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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-25
miscellaneous.
A Famous Hunter.

HOW HE MADE $115 INA WOLF FIGHT ON THE
TOP OF ROAM MOUNTAIN.
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[Freeport. (M.) Bulletin I

There is now q substance which IL both
professionally and popularity Endorsed, and
concerning which, Mr.. J. b. Ferschweiller,
Buttevillc, Oregon, writes l have often
read of the many cures effected by st. Jacobs
Oil and was persuaded to try the remedy
myself. Twas sufferer from rheumatism and
experienced great pains, my leg being so
swollen that could not move it. Iprocur-
ed st. Jacobs OIL, used it freely and was
cured
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-25

DARN WAGONS.-All sizes Wagons, cheap
II or, more durable, and more convenient than
any made in this State. For sale by.
E. M. ALLEN.
Stafford, March :, 1881. mill
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-25

Frank o. Herring, Esq, of the Champion
Safe Works, 25l and 252 Broadway, New
York, reports the use of st. Jacobs Oil for a
stiffness and soreness of the shoulder, with
most pleasant and effcacous effects,
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-03-10

"The last person expected to see
sir" she added. II had not seen him
for many months. and had no sort of
claim upon him. sir. II was William
Edison. discarded lover sir.
"Indeedw exclaimed. Then you
have one friend at least. And he APP
pears to be one in your need.
"IIe is Just gone, sir. He is able and
will furnish the necessary bail for me
at once"
"This is well, Mary but think you
will have no occasion for it. | have
represented your case in the proper
quarter. and | think an order for your
release will shortly be here
And so it turned out, an hour after
wards.
had the pleasure of seeing Mary
discharged, a very happy being, with
out further trouble a carriage wait
ed at the door, into which young ed
son placed her. and they rode away in
excellent spirits.
Mary sought out her sick brother
at once, and under Edson's advice she
forthwith exchanged her old quarters
for more acceptable lodgings. 1t
seemed that although Mary had dis
carded Edison year before, when he
had made pretcntionS to her he per
sisted in looking after her, and had
that day made inquiries for her, and
learned of her unfortunate misadYen-
ture.
He hastened to the prison. where the
young woman quickly explained every
thing and he lost no tine in getting
her relieved though his proffered aid
in this instance was not needed. rs it
proved
He, however, again proffered her his
hand, and | was gratilied ut learning,
a few months subsequently, that Mary
Howell became Mrs. William Edison;
and that she proved faithful wife to
one of the best of husbands. though
he did find her. at last, in the cell OF
a Jail
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ROCK NE TO SLEEP.
ny MRS. AKERS.


Backward, turn backward, o Time in yonr
flight
Make me child again, just for tonight
Mother, come back from that echolcss
shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore--
Kiss from my forehead the burrows of care,
Smooth the few silver threads out of my
hair;
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep
Rock me TO sleep, mother-rock me to sleep 7!
Backward. fly backward, O tide of the
years!
| am so weary of toll and of tears
Toll without recOmpense, tears all in vain
Take them and give me my childhood
again!
have grown weary with dust and decay,
Weary Of flinging my soul-wealth away
Weary of sowing for others to reap
Rock me TO sleep, mother-rock me to sleep I.
Tired of the hollow, the base the untrue:
Mother, o mother, my heart calls for you. !.
Many u summer the grass has grown green
BlosSomed and faded our faces between,
Yet with strong yearning and passionate
pain,
Long tonight for your presence again;
Come from the silence SO long and so deep
Rock me TO sleep. mOther-rOck me To sleep.
Over my heart in the days that are flown
NO love ike mother love ever mas SnOne-
No other worship abides and cndureS,
Faithful, unsclsh and patient like yours
None like u mother can charm away pain
From the sick soul and worldwcary brain;
Slumber'S soft calm DER my heavy lids
creep
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep!
Come, let your brown hair just lighted with
gold
Fall on your shoulders again as of old
Let il drop over my forehead tonight,
Shading my faint eyes away from the light
For, with its sunny-edged shadows once
more,
Haply will throng the sweet visions of
yOre;
Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep!
Mother, dear mother the years have been
long
Since last listened your lullaby song,
Sing then, and unto my soul it shall seem
WOmanhood's years have been only a dream
Clasped to your heart in Il loving embrace,
With your light lashes just sweeping my
face;
Never hereafter to wake or To weep
Rock me to sleep, mother-rock me to sleep.
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A W0RK-WOMAN'S FORTUNE.

