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Freeman, the Pocasset Fanatic.
BARNsrABLE, Mass. May

BARNSTABLE, Mass, May 2.
Charles F. Freeman, who, four years ago
yesterday, butchered his little daughter in
the belief that he was the Christ of the nine
teenth century, was brought into the SUI
preme Court here yesterday to be
finally disposed Of Freeman was
indicted for the murder and adj
judged insane. The Indictment was
thereupon placed on file, and he was SEN
fenced to the Danvers Insane Hospital. He
came into court on certifcation from the au-
thorities of the latter institution that he has
regained the use of his mental faculties and
is no longer fit subje ct for their care. A
good deal of expert testimony was given to
show that Freeman was never insane except
upon religion, and that he has now fully re-
covered his reason upon that point.
Freeman himself testified, but broke down
when he came to the tragedy, and was ex-
cused from. relating the occurrence. On
cross examination he said: 81 experienced
religion when twenty-one years of age; was
connected with the church in Lynn for two
years; never experienced any revival feel
ings. Noticed when was in Pocasset and
took care of the church my religion
increased. Fifteen months before the
terrible act had tests and complied with
them for the act, and fully believed at the
time was doing Gods will. 1t occurred
to me that it was an insane act about two
years afterward. Never evaded the law of
the land but thought I should obey God
rather than man, as done by Jonah, Daniel
and others. have not, in my estimation,
been insane for about eleven or twelve
months at the least have had grief and
sorrow in relation to the act, and, as / fully
know the results, should never associate
with those persons who hold similar relig-
ious views. realize the great calamity. 1
was very much overworked' prior to that
time. I never slept and had no appetite.
Four weeks prior to that time did not fast,
as was represented, but because could not
eat. l could converse on any subject ration
ally except religion"
The court, Judge Coburn, decided the
question of insanity in the affirmative, and
remanded the prisoner to jail in the custody
of the Sheriff, where he will remain until a
question of habeas corpus, to be raised by
his counsel, shall have been decided.
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HUMOROUS.

"A man of pluck-A pickpocket.-
burlington Free Press.
-"Unspotted from the world'' is the
title of a new book. 1t is evidently the
history of the career of defaulting
cashier who has never been caught.
N. Y. Journal.
An Old Song Revised
What is a ship without sail2
Adieu, my lover, adeui
What is a monkey without tail?
A dude, my lover, a dude.
-"Saichers aunt"
The first passenger train passed
over the Pemigewasset Railroad short
time since. If that word should ever
get upon the track there will be fear
full smash-up.-SonaerUtlle Journal.
"A young man, while out hunting
for his fathers pig, accosted an Irish
man as follows: "Have you seen stray
pig about hereP'' Pat responded:
''Faix, how could I tell stray pig
from any other?"
They are not very fashionable out
on the Western frontier, but they know
how to lead the german. The other
day some vigilants put rope around
German horse thief's neck and led him
to tree.-Harlen, Times.
Teacher Well, how stupid you
are, to be sure! Can't multiply eighty
eight by twenty-five! I'll wager that
Charles can do it in less than no time"
Absurd pupil-'I shouldn't be sur
prised. They say fools multiply very
rapidly these days.
"A man who bought badly-ftting
suit that was much too large for him,
was constantly taken to task by his
good wife for his folly. One evening
as their little daughter was retiring,
they were much surprised to overhear
the following conclusion of her evening
prayer: please, God, make pa over
again, SO as his clothes IL fit him, and
then ma won't nag at him no morer'-
RatrGI Nea0 Yorker.
-" I wish you would have the pegs |
properly taken from these Shoes" said |
a Chicago girl to shoe dealer, from |
whom she had purchased pair the day |
before, "they hurt me so / can not wear
them" Certainly, Miss" was the
obliging answer, "but am afraid you
will have to wait day or two'' ''Why |
SOP" "Well, we already have a Job of |
the same kind at the foundry, and the |
steam peg scraper is not in very good
working order. st. Louis Republican,
-" And you say that you are inno-
cent of the charge of stealing rooster
from Mr.. Jones?" asked an Arkansas
Judge of a meek prisoner. "Yes, sir,
| am innocent-as innocent as child"
You are confident that you did NOT
steal the rooster from Mr.. Jones?"
g Yes, sir, and / can prove it. can
rooster, Judge, because / stole two hens
from Mr.. Garston the same night, and
Jones lives five miles from Garston's."
"The proof is conclusive" said the
Judge; " discharge the prisoner"
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There She SpOuts.

