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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-18
A Curious Crime.

A most singular revelation has been
brought about by the demolition of an
old house in the Rue Galere, Brest.
Thanks to little sandal-wood Golfer fill
ed with papers, which the picks of the
workmen uncovered, hidden behind
loose stone in the chimney, the
victim of long forgotten assassination
has been discovered to have been the last
descendant of King.
In May, 1850, an old woman named
Benoit, who lived in this house, with a
number of other people equally poor like
herself was found dead in front OF the
fire place above mentioned. She was in
her night-dress, and, from the appear
ance of the room, had been violently
dragged from the bed, and had struggled
hard previous to expiring.
HER SKULL WAS BEATEN IN,
evidently with blows from bludgeon
delivered with terrible violence. The
room was horribly wrecked, as if the
murderer, crazed by blood and blinded
by rage, had experienced spite against
the very walls. Two empty brandy bot
ties and glasses on the single window
ledge suggested that the crime had fol-
lowed a debauch.
A blind beggar, known as Papa Mare
chal, with whom the dead woman had
lived, was missing. He was said to have
been in the house the night before. The
police sought but found him not. At last
an officer came upon his dog, playing with
some other cur on a quay. He watched
and followed the animal to house in the
suburbs. Papa Marechal was verbally
there, and was at once arrested
The blind assassin, for such he was,
made no attempt to deny his guilt. He had
long lived On bad terms with Nine. Benoit.
Her extravaganza expenditure of the fruits
of his mendicancy was the cause. On the
night of the murder both had been
drunk. She went to bed first, and he sat
before the fire drinking. From time to
time from the bed she greeted him with
taunts, curses and foul language. At
last, goaded beyond endurance, he CROPPED
his way to the bed and dragged her out.
She was powerful woman, and made a
good fight of it; but he overcame her at
last, and beat out her brains with his
heavy staff. Having satisfied himself
that she was dead, he fled
Popa Marechal was sent to hospital
under surveillanc and died there. The
crime was forgotten. Then came the re-
velation made by the box of papers,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-18
Growing Old Gracefully.

Softly, oh! softly, the years have swept by
thee,
Touching thee lightly with tenderest care;
Sorrow and care did they often bring nigh
thee
Yet they have left thee but beauty to wear.
Growing old gracefully,
Gracefully fair.
Far from the storms that are washing the
Ocean,
Nearer each day to the pleasant home light;
Far from the waves that arc big with COM
motion,
Under full sail ana the harbor in sight!
Growing cheerfully,
Cheerful and bright.
Past all the winds that were adverse and chill
Past ali the islands that lured thee forest;
Past all the currents that wooed thee unWill-
ing,
Far from the port of the land of the blest.
Growing old peacefully:
Peacefully and best
Never feeling of envy or sorrow,
Where the bright face of children are seen;
Never a wear from their youth wouldst thou
borrow,
Thou dost remember what lieth between.
Growing old willingly;
Gladly, ween!
Rich in experience that angles might covet;
Lich in fate that has grown in thy years;
Rich in thel love that grew from and above it;
Soothing thy sorrows and hushing thy fears.
Growing old wealthy;
Loving and dear.
Hearts at the sound Of thy coming are light
encd.
Ready and willing thy hand to relieve;
Many face at thy kind words has bright
encd
at is more blessed to give than receive"
Growing old happily;
Blest, we believe.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-18

puruleut n. Latter, and in three months the
body is mass of sores. The face is de-
stroyed, blindness sets in, and the mouth
and lips become contracted, so that the
sufferer-they are all French Canadians
cannot receive the holy sacrament in
his dying hours. Toward the end the
disease, after doing its deadly worl- IN
ternally, lodges in the throat, the symp-
toms resembling those or accute asthma.
The patient cannot rest; he smothers.
Lifting himself from the pallet, and in
tones no longer like those of the human
voice, he pleads for more air. Father
Guillemin, lately in charge of the lazaret
to, in describing the death scene, writes !:
Imagine the expiring leper making
spasmodic movements as he turns and
twists himself in vain to catch a deeper
breath of air. Horrible contortions fol-
low. Now he rushes-that is, if his
weakness permit-.toward the open win
dow; now he points supplicatingly to the
door Hear his furious yells, his lalnen-
tations. MS CRIES Of despair, his groans
%, God have mercy on me! have mercy !
have mercyn At last with JOY, yea, with
ISdlo VI .JCJ i1clll llio Nla1 hCuto
orbs, he halls the grim deliverer. There
is brief struggle, final wall of agony;
he chokes and another Lazarus NAV have
been taken to Abraham's BOSOM"
Something over l5 per cent. of the pa
tients recover, but the disease leaves the
survivors weak and crippled for life,
Early in 1868 the nuns of the Hotel Dieu
Montreal, took charge Of the pest-house,
and the Trappist monastery at Dorches
ter, N. B., also sends volunteers. Volun-
tcering for this service requires even a
nobler heroism than entering for for
lorn hope. Two nuns have succumbed to
the disease, and many have been ruined
in health. Every year medical officer
appointed by the Government inspects
the lazaretto, of which Pere Ferdinand
Gauvreau is the respected almoner. All
that human skill can do is done to relieve
the agony of the inmates. To stamp out
the plague is said to be impossible, at
least in this generation. -lMiramichi
(N. b. Cor. N. Y. World..
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-18
The ForeshadowIng,