By Retired Lawyer.
| was called to the Jail in C, one
evening, to confer with client whose
trial came on in day or two; and as l
passed the half dozen cells between
the inner door of the prison and the
apartment where my patron was con-
confined, caught sight of the troubled
but handsome face of a young woman,
who sat leaning against the iron bars
of one of the little rooms, and | halt
ed for an instant to look at her.
She shrank away timidly to the rear
of the cell, however, and | had the op-
portunity simply to observe that she
bore. in her general contour. the traces
of poor unfortunate" in the usual
acceptation of that unfortunate term.
| concluded the interview with my
client in few moments, and just be-
for leaving him, | inquired:
"Who is your neighbor, yonder?"
"The young woman?" he asked in a
whisper.
"YeS-next door"
II do not know" he replied.
"How long has she been here?"
asked.
"Since yesterday only" he added
"What is she here .f0rF
Il do not know that, either. only
observe that she weeps and sobs al
most necessarily, and has in vain ap-
piled 60 the deputy. who passes up and
down this corridor, to learn why she is
confined here"
|'rhe old story" | suggested. "A
repentant-too late"
"Perhaps SO" reioined my client. ''Or
1T may be a case of oppression, hard
ship, injustice"
-SShe certainly is very pretty" adj
ed, "and really looks too poorly tidy
TO be a criminal.
az have not seen her." he added.
"Why don't you speak with her, as
YOU 60 Out?" he inquired interrogative-
ly.
"She shuns observation" | said
land does not seem desirous to COM
municate with stranger, Judge"
Naturally enough responded my
client. "And this indicates that she
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The White House.
Washington Correspondence.

The White House is the greatest res
idence in America. 1t has cost more
money than the Stewart mansion on
Fifth avenue, New York; or. with its
rebuilding, refurnishing etc, about
81, 100000. The original cost in 1892
was about S33O,OOO: it was begun in
that year, occupied in 1900 rebuilt in
1918, reoccupied in 1918. and ftS porti-
cos completed rs late rs 1929 The
east room was finished only fifty wears
ago. Every one Of our presidents, eX-
cept Washington. has lived in this
great house, and he has poked his
horses head into its portal to look up
1T the wOrkmen plaStering on the seal
fold. An Irish architect named Heber
direct from Dublin via Charleston. took
the award of five hundred dollars for
the design, and he built and rebuilt it.
and lies buried in the Catholic cemetery
here, and his descendants are reSpecta-
bic lawyers and citizens of the place.
y building for Il private residence of
one hundred and seventy feet front by
slXty-eight feet deep, with one room in
it eighty by forty, may yet attract re-
publican attention; its yestibule with
in the front door is alone fifty by forty
feet. Twenty acres Of garden and park
Immediately enclose it, and, on either
side, each separated by only four hun
dred and fifty feet, are buildings
which cost seven to twelve millions
apiece; yet in AL its apparent antiquity.
how new. The lawn is still Il naked
plain, reaching off to the Potomac like
Il desert coming to the palace stairs.
Like Versailles. in the time OF Louis
NV Washington is a government
creation, and this White ITouseis hoarv
only by events. The presidents Office.
which is in the second story, is also
the cabinet room, and is not a very
large apartment for the White House.
although about thirty-liye or forty feet
in depth, by, perhaps, thirty feet wide.
and with high ceiling. 4 long table
is in the middle of the floor, with leath-
er-seated chairs around it; the two
windows have long lambreQuin curtains
of dark, blush gray color. A large
map of the United States is on the
wall, The carpet is of red tint. with
large figures. The general effect of the
room rs one enters is that of n library
without books.
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as pass out"
And turning away from the young
mans cell, | halted again before the
door of the girls apartment. and ac-
coSted her.
"Good-evening, Miss" ventured, in
friendly tone.
She was sitting upon the side of her
little low bed, away from the barred
grating, and for an instant she did not
answer. Then, rising and coming tim
orously towards me, she asked, in Il
gentle way, "Who is it,"
81 am stranger to you, Miss" |
answered. 81 had occasion to call up
on your next door neighbor profession
ally tonight. | am his legal attorney.
| saw YOU as / passed, and-though it
is not my habit to do So could not
resist the impulse to ask YOU if | could
be of service to you. Have you any
counsel engaged?'
"No, sir-no she replied with u
sigh.
"Will you permit me, then, to inquire
what brings you here?'
Poverty and misfortune. sir
"Not crime"
ooh no, sir, On my honor, nO," she
exclaimed, with singular earnestness
and candor. And then her tears flowed
copiously, rs she briefly recounted the
circumstances of her hard case. and
present peril
81 do not know" she continued. pre-
cisely who | am in this place. Is it
not a prison, sir" she inquired. artlesS-
ly
"Yes, Miss"
"But | have not been accused. |
have had no trial. | have never been
III court even ut all.
when did you come here"
Yesterday"
what are the allegations made
against you?"
"That cannot explain. | do not
know, sir. I am very poor and entIle-
ly friendleSS. | am Il SeamStresS.
have been compelled for several years
to toll very hard, sir, to support my
self and an invalid younger brother,
with my needle; and the scanty pay
we women can command for such
labor as you know, is but miserable
pittance at the best.
"Yes," | said, 81 am aware of this"
1--WE occupied an attic room she
continued. lin remote part of the city,
and | had struggled along, and kept
soul and body together, us well us pro-
viding for the needs of my poor broth
er, until up to a week ago; when, yes
terday morning, | overheard confused
talk in the story below us which was
occupied by some rude people-for
persons in our humble position cannot
choose the position in which we may
stay, you know, sir-and soon learned
that some goods had been purloined by
certain parties suspected there, and the
premises were being searched by officers.
"A portion of the missing goods was
found there, and four or five persons
were arrested rs being concerned in
the affair. | was simply passing
locker on at the moment of the
trouble, and was astounded, when the
others were called upon to accompany
the officials, to find that they insisted
on taking me with them.
IL demonstrated in vain. My poor
little invalid brother must Starve, if
they do not care for him, sir. And all
| have been able to learn, in my eX-
is, that | must give bail
What is it to give bail, sir, if you
peasey
security for your appearance at
court, Miss" | replied.
"But how? Inwhat way
"SOme friend must recognize to the
authorities in required sum, to for
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NO friend to

