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The New York herald., 1879-02-28
GUILTY OF MURDER.
CATHARINE RICHARDs-THE CULPRIr WHOLLY
UNMovED.


cATHARINE RIcHARDs-THE cULpRIr WHOLLY
UNMovED.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
CoopERsrowN. N, Y. Feb. ~. 1879.
Counsellor Bundy on behalf Of the people con-
cluded his argument in the Buel murder trial at
half-past two this afternoon. Judge Murray occu-
pied one hour and half in his charge to the jury
and at half-past four the court cleared of
the audience. and the jury. being locked in. began
their deliberations
Toward the close of Mr.. Bundy's argument Buel.
for the first time in court changed his usual posi-
ton. He put his right hand to his face partly
ing his mouth in which attitude he remained during
the Judges charge. During portions of Bundy's
speech the spectators very demonstrative at
points made against Buel. There was no
mistaking their feeling against the pris
oner. Mr.. Bundy's illustrations with up
lifted stool in his hand, showing the position of
Buel when striking Catharine intensely dramatic
BUEL CONVICTED
AT eight o'clock the court house bell announced
that the verdict ready and there q mad rush
for admittance. The jury were out four hours. At
twenty minutes past eight they arose in court and
the prisoner faced them. They asked if the
prisoner guilty not guilty. The foreman
answered Guilty" Each was asked what was his
verdict and hrmy replied Guilty"
MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL.
Counsellor Lynes moved for new trial-frst, on
exception taken to the Judges charge in the after
noon; second. on the ground that the Court omitted
to read to the jury all the law relating to murder
and manslaughter. Judge Murray discharged the
jury and then remanded the prisoner to Jail until
eight o'clock A. NJ tomorrow, when he will hear de-
fendant's motion.
cULpKIT UNMovED.
Buel was even more calm than usual, and the
closest scrutiny failed to detect any exhibition Of
emotion on his face. He walked away to jail fol-
lowed by curious crowd. Much relief experi-
enced by those present from the fact that Buel's
parents and sisters not present when the
diet announced. one OF the jurymen states that
ballot taken till after supper, at which time
each of the charges In the indictment taken and
considered separately. The foreman then requested
any jurynan who had anything favorable to say of
the prisoner to do so. Nota man moved. ballot
then taken and verdict found. After the dis
charge of the jury one of them, young man, shed
tears profusely No expects that the motion for
trial viii be granted, and the prisoner will un-
doubleday receive sentence tomorrow.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
business when 100000 of stock shall be actually


paid in.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES.
The following committees agreed to-day to report
upon bills;--
The Judiciary Committee, who report favorably ON
Deans bill in relation to giving the city marshals in
New York city the power TO issue all sumInonses,
warrants, writs &c. in the Marine Court.
Mr. Steel's bill to prevent frauds against creditors
in matters of recording and filing mortgages.
Mr. Brooks bill for the better protection of hotels
inns and boarding house keepers.
Mr.. Smonsons bill to enable owners or ware
houses to collect their charges goods that are left
in their charge for storage.
By the Committee on Cities. who report favoraby
Mr.. Langbeins bill in relation to assessments and
unpaid taxes in New York CITY, 1t extends the time
Of payment year and reduces the rate of interest
from twelve to eight per cent.
Mr.. Strahans bill in relation to the reduction Of
salaries in New York reported for the
consideration of the House. 1t created a
great deal OF excitement in tho discussion
of its merits. Mr.. Eidman, opposed it
on the grounds that he did not believe
in the false economy of reducing the salaries of the
New York city school teachers, tireinen and police.
and that some of them poorly paid at present.
Mr.. Holahan also spoke against the bill Mr.. Stra-
han appeared i'll its favor.
The Committee Trades and Manufactures
ported for consideration of the House Sheards Cot
ton bill
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
DAMAGE TO A FISHING FLEET.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Feb. 27 1879
The Gloucester fleet which exposed to the
storm is slowly coming back to port Most of the
vessels their cables and anchors had their decks
swept and were otherwise disabled. Many had very
narrow escapes from laundering. Twenty-one out
of the sixty have come in. 1t is feared that some
have gone down. The anxiety each vessel arrives
intense. The loss Of cables and anchors thus
far reported will not fall much short of $4,000 Cap
tain James Fiers, of the Sunshine, had his leg
broken. Two Of the crew of the Flying scud were
badly injured.
Three other vessels Of the feet arrived this after
noon.
The schooner Alfred Walen was towed in by the
schooner William A. Pew which picked her up on
Georges Banks Tuesday, with loss Of rudder and
anchor.
Patrick Coughan, of the Flying Scud. had leg
broken. and Manuel Rogers sustained fracture of
rib and internal injuries, from shipped by the
schooner.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
.BOYTON AFLOAT.
YESTERDAYS ADVENTURES IN THE OHIO RIVER
AMAzEMENT OF THE VIRGINIA HUNTERS.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
Y TELEGKAPH TO THE HEHALD. ]
CooPERSroWN n. Y. Feb. 27. 1875