About three o'clock the other after
noon, says the New London, Conn.,
Day, as Captain d. G. Tinker, an old
whaler, and one of the crew of the
light-ship, were coming from Bartlett's
Reef with the keepers monthly report,
in the large schooner rugged boat at
tached to the ship, Captain Dan dis
covered something in the water, on his
lee bow, which looked strangely I'M
familiar in these waters, and yet pecu-
iarly familiar to Captain Tinker's re-
collection of the days gone by. He
called to the man with him, and pointed
to the object in the water. Just at the
moment monster lifted itself out of
the deep, and the forked spout of a
right whale was cast high into the air,
leaving no further doubt of the in
diViduality of the strange visitor. Capt
ain Tinker estimated that the whale
was at least of sixty barrels capacity,
and had not less than $4,000 worth of
oil and bone inside its carcass. The
sea monster was first discovered about
a mile and a half northeast from the
Bartlett's Reef light vessel, and in the
deep water between Goshen and Bart
let's Reef. Captain Tinker steered to-
ward the whale, tackled and retacked
after him, got within fifteen feet of him
once, and within twelve feet of him
again. He kept the animal in view for
more than an hour, and saw him sink,
rise and spout five successive times.
If there had been bomb lance on
board there. were three certainties of
killing the whale. 1t was too late when
Captain Tinker arrived in the city to
return with boat and weapons, and
probably the whale is by this time
the temperate waters of
the gulf stream, The right whale is
very seldom seen in the North Atlantic,
and it is more than a hundred years
since there is any record of such fish
in Long Island Sound, although over
a quarter of century ago it is
recorded that parties went right whal-
ing in the waters between Fishers
Island and Montauk Point. If Capt
ain Tinker had two hours more
daylight so that he would have had
time to get boat out before dark
ness had set in he has no doubt that his
bank account would have been several
thousand dollars heavier.
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A Railroad to Be Run on Religious
Principles.
LoUIsyILLE. XIV. Nav

LOUISVILLE. KY, May 8.
Tuesday Colonel Bennett III. Young,
President of the Louisville, New Albany &
Chicago Railroad, issued an order that, SO
far as possible, no work be done or trains
be run on that road on the Sabbath
day. Only passenger trains will be
run on that day in carrying mails,
and efforts be made to arrange for
their discontinuance. In cases of perishable
goods or live stock freight trains will run
when necessary only. The order further
says: ssYou will in future run no excur-
sion trains of any kind for any purpose dur
ing the Sabbath. This order applies to
camp-meeting trains. If the Christian peo-
pie can not find other places for worship
this company will not violate Divine and
civil law, and deny its employees the essen
tial rest of the Sabbath to carry
them to the camp-meeting ground.
I am also informed that a
number of the company's employees have
conscientious Scruples against any work on
who do not feel so strongly On this subject.
Under no ordinary circumstances must any
employe who objects on the ground of his re-
ligious convictions be ordered or required
to do any service Sundays. If any diff
cultles arise in the execution of this regula-
ton you will please report them to me for
consideration, and you will also notify the
employees of their right on conscientious
grounds to be fully protected in the obsery-
ance OF the day of rest"
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Women Doctors.