Some thought flies, day by day,
vi coming rest,
AS birds that far away
Seek their true nest.
tbs but feeling, vet
1t sounds within,
That all sad hours will set
And JOY begin.
We know how much we feel
Wearied, yet sure
mat all pain can reveal
Returns no more:
That, like journey done,
The tired feet
Shall, with the fading sun,
Find rest complete.
We toll on, day by day,
For others good,
10 find ourselves astray,
Misunderstood;
And still the thankless task
Goes on each hour,
And all that we can ask
Is grace and power.
Grace to contend with wrong,
And power to toll;
70 lift, when worn song
Above the soil;
And when our earthward gaze
Sees rocks and scars,
Cur upward glance we raise
To worlds of stars.
And oft the good we do
For others here
Is ever kept in view
And held most dear.
The after-time shall show
Its fruit to thee,
Whose faith and love could throw
Bread on the sea.
And music in the soul
Sings soft and low,
That, under times control.
Alltroubles go;
That here where shadows fall
Towards darkest night,
That there the voices call
To cloudless light.
u
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-18

White Cakes.-One cup of butter, two
cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk,
whites of five eggs, three cups of -four,
two teaspoons cream tartar, one tea
spoon soda.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND
CONSTABLES,

i6. There shall be the following number of
justices or the Peace and Constables for Gar
rett county, viz: for election district number
one, two Justices of the Peace and one Con-
stable; for election district number two. two
Justices of the Peace and one Constable. for
election district number three, two Justices
of the Peace and one Constable; for election
district number four, one Justice of the Peace
and one Constable; for election district num-
Der five, two Justices of the Peace and one
Constable; for election district number six
two Justices of the Peace and one Constable.
for election district number seven two Jus
tlces OF the Peace and two Constables. for
election district number eight, two Justices
of the Peace and one Constable; for election
district number nine, one Justice of the Peace
and Constable.
AZ. Every Constable in Garrett county shall
receive in addition to the fifty cents allowed
by law for the delivery to the sheriff any
person on commitment, six and a quarter
cents per mile for every mile he may have to
travel in the performance of said duty, over
four miles.
Is. Every Constable who may find it neces-
sary to SU -nmon any person to assist him in
taking to Jail any person on commitment
shall summon Constable, if one be convent
emit and such Constable or other person sum
moned for that purpose, shall be entitled to
the fees and mileage aforesaid.
40 1t shall not be lawful for any resident of
Garrett county to be sued before any Justice
OF the Peace of said county, out of the election
dis riot in which the defendant resides; this
provision, however, shall not affect any suit
heretofore brought or now pending.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30
SALES BY AUCTION.

IS. No person shall vend at auction any
goods, wares or merchandise of any kind or
description whatever, within the limits of
said county, unless he shall first pay to the
Clerk Of the Circuit Court for said county the
sum of sixty dollars per year for such privi.
lege, to be applied to the use of the State and
paid into the treasury, and no such license
shall be issued for a shorter period than one
month.
50. The provisions of the aforegoing section
shall apply only to such person as shall bring
goods, wares and merchandise into said coun-
ty to sell at auction within the limits afore-
said, and to such persons as shall sell at auc-
ton goods wares or merchandise sent into
the county for the express purpose of being
sold as aforesaid by auction.
60. Any person who shall sell as aforesaid
within the limits aforesaid without having
previously paid the license herein directed,
shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred
dollars upon conviction thereof in any court
oflaw.
81 The Clerk of the Circuit Court shall be
entitled to the same fees and commissions for
issuing the license and paying into the treas
ury the money therefor, as for like Licences
under the laws OF this State,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30
ORPHANS COURT.