ABATEMENT OF THE VIRGINIA HUNTERS.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
SrEuDESviLrE, Ohio. Feb. ~ 1879.
Captain Boyton rc-cntercd the Ohio River at
twenty minutes past nine o'clock this morn
ing from wcllsville. twenty-five miles above here.
The current remarkably swift aud the shore ice
continued to make the river dangerous to large
rowboats Tho wind was blowing in a northwesterly
direction and driving tho ice against jagged lee
shore. The Captains departure was auspicious "a
the whole surrounding country population had
crowded in TO see him start. When he entered the
stream Boyton bid good by" to all and
struck out like scientific oarsman with
the cheers and God-spccd or the multitude
following him. The nrst mile made in twelve
minutes, the ocst time yet Yellow Creek was
passed at ten o'clock and Boyton was here lost to
view behind small island the Virginia side of
which the channel ran The Captain ma.
him and the mountains Of West Virginia on tho
other. A very quaint incident happened through the
simplicity of one of the hunters who inhabit tho
shores OF Virginia. After Boyton had passed Soans
village, where he serenaded by band Of
music, ho observed n long haired virginian pulling
ont ont IN skin toward him. yelling Hold on stranger;
Ill resky you on u minute" On coming up to tho
great voyagcr the backwoodsman dropped his oars
In sheer admiration, and cried "Wal II you ain the
cutcst little cuss, paddlin out here among the Ice
vtaton to take drink of Heavens own whiskcy,"
carried in bottles by all the rangers.
ARRIVAL AT srEUBEsvIILE.
After several hours of herculean work Boyton ar
rived here ut hafpast two. having been fivo hours
aud ten minutes making twenty-five miles
rent 'r'es was so swift that he was swept past
quarter of mile, and only succeeded in reaching
the shore after hard battle. skin tried 10 reach
minutes. On landing Captain Boyton was immedi-
ately driven 70 his hotel and rubbed.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
RYAN ACCEPTS MILLER's CHALLENGE.
DosroS, Feb. 90, 1879.

DosroS, Feb 26 1879.
10 THE EprTon or THE HERALD
had hoped that while Professor william Miller
was in Boston he would have accepted the proposi-
tion made directly after bout in Music Hail
which ended so unsatisfactory. had al
most abandoned hope OF meeting Mr.. Miller
In test of our relative merits in boxing.
and am pleased that he has concluded
even Mt this late day. TO accept my offer for black
ened glove contest tor $3.50 side. His suggestions
to time and place are agreeable to me, and in
answer TO his recent communication in the columns
of the HERALD permit me to say that will meet him.
MS he requests, on the 14th day OF March Vt the
Clipper oice and then and there make deposit of
the whole or any portion OF the stake money:
PADDY RYAN.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
SUICIDE by HANGING.
ley rELEcR,rH TO THE HERALD.1
ST.. THOMAS. w. l.. Feb. II. 1879

POHTSMOUTH, va, FtD. II, INIV
Last night, about ten o'clock. in the Newtown
tion of this city, Alexander winn, aged eighteen
years. committed suicide in of the outhouses Of
his mothers premises. His body discovered
suspended by rope from the rafters. He had re-.
moved his clothing, with the exception OF his under
shirt and after attaching small rope to the beam
above and fastening slip knot around his neck. had
used the shirt by placing around the rope keep
II from cutting into the flesh. His feet touch-
ing the floor. A ooroners jury this morning found
= verdict of death by suicide Young Winn was un.
usually cheerful few moments previous to his
death, and his motive IL entirely unknown.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
ANNIE BAnrELL AGAIN OFF TIL. TRACK.