call upon, none whatever.
at is late" I replied, "and Il night
of rest will do You no harm now, Miss.
BE of good cheer. | will examine into
your case before | sleep; and at an
early hour in the morning you shall
see me again. Good night, Miss, and
rest quietly with the assurance that |
will do what is in my power to serve
YOU, and promptly"
She stared upon me with her great
nashing eyes, evidently not clearly
comprehending my good intentions;
and | departed with the impression, if
she were guilty person, that she GER
tainly was the most innocent looking
one | had for a long time seen. On my
way out | inquired at the jail-otlice
who she was.
What number?" inquired the grouty
Deputy, roughly.
Number thirteen, south wing" l
said
az woman?' he added, briefly.
"Yes; she came in yesterday.
"Oh-ah h-yes One of "A gang q
shop-lfters. Five on 'em in all. Mum
ber thirteen's Mary Howell. The rest
give bail.
"And are all the others released"
asked.
"In coorse they air. She'd il gone
too, on'y she couldn't give no security,
YOU see
| left the prison with an unusually
heavy heart. On further inquiry out
side. | aScertained that the invalid boy
had been taken care of temporarily;
and subsequently learned the follow
ing particulars of this curious, but not
very uncommon case of hardship and
wrong.
Oliver Howell had lived. twenty
years before, III a fine house in a fash
ionable quarter of the city, in aflluent
The fire of 80 beggar-
ed hundreds OF men of fortune, and
Howell among the unlucly number.
He had two children IA daughter
and Il crippled son. The mother died,
and then the father. The children
were left to the cold charity of rela-
at the earliest convenient opportunity
and the girl found herself, at sixteen.
alone in the world, with the encum-
brance OF her sick brother on her
hands, whom she never forsook or ne
elected
After trying various experiments,
she obtained needle-work, and contriV-
ed to keep herself and brother alive, in
the attic room Of a poor house in an
obscure part of the town; and the
wolf had been kept from the door until
she was suddenly torn from her garret
10y the officers, who arrested all they
could find ut hand, and was charged
with being accessory to the robbery
mentioned.
She had never associated with these
persons in any manner whatever, nor
did she know anything of their charac-
ter. She supposed them to be poor like
herself, ,andShe had no occasion to inquire
us to anybody's reputation. She had little
leisure-heaven help her!-to look into
the affairs of others. But the police
seized her, and she was a prisoner.
rose at IN earlier hour than usual
the next morning, and made my APP
pearance at the chambers of Judge =
stated the case briefly to him,
and expressed my surprise that a wo-
man should have been thus detained in
IA prison cell, for eight-and -fortyhours,
upon suspicion, without hearing He
said it was not uncommon There
was Il vast deal Of crime transpiring
and the innocent sometimes
with, or even for, the guilty.
lie would give this case his early at
tention; which, fortunately for Mary,
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NEW-YORK CITY


