The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-09-05
Our xEw-yeRE LEFTER.


oug xEW-YeRE LETTER.
NEW York, September !, 1877.
TIE cuRIosIrIEs OF CRIME.
Last week a girl We,zel killed a
man named Listemann, by slashing
him with a razor while they were in
bed together. Listemann had kept
her as his mistress for six years, aud
the girl had frequently importuned
him to marry her, urging that she
was "sick Of leading a life Of shame"
She made this demand last Tuesday
night, which he refused 20 listen to /;
but, apparently pacified, retired with
him. Scarcely had he laid down
when she slipped q razor from under
her pillow, and inflicted horrible
wounds on his abdomen, from which
he died. An inquest was held, the
proceedings Of which were published
in the papers. Two days after q
similar ease occurred in Brooklyn.
A woman had lived with a man on
intimate terms, had reformed and
married. Her paramour vas brute
enough to make public the relations
that had once existed between
them. which coming to the ears OF
the husband, ended in a separation.
The enraged woman made an APP
nointment with her fcrner lover and
deliberately cut him in the abdomen
till be died. Then a day after a sim
liar tragedy was enacted at Jersey
City. and still another in 57th street,
in each case Illicit love being at the
bottom. q z the weapon, a bed the
scene. and the abdomen the wounded
place. 1t is as though every disap-
pointed. repentant woman felt called
upon to follow the example of the
first. and in the same horrible way.
The details Of these affairs are too
horrible to print. In each case death
ensued
4 CATHOLIC SCANDAL.
The little town Of Nineland, near
the city, is greatly exercised over the
development Of a transaction that
recently occurred ia the catholic
church at that place. 4 man named
Gregory, a worthless sort Of q fellow
who had more than half f5rsaken his
church, was at the point Of death.
His wife, a devout catholic, begged
the priest to shrive the dying man,
which be refused to do on the score
that he was not a good catholic, and
was not entitled TO absolutioa. Mrs.
Gregory implo1ed, and finally after
many interviews the priest did 90
and confess him and gave him abso-
luton. Priest Niver was indiscreet
enough afterward to say that be now
had means enough TO pay OF the debt
on his church, as a valuable piece of
land in Newark had been devised to
him ard Mrs. Gregory, noV that
her husband was safely through pur-
gatory, dropped hints that it had
eos. her more than she liked 10 get it
accomplished. IN inquiry was set
on foot and it was made known that
the DYING man ard his wife had
decided the SewarL property to the
priest, besides giving him St0u IN
money-in short, all they had-be-
fore be would absolve him. It has
made much feeling in fineland. and
has created a bitter feeling against
the church there.
4 SERIOUS DEMOCRATIC TROUBLE.
Congressman Adrian Muller, of the
First District in this city, had a
vacancy at West Point to fill, and to
avoid the responsibility Of making a
selection, advertised that q competi-
tive examination would be held, and
the boy making the best acreage
would be appointed. Probably Mr..
Muller would not have done this bad
be had the faintest idea Of the result,
for behold you, g "niggeF'' named
Charles 4. Minnie, came OF. ahead,
and Muller was compelled to appoint
him. There were en- hundred
applicants, bat Minnie had q clear
majority of points, and there was nc
mistake about it. There is loud
swearing among the Democracy of
the First, at the "dirthy nagur" who
had the andacity to stand Grst among
the ycph OF that district. JoI Nor
rissey is astute enough TO turn this
little draught of gall to advantage.
There is q very large negro vote in
that district, and the gallant John DO
hears Of it, than be sends his
eheque for $500 TO Minnie, with
which be may provide himself with a
q proper outfit. This is Q shrowd
1t will be a convenient thing
for John to have at bis back in future
political contests some hundreds Of
the negroes of that section, for they
are looming into political Importance
every day, and even the enmity Of
cannot keep them out. Minnie
is a very bright boy; he has been
than two-thirds educated at
home. and has done the most of it
In the examination the
maximum was an hundred, and be
stood ninety-nine and q half. He
Understands fully what is before him
at West Point. bat be is determined
10 90 through it like a man, and do
something for his race as well as
himself.
rnR GREAT TELEGRAPH CoNsoLIpA-
rION.
There is no more competition ia
.telegraphing, and the public is as
entirely at the mercy Of a monopoly I
as it was before the Atlantic and
was started to give US relief
rom the monstrous exactions of the
Western Union. With 8 healthy -,
competition rates had got down to a
point that enabled the people to use ,
he telegraph freely. A message
rom New York to Chicago oily cost
w~antv.6va rents and retaa e. r shorter