IS. The Judges of the Orphans Court for
Garrett county shall be allowed per diem of
two dollars, and at the rate of twelve and one
half cents per mile for every mile lover and
above five) they shall travel coming from
their place of residence to Oak land but such
mileage shall be allowed only in one direc-
ton, and once each term.
56. The Register of Wills in said county at
eoch meeting of the Court, shall make a
memorandum on the minutes of the Court OF
the number of miles travelled by each Judge,
and the County Commissioners shall levy
therefor accordingly.
q. The County Commissioners shall annu-
ally levy o sufficient sum to enable the Col
lector to pay the per diem and mileage OF
Judges OF the Orphans Court upon the pas
sage of their accounts by said County Com
missioners.
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oakland they shall receive an additional
sum of twelve and one-half cents for each
mlle over nve miles, TO be allowed only in one
43. The County Commissioners shall AMIN.
ally levy such sum of money as they NAV
deem SUFFICIENT to pay the jurors of the coun-
" lor the ensuing year, to be paid over to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court who shall annuaIIv
account with said Commissioners therefor.
and shall give bond, with securities to be an,
proved by SAID commissioners, for the faith
said.
"A. Any surplus that may remain in the
hands of said Clerk shall be a Contingent
fund for paying said jurors.
40. The County Commissioners shall allow
said Clerk such compensation as thew NAV
deem reasonable for said services.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30

Within fifteen days after he receives
the copy of the levy as hereinbefore
provided for, deliver to each taxpayer
his tax bill.
l22. r. any tax payer should fail to
pay his taxes within'siXty days after
the collector oFtahes' has delivered to
him his tax bib, shenP the said cOllec-
tor is hereby eInpoweSetfand author
lied to distrain for sssbtp taxes in the
same manner, land witss the same
costs that collectors Of county taxes
are authorized to distrain for taxes.
123. The collector Of taxes shall
give bond with security to be APP
proved by the Burgess and Commits
sioners, in the penalty of one thous-
and dollars, conditioned for the.
faithful discharge of his duties, ana
said bond shall be recorded in the
office of the clerk of the Circuit Court
for Garrett county.
124. The collector of taxes shall re-
port in writing to the Burgess and
Commissioners, at every regular
meeting held by them, the amount
of taxes collected by him since the
last meeting of said Burgess anG
Commissioners, together with the
names Of the persons from whom
collections have been made, and the
amount collected from each, and said
report shall be recorded by the town
clerk, and the said collector shall, at
the time he makes his report as
aforesaid. pay over to the treasurer
the amount collected by him, less his
commission, which shall be ten per
cent of the amount collected.
125 1t shall be the duty of the town
clerk to be present at all the meetings
of the Burgess and Commissioners.
He shall keep correct record of
their proceedings and an accurate ac-
count of ali their financial transact
lions. He shall enter all ordinances
passed by the Burgess and Commits
sioners, and signed by the Burgess,
in book kept by him for that pur-
pose, and the books of said corpora
ton shall be open for the inspection
of any tax payer at all times, and
copies of all ordinances shall be put
up in the most public places of said
town. The said town clerk shall re-
ceive twenty five dollars per annum
for his services.
126. 1t shall be the duty of the COL
lect0r, AS town constable, to preserve
the peace and quiet of the town, and
for that purpose he is hereby inves-
ted with all the powers of a constable
within said town. He shall perform
such other duties as may be required
of him by the Burgess and Commits
si0ners, and shall receive such com
pensatiOn as the Burgess and Com
missioners may deem right and
| proper.
127. Ifa vacancy should occur in
the Office of collector of taxes or town
clerk by death, resignation, removal
Or otherwise, the Burgess and Com
missioners may make an appoint
ment to supply such vacancy.
128. Should the Bailiff arrest any
person for violating any ordinance
passed by the Burgess and Commits
sioners, he shall carry such offender
before any Justice Of the Peace in
said town, and it shall be the duty of
such Justice to hear and determine
the charge against such person in ac-
cOrdance with the ordinances of said
corporation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30

63. The Sheriff of Garrett county shall be
entitled to receive the following fees for per-
forming the duties of his office, viz; For
boarding each prisoner committed to the
county Jail, forty cents per day for serving
writ and return, sixty cents for taking bail
bond, one dollar; for empanelling Jury, three
dollars; for serving scire facias, including
person summoned, sixty cents; for serving
subpoena and return, sixty cents; for sum-
inoning appraisers to value goods and chat
tells taken by attachment, Il ia or replevin,
each person summoned, sixty cents; for each
person summoned as a witness in any case or
inquisition, sixty cents; for laying attach
ment in hand of garnishee, each person gar
nished, sixty cents for serving an execution,
twenty f1ve cents; for each prisoner commit
ted to Jail, fifty cents; for each prisoner
brought out before the court and returned to
jail, fifty cents; ard for taking prisoners TO
the penitentiary. the following sums of
money, viz: When a single convict is taken,
forty dollars: when two together, thirty dol
lars each; when more than two, twenty dol
lars each, to be levied as other county charges
81. He shall receive ten per centum for COL
Letting and paying over officers fees.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30
WILD ANIMALS.