"Why," said Miss Chapman, of Pitts
burgh, 1--WE don't differ from the sterner
members of our profession in our meth
DDS of practice. We Just prescribe for
people and cure them as they do, with
a significant nod toward passing pro-
cession, following the result of some
brothers practice. II have been here
over eight years and consider myself
successful. The gentlemen of the pro-
fession could not be more courteous to
their own sisters. I am member of
the Anatomical Society of this city as
well as the County and State Medical
Societies. | have held elective positions
in all of them, which is, | think, an in
dication of pretty fair treatment, for a
woman at least.
81 had hard time getting a start,
perhaps not harder than the ordinary
beginners in this and other professions,
but it was discouraging. College and
the dissecting room are the worst feat
ures to be encountered. The first four
nights ! was in the dissecting room [
cried. The gentlemen laughed SO much
at our timidity Then | heard one of
them remark how becoming tears were
to the profession, and / left them off.
Ladies are not treated well in many in
stitutions whose charters compel their
admission. The faculty take that course
to discourage their attendance, since
many gentlemen will not attend what
they call a feminine institution.
ANY lady with a good education and
a mature mind, above feathers and lace
can succeed in the profession in this
city if she perseyeres. / prescribe some
times for gentlemen, but my practice is
largely among the ladies and children.
Half of my practice is among poor peo-
pie who can not pay. Many physicians
send patients to me whom they can not
treat from the fact that proper dag
nosis of the disease can not be obtained
Woman can understand woman, and it
often does a patient more good to talk
to her of spring bonnets and wraps than
is effected by the medicine. Pitts
basrgh Dispatch.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
az TRLEGRAPH AND MAIL.


INFORMATION was received by the Ma
Aonal Board of Health ON the 3D. that nine
ty.three deaths from yellow fever occurred
lin one week recently at Rio Janeiro, at
which place the disease had been declared
epidemic.
IT is claimed by President Dillon that,
Instead Of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany being indebted to the United States
Government $1,64S,991, the Government
owes the company g, 738, $50. The discrep-
ancy arises from difference of opinion as
to what constitutes a fair compensation for
carrying the mails.
DURING the seven days ended on the 4th
there were 1872 business failures, against 1S2
for the previous week, but SO more than in
the corresponding week Of 1889. The fail
ures were distributed as follows: New En-
gland States, 10; Middle, 10; Western, A;
Southern, 23 Pacific States and Terri
tories, 10; New York City, 8; and Canada,
30. The general run of failures was insig-
nificant.
THE report is made by Captain Hall, of
the United States Secret Service, that a
new counterfeit ten-dollar note has made
its appearance. 1t is a Photographic copy
of that of the First National Bank of
Milwaukee, and is fair imitation. The
numbers are: "Letter B, 2,715; Treas
ury, 347, JAG; bank, 269; series of 1882. :"
The portrait of Garfield and the seal, in
stead of being pink, are almost gray in
parts; the border of the back and the
lathe work are slate color, while they
should be brown; and the back of the CEN
ter, which ought to be green, is a pale
olive. The lathe work on the portrait is
poorly executed.
The number of standard silver dollars
issued during the week ended on the 9TH
was $4,000, against $4,000 for the CORE
spending week last year.
DURING the week ended on the 9TH the
exchanges at twenty five clearinghouse
in the United States amounted to 1887, 790,-
$40, against 1904, ,492 for the previous
week, indicating a general improvement in
business.
The Supreme Court of the United States
on the 7th rendered decision in the case
against the Chicago, Burlington g. Quincy
Railroad, known as the Ruggles suit, the
gist of the decision being that the State of
Illinois has right to fix maximum charges
for the conveyance of freight and passen-
gers.
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Foreign Intelligence.