Fanny Edwards is now walking alone at Brewster
Hall. Miss Bartc left the track at thirty eight min
past live o'clock yesterday evening, having COM
pleted li39 quarter miles finer appointed task. On
Wednesday night and yesterday morning she walked
with great dificulty, but about ten O'Clock she
seemed bright aud confident. By four o'clock. how
over, the lamcncss had returned and il continued
increase and distress her, until finally DIR. Sayre
ordered her withdrawal.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
PEDESTRIANISM.

John Barry, who commenced last Saturday night
at the "Grand Dukes Theatre" in Water street. to
walk 1900 one-half miles in the same number
of consecutive onequarter hours spinning
around the twenty-three-lap track last evening,
looking fresh the day he began.
Barry docs not sleep over five hours out of every
twentyfour, and says that he is not the least
fatigued. At fifteen minutes past ten O'Clock last
average time is I'm. iOs., although he frequently
the twenty three laps in ive minutes.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
MISS yoN pLuMEN's SUCCESSFUL WALK.

ALBANY. n. ", Feb. ~, ls79
Miss Elsa Won Dumcn completed the task OF walk
ing 100 miles in ~ hours, in Martins Opera House.
at quartcr-past ten O'Clock tonight. having forty
hvc minutes to spare.
w. L. Cunning CHAM, letter carrier, who attempted
walk l20 miles in twenty hours failed max
ing only 100. Miss Won Blumen completed her Tooth
mile in ION. ls., aud Cunningham his in 10 minutes
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
THE SHIP HANNA MOVED.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. !

LONG BRANCH, n j., Feb. a. 1870.
The ship Hanna has been moved about one hundred
feet north with her bow futher off shore. and she
lying at anglo of sixty degrees from the shore.
The Coast wrecking Company put an extra engine
board this afternoon. and another pump will be put
at work tomorrow. Some of the ships officers say
that the ship has already lost most of her keel
during the storm of yesterday and that the water
fills rapidly high tide they consider it doubtful if
she will be taken off and foated to New York dock,
but should another southeast or east storm come,
like that which struck her yesterday she may be left
on the Jersey shore.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
COURT HOUSE BURNED.
[pY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. !

MoNRoE Mich, Feb. ~, 1879.
Tho Monroe County Court House. one Of the finest
in the State of Michigan erected in 1s40 at
q cost of $4,000, was destroyed by fre this
evening. The records and valuable papers IN
the county Offices were mostly saved; insurance on
building, $10.OVO in Western companies. defective
hme In the Judge of Probates Office Is supposed 10
have caused the nre. The Sheriff John j. Ellis, was
seriously injured by falling cornico.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28

The steamship Partha, of the Cunard line arrived
off Sandy Hook late last night. having board
Rowell, the English pedestrian, who is to compete
with OLeary in a six days walk. beginning on the
10th Of March.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
ICE BOATING AT PoUGHKEEPsIE.

PoUGHKEEPsIE. n. Y. Feb. 81, 1879.
AT a special meeting of the Poughkeepse Ice Boat
Club to-day resolutions were passed challenging the
New Hamburg Boat Club to sail for the ice yacht
challenge pennant of America.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
BOATING CHALLENGE.

HALIFAX, Eco. II, 1HIV
Warren Smith has sent challenge to Evan Morris,
of Pitsburg. for a scung for $500 side, to he
rowed on Bedford Basin June next.
The New York herald., 1879-02-28
VAN NESS srILL WALKING.
ARRIVAL OF HOWELL.