129. Any citizen of the State who
shall kill or destroy any wolf, pam
Their, wild cat or fox. within the limits
of Garrest county; shall be entitled
to the following allowance, viz: For
every wOlfscalp the sum of twenty
dollars; for every panther scalp the
sum of twenty dollars for every
wild cat scalp the sum of two dol
lars, and for every fox scalp the sum
of one dollar.
shall be necessary for the person kill
ing such animals, to produce the
head of the same before some Justice
of the Peace for said county, and at
the same time make oath that the
said animal was taken and killed
within the limits of Garrett county
within fifteen days before the pro-
duction of the head before the JUS
tice, and said Justice shall thereupon
give the person producing the same
a certificate that such head was pro-
duuced before him, wherein he shall
set forth the above mentioned oath
and it shall also be the duty of the
Justice to destroy such head, to pre-
vent any second allowance for the
same.
131. Upon the production of such
certificate, the County Commission
ers of Garrett county shall levy upon
the assessable property of the county
the aforesaid allowance for the use of
the person producing the same, and
the county collector shall collect and
pay the same accordingly.
WITNESSES.
1872. Witnesses in Garrett county
who shall reside more than three
miles from the place of holding the
Circuit Court, shall in addition to the
per diem allowed by law, receive six
and one quarter cents per mile for
every mile exceeding the first three,
to be allowed in going to the court /;
but no witness shall be allowed mile
age more than once going to said
court in any one term.
1873. The County Commissioners
shall levy annually a sufficient sum
in advance to pay the States wit
nesses for said county, and the same
shall be placed in the hands OF the
Clerk to pay said witnesses at the
time of their discharge.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted that all
acts or parts of acts inconsistent with
this act be and are hereby rep' aled.
3. And be it enacted that this Act
shall take effect from the date of its
passage, but insofar as the same
changes or affects the compensation
of officers holding Office in said coun-
ty unGer the constitution and laws Of
this State, this Act shall have no
operation upon such compensation
until the end of the term of the pres
eni incumbents of said office.
We hereby certify that the aforegong is a
correct copy of an Act of Assembly passed
January Session, 1878. Approved March 10Th
1873.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
mh3O-tS Secretary Of the Senate,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30
SHEEP.

g. Ifany dog shall be seen running shSep
In said county, any person may kill him or
ifany dog shall have been known to worry
sheep, and Information thereof being given
TO the owner thereof, If he does not kill said
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-30
STOCK FOUND TRESPAssING.

65. No person other than bona tide resident
of Garrett county shall drive, or cause to be
driven upon, or permit any horses, hogs,
sheep or black cattle, to enter any of the lands
of any citizen of Garrett county, whether
said lands be enclosed or not, without the
permission or license of such owner.
Sc. If any such horses hogs, sheep or black
cattle shall at any time bs found running at
large upon the land of any person within the
limits aforesaid, the owner of the land, his
agent, tenant or overseer may consider them
as trespassing, and may destrain them by
lmpounding in an enclosure, and 1t shall be
the duty of the person making such distress
to deliver, on oath, over his own name and
under date. a description in writing of the
horses, hogs, sheep or black cattle deStTained,
with their natural and artificial marks with
in five days after making the DISTRESS, to
some Justice of the Peace, who shall reside
nearest the place where the distress has been
made, and the Justice shall file the same
among the papers of his office, and give a
copy thereof, under his own signature, to the
person making the distress, and such person
may sell the said horses, hogs, sheep or black
cattle, or so many thereof as may be neces-
sary to pay the sum of two dollars on each
and every head for each days trespassing as
aforesaid.
81. The person making the distress and SELL
ing as aforesaid, shall. before making such
sale, give notice of the time and place thereof
by public advertisement, set up at three or
more public places in the neighborhood
where such trespass was made, and setting
forth in such advertisement the certified
copy of the Justice OF the peace, giving the
natural Id artificial marks of said horses,
hogs, sheep or black cattle.
IS. Any person owning or having partial
ownershipin said horses, hogs, sheep or black
cattle may redeem the same at any time be-
fore the sale thereof by paying the damages
aforesaid and all costs.
SO. Any person making sale under the
provisions of the aforegoing sections shall
return to n justice of the Peace of the county
a statement showing the number of horses
hogs, sheep and black cattle sold, and the
amount sold for, and after deducting the
damages and costs shall pay over the surplus
to said Justice, to be retained by him for the
use of the original owner of such horses, hogs
sheep and black cattle, and If any remain
unsold they shall be treated as estrays under
the laws of this state.
20. Ifany person residing in Garrett county
shall claim any right and ownership to any
horses, hogs, sheep or black cattle destrained
as aforesaid, he shall, before some Justice of
the Peace of the county, make oath that the
same are bona ride his property and that he
did not acquire said right to or ownership
therein for the purpose of defeating or evad-
ing the provisions of the aforegoing sections
and on his making such oath the Justice shall
certify the same under his hand and seal ard
the said owner, on presenting said certificate
to the person having made the distress, shall
be entitled to have delivered over to him the
property SO taken.