On the Sd the following persons were in
dicted for murder at Dublin, Ireland: John
Walsh, recently arrived in this country: P.
J. Sheridan, of the Irish World, New York.
and Peter lyman, commonly known as No.
1, who was supposed to be in the United
States. 1t was expected demand would
speedily be made upon this Government for
the extradition of these men, who were
alleged to have been at the head of the con-
spiracy that resulted in the Phoenix Park
murders.
ADvIcEs Of the Sd from Victoria, B. c.,
state that the steamer Grappler, running
between Puget Sound and Alaska, was
burned on the night of the 10Th ult., and
sixty lives were reported lost. The vic
Tins were mostly Cinnamon, who became
uncomfortable when the fire broke out, and
jumped into the boats to their own destruc-
ton.
A FIGHT recently occurred between the
Federal forces and bandits near Flapla.
pam, Mex, and five Of the latter were
killed,
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Personal AND LITERARY.

There are three hundred women
employed as journalists in the United
States.
After lapse of thirty years, Sir
Walter Scott's works are being retrans-
lated and republished in France.
Mayor Hutchinson, of Utica, looks
so much like Napoleon Ill, that when
Eugene saw him in England, while
ago, she tainted away.-UttcG on %
Herald.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of
Boston, recently completed his seventy
fourth year. Physically and mentally
he yet seems as vigorous as he was
thirty years ago.-BoSton Transcript.
The youngest of Delaware's Judges,
Associate Judge Wales, is sixty years
old. Chancellor Salisbury is sixty-six.
Chief Justice Comegy is past seventy.
Judge Houston is close on to seventy.
Judge Wootten is nearly eighty
Samuel Crump, of Pittsford, near
Rochester, N. Y, has recently sold to
Nathan Greeley, of Kansas City, file
of the New York Tribune covering the
entire period of Horace Greeley's ed
itorship, a period of twenty-eight years.
The editions were weekly and semi
weekly, and were sold for fifty dollars.
Mrs. Susan Boylston Treadway,
the granddaughter of President John
Adams and the niece of John Quincy
Adams, is living in Baltimore at the
age of eighty-six. Mrs. Treadway has
been twice an inmate of the White
House, the first time at the early age
of four years, and her recollections of
events and distinguished people extend
over period of eighty years. Chicago
Tribune.
IA Scamper Through America"
Is the title of new book written by an
English giant in intellect and just pub
lished in London, which describes,
among other interesting things, visit
to the Hoffman House hotel at New
York, where they have the finest drink
ing bar in the world, "presided over
by the notorious Fiske, who got off SO
easily after short incarceration for
shooting Mr.. Seward on the staircase of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. N Y Times.
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
is said to be every vain for so able
man." When the Legislature appro-
priated 100000 for the State Universe
ty, he sent from Jefferson City to st.
Louis and bought ten-dollar gold pen
with which to sign the bill. Then he
sent the pen as a present to James Roll
Inns, accompanied by a letter saying
that the only time the pen had been
dipped in ink was to sign the bill APP
propriating 100000 for the University.
Chicago Times.
Marie Roze is the only singer Of
distinction who isn't afraid. of catching
cold. Nilsson treats her throat as she
would sick baby; Kellogg was afraid
to venture out of doors twenty-four |
hours before she sang; Hauk goes to |
bed and remains there in complete 81 |
lence six hours before she appears in
concert; Abbott has the doors and win
dows of her room hung with bed blan-
kets lest draft strike her precious per
son; Gerster wears a heavy shawl while
the halls of her hotel; but |
Marie Roze is as careless of exposure as
a child. - Chicago Herald.
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The Wrong Dog.