barbara laubert, age six months died yes+or,,
at NO o|o East SiXteenth-st.. of smallpox -"S
There Will be music on the Mall i'm CentroI p.,
to-day at D. H., &. w. Wernig conductor IN
Mr.. Green, age seventy-two years. of No 5a7 Eoa.
disease. '"y Vi heart
me Underground Telegraph Companv vostoraor
TESTED the wires running between Police ReoTnn"SS
feet. ~ '"no .hem per-
~, PART OF THEIR SALARY PAID.
!, Inc employees In the Custodian's Department nc
the fost Offce were paid months salary vester
day Tor the new fiscal year. Their salaries foS thra
months are still unpaid. AVA 'hioo
~, TOO LARGE FOR HER THROAT
.EnZaDeth fiultzman age fifteen, of No 1o1 Allan
~, got crochet needle in her throat vesterdau
she could not get IL out, and it was removal VIII,
diihculty by an ambulance surgeon. "-'''
INDICTED FOR GETTING UP sENsAuoNa
- An indictinent was found yesterday against John
W. Luke who, it is alleged, furnished certain state
m"nis 10 me Star apparently implicating john
barrett with the robbery of A. I. Stewards grave
~ -FOUR BABIES ABANDONED IN ONE DAY
Three babies were abandoned in the street and
one IN the Dcsbrosaes Street Ferry-house In the
twcnty.four hours ending at noon Yesterday They
we're ~ turned over to the police and sent to the
Founding Asylum, Ao
go, ,cIiAhGRs Against CITY MARaIiAI
~ hc nearing ~ The complaint preferred by Mrs,
hadclihe VI NO. 2i0 West Thirty third-st.. against
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-06
A SURPRISE FOR THEIR PARENTS

Michael Crouin, a blacksmith doing business in
the village of Mamaroneck, and his wife visited
this city Thursday, leaving their two sons Michael
age thirteen years, and James, age ten years AT
their house in Grand-st., Wasmngtonvlle about n
quarter of mile from the MaInaroneck station
Before leaving home they locked up all the matches
id the house. About half-past o'clock the eldest
boy conceived the idea of giving his parents the
pleasant surprise of finding supper prepared for
them ON their return. He was unable to find the
matches, and went to neighbor's house to beg
few He was refused, but he finally succeeded in
obtaining some. In order to facilitate the
ignition tgIm OF the wood. he poured guam
exp osion took place and the flames communicated
with the oil which burst and scattered its CON
tents In all directions, setting fire the clothes of
the two boys and the kitchen floor. Michael Cronin
sprang out of the window. aud by his shrieks at
tracted the attention of Mrs Berger neighbor.
who smothered the flames by throwing blanket
around him. She then carried him to her house and
sent for Dr. Swan. of Rye Neck, who dressed the
wounds, WV
In the meantime the fire in the house had been ex-
tlnguished. The clothes of Michael were SO badly
burned that they fell from him to the ground
Doubts are entertained of his recovery His brother
James was not very seriously injured, although his
clothes were on fire. On the return of Mr. and Mira
Cronin from the city Michael was removed on a
stretcher TO his fathers home
A young girl who has been regularly using kero-
senc OH IN klndllng fires, and has had several mar
row escapes, called to the boys Yesterday and
expressed her determination never to use kerosene
again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-06
HANGING HIMSELF ON A HoUsE-ToP

