap-
palled, whereas our Anglo-Saxon stock
in many country neighborhoods of. New
England seems weather beaten in mind
as in face; and this may account for the
greater quick-wittedness of the women,
whose indoor life is more protected from
the inclemency of our skies. 1t is cer-
tain that they are far reader than the
men, more intelligent, gracious and
graceful, and with their able connivance
the farmer stays the adversely creeping
upon his class, if he does not retrieve its
old prosperity. In the winter his
daughters teach school, and in the sum-
mer they help their mother through her
enterprise of taking boarders. The farm
feeds them all, but from the woman S
labor comes thrice the ready money that
the land ever yields, and it is they who
keep alive the sense of all higher and
finer things, Heaven knows with what
heroic patience and devoted endeavor.
The house shines, through them, with
fresh paper and paint; year by year they
add to those comforts and meek aspira-
tions towards luxury which the summer
guest accepts so lightly when he comes,
smiling askance at the parlor-organ in
the corner, and the black walnut framed
acknowledgements on the wall.--At-
| lantic.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-02
A Singular Set.

1t is not an uncommon thing for luna
tics to be possessed of the idea that they
have been changed into some animal, as
the deg or the wolf. Out of this insane
notion there was developed, in the early
and middle ages, popular superstition
that men were often transformed into
wolves, and, like them, roamed the
forest impelled by the fercest instincts
In the fourteenth and fifteenth CEN
turies, this hullucinatisn became epi-
demic, and large numbers of persons in
France and Germany were affected by
quadrupeds, and barked, leaped, and
howled, after the manner of wolves.
They herded together in the mountain
districts, and were as destructive as the
brutes they simulated. They were call
ed werewolves, and, uniting the cum
ming of men with the ferocity of wild
beasts, were greatly to be dreaded.
The chief atrocity of which they were
guilty was the murder of little children,
on whose flesh they feasted. In 1921,
three of these were wolves were tried at
Besancon, and confessed that they had
sold themselves to the devil. One of
them admitted that he had killed boy
with his teeth and claws, but was deferred
from eating him by fear of the country
people. Another acknowledged that he
had killed young girl as she was gath
eling peas i'll a garden, and the third
that he had killed and eaten four differ
ent children. The wretched maniacs
were punished for their crimes by burn
ing at the stake.
In 1860, great numbers of these were
wolves infested the Jura, and, by their
depredations, made themselves public
scourge. Six hundred were executed on
their own confession of child murder;
aud yet the most terrible punishment
visited upon the lycanthropes scarcely
sufficed to bring the epidemic under
control.
Mr.. Latouche, late writer on Portu-
gal, mentions that, among the peasantry
of that country, the superstition of the
werewolf still prevails almost universal
ly. When sitting at the fireside of the
small land owners in rural districts, he
was often regaled with stories of the
craft with which these children of the
evil one ingratiated themselves into the
confidence of simple, trustful folks, only
TO betray them at last by stealing infants
from the cradle and devouring them in
desert places.