Van Ness, at ono O'Clock this morning. completed
his l,53sth half mile. He in good condition.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

in two miles of this water are certainly 15O
caves, and probably more, each marked by
rows of stones laid in the form of cross.
Scores of men famished for water
have expended their last breath it reaching
Tinajas, only to find the lower tanks dry,
and, ignorant of the upper ones, have lain
down In despair to die. The remains have
been buried by late travellers, and the graves;
marked, Mexican fashion, by cross OF
stones. During the rush to the gold fields
of California, cholera attacked travellers on
the road from Mexico as it did American
immigrants along the Platte; pestilence COM
bined with thirst to produce corpses at
Tinajas. Recollections of bleached bones
and grinning skulls protect the game, from
Papago arrows and fint-locks After passing
through its usual fermentation the water be-
comes clear and pure as any in the world; it
comes from the clouds only, and, flowing
into the tanks over insoluble granite, it car
ries no mineral matter. Every heavy rain
pours whirlwind torrent through the tanks,
washing them out to the very bottom; no
organic matter stays behind. The number
and variety of birds here is marvellous, many
of them appearing to be of new and unde-
scribed species. At morning and evening
the din of their song, confined by the sides
of the mountains, is almost deafening. All
around Tinajas is the remarkable vegetation
of the desert; near its tanks are many curl
GUS plants nourished by their moisture.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

You are but reviewing the action of court,
to ascertain whether their judgment was cor
rect OF not, in view of all the light you have
upon these transactions.
Nor is this at all an unusual thing; for
there is not an appellate court in the land
which is not constantly reviewing the pro-
ceedings that have taken place in some court
below, where judges who are supposed to be
entirely free from partiality and from preiu
dice, have yielded to influences
one kind or another, and where
the appellate courts have been COM
PEELED to set aside their judgments,
either because they have been unable from
pref JUDGE or Partially or bias to render q
orrect judgment, or because they have made
mistake, without impairing, in the slightest
egree, confidence in the integrity and honor
the judge and court below. And want
sfdistinctly understood that 7 do not mean
one word which ] have said to impute to
he court-martial, or to the Judge advocate
general who conducted this case, any want of
honor or integrity, or to cast any imputation
upon their motives or conduct in the course
of the trial. sars il, -
My whole effort has been to show that
they have been misled, and have fallen into
these errors chiefly by reason of the testi-
mony which was adduced before them; that
those errors are now manifest and clear; that
that record cannot be read without finding
them; and if you believe that, then it is your
duty so to find, and SO inform the President
of the United States. If you come to that
conclusion-if you come to the conclusion
that they did make these mistakes-if
| you come to the conclusion that they did SO.
| either by reason of the testimony as it exist
ed before them or by reason of the testi-
mony which has been brought before you;
in either event we feel that it is your duty,
under the circumstances, SO to declare by
your finding, and to vindicate Gen. Porter
from the charges which were made against
him, which destroyed his name and his rep
utation at the time the trial took place. So
far as any further recommendation may be
concerned, have no suggestions to make.
The only effort have made is to have the
] facts so presented as to induce you by your
| finding to restore Gen. Porter's name to
that page of history which, thus far, since
1862, has been blank; to restore it there
with the purity and integrity and the honor
for which he exerted himself as soldier,
and which he has always endeavored to
mai ntain as man. ...... .....-...
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03
Jokes trem Paris Papers.

"A military. man who beasts thath 80
can't be caught, no matter what YOU ask 8
him, but who is really stupid, is asked.
"How many miles from Paris 10 BerlinQn
Three hundred"
And how many from Berlin to Parisa"
& 1.-THE sameot course.a
That's where you're wrong.n
"WrongP exclaims the military man.
astonished and troubled.
Yes, wrong! You know how lone II is,
between Christmas ana New Year'sY,
"Yes.n sass 4 aeIscw e
Well, is 1t the same betWeen New
Years and Christmasf, IA
by Joyel you're right, | never thought
Of that BEFORE
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

Senate, naving been signed by the officers OF
both houses and the Governor.
About four hundred more plantation
negroes, recently from the South, left St.
Louis on the 22nd inst, for Kansas, and about
two hundred arrived by the steamer Helena
from Mississippi on the 2Srd inst.
A private letter received at Winnepeg
March %, says trouble is expected with In
dams in the West. Big Bear seized the goods
of trading party, and fifty mounted police
were dispatched to arrest him. Big Bear says
he viii not be taken, and is trying to induce
other, chiefs to join him In resisting the de-
Hmands OF Governor laird.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03
A HUGE JOKE.