n CARVER IN A RESTAURANT, WHO CLAIMED A FOR
TUNE, DRIVEN TO SUICIDE BY DEsPoNDENCY
Henry Cvon Hulda, a German thirty-one years old
hanged himself on the roof of the tenement house
at No. l15 Delancey-st., Thursday night or yestor
day morning He lived with his wife on the top
floor OF the house. piece of whip-cord tied to a
clothes line the instrument of death
and to strange himself Won Hulda had
to rest with all his weight upon the cord
kneeiing on the roof he did So He was found
dead by his wife, who thought him asleep and at
noon yesterday his body lying on the heated
roof exposed to the burning of the SUM- the Cor
oner not yet having arrived. policeman, Invested
OF half his clothing; was endeavorng, by erecting a
barrlcade OF SHAREHOLDERS, increase the narrow
shadow of a chimney for Mrs. Won Hulda's protec-
ton, while she kept watch over the body
Won Hulda was employed i'll a downtown restau-
rant as carver. The prefix "von" to his name ndi-
Gated that he was of noble lineage and the carver
claimed To be heir to estate Hesse- Darms adj
In Germany, which in his grandmothers time had
been usurped by another branch of the family He
was confident of his ability to substantiate his claim
which had been made by his father before him
II the means to carry the the courts could be
round. TO earn money for this purpose was one of
OF his objects In coming to this country which he
did when very young. He made little head wav
and expressed Impotence at the apparent imposs
biiity of his being able to go back to GERMANY
toclaim his inheritance Disappointment agCra waited
by discomfort caused by the sultry weather probably
led to his suicide. So far az known he has no
papers to establish his claims to any Inheritance
Ills father and mother very poor, the father
working as laborer on an estate of the name of
Edelhot III Hcsse-Darnstadt.
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THE INQUEST AT RYE.

The Rye inquest in the of Conductor Latin
was continued yesterday. The evidence was largely
c cum Engineer Elliott, of the up-rcght
habit of repeating in high key most of the anes-
mons put to him by Lawyer Dillon and Coroner
Hyler. He said that Dunn, the flagman would be
seen by him sometimes coming in after his engine
Dunn TO come in.
Richard Finnegans of South Norwalk, rear brake
man on the Hare River way freight testified that
he heard two short hstles to call off brakes before
une tolnsioh ana Kept on with his flag to stop any
up tram that might be coming. The signals he
heard were the same az those usually blown to let
on brakes: and the witness SAID he would not come
IN on hearing them Dunn came in the caboose aftfr
ele accident and said, Jimmy, Pve done it,"
Spaulding said, YOU'RE right you've done it,
Dunn Dunn asked what he should do about it, and
Spauding told him to tell Vice President Reed the
truth The witness said he had had no conversao
t0n with Spauldng about this talk
President Watrous then questioned the witness
Inc men In the cabOose were washing and waiting
their turn at the basin. The track was strewn with
debris, but the wreckng train had not arrived
Michael kearns of Stamford, and Charles Boyle, of
ew-Rochelle, brakemen, corroborated the state.
ment OF the "caboose conference" as the foreman
Wednesday next. w
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-06
ROBBING THE ASTOR LIBRARY.

Among the frequenters of the Astor Library, when
OPEN for some time has been Samuel Watt an Irish
man, living at No. 81 West Twenty-frst-st. He
was frequent attendant and would spend hours i'm
porng over books. No particular attention was
PAID him by either Frederick Saunders the libra
rian or Joseph A Leonard the cataoguer: but these
officers came to know him very well by sight April
last MIR. Saunders was called into the store of Mr.
Duggan, at No. "a Bleecker-st. dealer in rare and
secondhand books Mr. Duggan asked him if he
W 1ld ike to purchase for the library four volumes
OF Bentley on =" Medical Plants" Mr. Saunders re-
piled that he had them, and thought nothing more
OF the matter until some time afterward when q
visitor called tor the books and il was fonud that
they were missing. Mr.. Duggan was again called
upon and asked for the books. Mr. Saunders. mon
closely examining them, discovered that they were
the property of the library, the stamp having been
dexterousy erased; TWAS learned that he had pur-
chased them from Watt III April. Justice Blxbv then
sitting at the Jefferson Market Police Court ssned
warrant for Watts arrest, but he could not be
found. Thursday evening, however, while Mr. Leon
ard was IN Waverly-place, he saw Watt, whom, he
Kept IN view until policeman came along, when he
had him arrested. ~ "'
Yesterday morning Watt was before Justice Nor
gan at the Jefferson Market Police Court where he
was identified by Mr.. Duggan, and upon the com.
plant OF Mr. Saunders aud Mr.. Leonard was held for
trIal. ar. Saunders says that he thinks Watt must
nave stolen books worth $40 having probably con-
ceaied them under his coat upon leaving the library