Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-16
MRS. JEXKS AND JOHN SIEER-
MAN.
from the Cumberland Alleganian.l

from the Cumberland Alleganian.
Mrs. jerks name, previous to her mar
riage, was Murdock. and she has half
brother now residing in this county, who
was Captain in one of the Maryland reg
iments in the late war. His mother was
married in Scotland, where she gave birth
to the son. Her husband left Scotland for
America, and after some six years she OBJ
tanned . divorce, married an English ex-
army officer. and moved to Wales. She
and her husband visited this country some
years after, and had an interview with her
former husband. resulting in surrendering
the boy to his father. The Murdoch fam
ily lived some time in Baltimore. and re-
moved thence to New Orleans, where Mr..
Murdoek Joined the Confederate navy in
the breaking ont Of the war in 1861, and
afterward fell from a gunboat i'll the Mis-
sissippi river and was drowned.
IFrom the New Orleans Democrat.l
Christian Reid in one OF her books makes
n burglar require of his accomplice, with
whom he had left the whole Of their plum
der. a note Of hand Of his moiety OF it.
This looks like an absurdity, for no such
note could be sued on or collected in court.
But what lever that note Of hand was,
regarded as confession OF guilt, to compel
fair play from an accomplice That WAS
precisely the s.fects Mrs. jerks sought to
give the Sherman letter, and in endeayor-
ing to do so she was not guilty of black
mailing" Honor among thieves" is as
old and venerable maxim as any the law
Laws down, and Mrs. jerks merely sought,
in holding that letter Of Sherman's over
his head, to enforce a compliance with it.
From the Hartford Timcs.l
1t now turns ont that jerks and his in
tercsting wife are to be provided with Off
ces in Washington. so that they need not
go back TO New Orleans, AZ they will be in
dicted for perjury IL they do go back. This
arrangement IL cminently characteristic OF
John Sherman--who had Mrs. jerks pri-
vately in training before she testified. In
his letter to the Feliciana Supervisors he
promised them, as the reward Of fraud, If
they would only carry il through, that they
should be 81 provided for that they could
quit Louisiana for a safer residence else
where.
From The Memphis Appeal
All the water in the world would not
wash away the guilt o. John Sherman in
regard TO the theft of the votes OF the peo-
Pile Of Louisiana. The testimony Of Il. l..
Weber, State Senator from the once
PROSTATE State, and a Republican who
Knows WneTcot me S)cahs. Is touciusifc oh
that head. And this, let il be remembered
il the testimony Of one of John Sherman's
witnesses n man on whom the chief OF the
rogues who robbed the States relied upon
to sustain Mrs. jerks and counteract the
Anderson influence. The mills OF the gods
do grind fine.
tFrom the Havrc Republican,
1t matters but little what John Sher-
m, n, Stanley Matthews, General Noyes,
Weber, Anderson, Mrs. jerks, Dennis,
Pitkin, McLis or others, Of either side,
may now say the actions, declarations,
verbal and written promises, the letters
and cards OF sherman, Matthews, Hayes,
Anderson and others furnish not only con-
current but conclusive testimony that
corrupt bargain was fully contaminated,
and the blood money paid over.
fFrom the Omaha Herald.l
John Sherman is about as badly used
up man as the Republican leadership has
produced since the smiling and sanity
Cslfax ayue IN grief