Hosc They Established 1fecican Trade.
American Reporter.
The party of excusionists who went down
to Mexico went to establish trade between
tina two countries about as much as Noah
went up the mountain to take BATH They
went to havea good time, and they had it.
Its manager needed money, and he made it
out of the excursionists. He had an eye to
trade himself, aid he came back Mexican
consul at Chicago. Some of the excursion
lists wanted business, but great many more
of them wanted q warm climate in cold
weather, a grand time at the expense of the
Mexican government, and plenty of Mexican
whisky. They got the warm weather
and the whisky, but all they got at the ex-
pense of the Mexican government you could
put in your eye. As a business undertaking,
the expedition was not even colossal fraud
it was very small humbug. To call il
''The American Industrial Deputation" was
enough to make an oyerworked Mexican
donkey smile. have before me a list Of
the excursionists; of the eighty persons en-
rolled I can pick out at a moments notice
forty-four persons who had no business
whatever, ostensibly or otherwise. OF the
remaining thirty-six, not six actually went to
Mexico to extend their trade; and not four OF
them actually did anything toward it. If they
had they would not have succeeded. The ex-
cursionists were after riches, and they found
them in half the old idols and decayed skulls
in the Mexican republic. might mention
one of the party, who had no business at all
who would not have hesitated to 90 into
gentleman's house and ask for sample OF
his parlor carpet. This gentleman brought
home a cargo of Aztec Indian skulls, anC
enough roots and plants to set up second
hand botanical garden. Nothing could
satisfy his rapacity, and he was but little
worse than large majority of the party
The unlucky Mexican who brought samples
of his wares to the principal hotels for ex
hibition soon had to 60 back to his shop fol
more samples. The excursionists always
met him half way, and always loaded them
selves down with the samples. .Anythins
that was free was soon gathered in
Many of the party were from
quiet rural Western towns, and wer,
getting their first taste of rubbing against
the outside world. They scattered theil
lsatchels and bundles all over the republic
leaving one or two in every town the
stopped in. The man who did the mos
6ourishing business was q chrome mar
from Chicago, who sold cheap but gaud,
chromos at high prices, just as fast as th1
Mexicans could make the change. The ex
hibition in the college of mines, il it cOuli
be looked upon seriously as an exhibit o
| American wares, would be q standing dis
grace to the country. The goods exhibited
were of the cheapest and most ordinary
| kinda and fharn xUara varN FAM nf tham
There is tenfold better display of American
goods in any pawnshop's sale store in tn,
Bowery than was exhibited in Mexico.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03
STONE WELLS OF ARIZONA.
Natural Formations Ia an Artd Dcsert
- Arizona Sentinel. .. IN ~

Natural Formations Ia an Arid Desert
Arizona Sentinel. 4 49,
A wonderful place is Tinajas, about thirty
miles southeast of Mission Camp. The
mountains have one face OF hard, smooth
granite. All the water falling upon this
basin has to flow through nine tanks, one
above the other. The lower tanks are of
easy access, and are often drained of their
contents by men aud animals travelling be-
tween Yuma and Sonora. The upper tanks
are approached only by circuitous and diff
cult climbing over rocks. To one standing
below they afford no indication of their
existence, nor does climbing the smooth,
steep mountain side seem possible to
one unacquainted with the way they
do it. In the upper tanks water
has never been known to fail. To this
water comes game of all kinds in great num-
bers from the great waterless country
around Tinajas. Antelope, mountain sheep
and deer Of several kinds come in herds.
Rabbits and hares are as plenty as any
where, and are prey for many coyotes and
beautiful little rock foxes. One would think
that all this game would be thinned out by
the Papago Indians, who inhabit the coun-
try. But these Indians are superstitious,
and avoid Tinajas with abiect horror. With
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

8 II
viii wish this Irish colonizations scheme d
most abundant success. Not only this, but
they win wish that others may be started
and be operated until million Irishmen,
now struggling md sometimes starving IN
6hr great cities, shall be located on the
boundless prairies of the great Northwest.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

Ne, completely covered with strange charac-
ters and hieroglyphics, supposed to be made by
the Indians. Rude figures of men and animals
can be traced, accompanied by irregular char
acters not so legible.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

Father of adored one: ssThen it comes
to this, sir; you have no fortune, you
have lost your appointment, you have
no prospects OF another, and you come
to ask for my daughters hand--and for
tuneQ" sNoi suppose we put itkthis
way; I am unembarrassed BY wealth, am
free from the cares of business, and my
future is irradiated BY hopcs therefore.
this is the crisis when can best devote