eff you please, SIR" said boy lead
ing dog, to a gentleman he APP
preached, ''haye you seen anything of a
lost liver?''
"a lost liver? What do you mean?"
inquired the gentleman in astonish-
ment.
''Why, sir, man advertises in the
paper that he will pay fifteen dollars
for the return of a lost liver and white
pointer dog. Here's the white dog, but
Ican't find the liver
As this paper goes to press the gentle
man is trying to explain to the liver boy
that the pointer-and-white-dog. OH
pshaw. That the pointer boy and the
lost liver and white dog were errors Of
punctuation; but who ever sausage .
mixture of meat and rhetoric befoFep-
Detroit Post and Tribune.
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AT Woxnrn, Mass, a few nights ago,
John Callahan, while on drunken spree,
obliged his three-year-old boy to gorge
himself with whisky, and, when the child
refused to drink more, the father threw
whisky in his face. The little fellow died
in commissions the next morning.
BECAUSE of their refusal to work at re-
duced wages, fourteen hundred shoe-makers
at Marblehead, Mass, were locked out on
the 7th.
THE temporary suspension of the Pitts
burgh nail factories, which was to have
gone into effect on the 7th, was indefinitely
postponed. Trade was reported good.
The Welland and New York Canals were
opened for business on the 7th.
PAPERS were recently filed with the Sec
rotary Of State of New York by Thomas A.
Edison and others, representing capital
Of 100000, incorporating the Electric
Railway Company Of the United States.
THE statement is made by Cardinal Nc
Closkey, of New York, that the assertion is
absurd that the Papal Secretary of State
demanded an explanation for his NC
Closkey's) reception of Alexander Sulli-
van, President of the Irish National League.
On the 7th Richard Brennan, crazy ex-
soldier, shot and severely wounded Mr..
Wade, Chief of the District Police of Bos-
ton. 1t has been ascertained that Brennan
intended to shoot many persons, Governor
Butler included.
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''Well, / was beat out of a splendid
evenings engagement, Sunday night"
said the Notwithstanding young man,
the young man with the well balanced
mind, if parting his hair in the middle
balances his mind. 1t was Monday
evening, and he was unburdening him.
self to the drug clerk.
what was the trouble" said the
drug clerk, as he took a bottle of per-
fumery and squirted some in his hair
and on his vest "Did some other fell
low get to the girls house ahead OF
youP"
mo, but l was stood off. You see, /
went to the house, and the servant let
me in and was seated in the parlor.
My girl came in the room, with woe
depicted on every feature. She stood
with her head down, her hands claSped
in front of her, SO tight that the blood
stopped circulating in her fingers, and
she seemed utterly crushed. 1t made
me sick at heart to look at her, and (
knew something dreadful had happened.
L got up and started toward her. to
take her in my arms, let her head rest
on my bosom, and help her bear the
burden that was evidently killing her,
but before | had advanced two stems
she held up her hand and shouted:
Back, back Advance another step at
your peril!' / stopped and tried to
find out what was the matter. but
she would not speak. Finally !
started for her again, but she
held up her hands again and said: Go,
leave me! am not strong. Go, and
tomorrow l will write you ALL Well,
| went. Any gentleman would, under
the circumstances, and all night I
dreamed that she was dying, and this
morning went by her house to see if
there was Grape on the door. tell YOU,
Pills, have suffered more in the last
eighteen hours than man ever suffered
before. could see her laid out, and
the hearse in front of the house, and
everything was as plain to me as though
it had actually occurred. 1 have shad-
owed the postoffice all day, and 1 just
got this note, explaining it.
"Good heavens, she is not dead"
said the drug clerk, as he pounded some
herbs In a mortar.
"No, she is alive, but don't know
what she meant by telling me she was
not strong last night. She writes me
that she had been eating onions for a
cold. That was the reason she told me
to advance one step at my peril Why,
l could have discounted them onions. |
had been eating limberg cheese all the
afternoon, with the boys, at the poker
rooms and onions wouldn't have made
a first payment on me. just think what
an evening missed by this COMPOUNDED
superstition about onions. Have
cigarette, Pills." and the young man
with the well-balanced mind pulled out
a case and treated his friend, and they
sat and smoked in silence until a woman
came in after bottle of castor OIL
Peck;'S San.
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IATER

MAJOR WATSON, United States Pay
master, who recently reported that he was
robbed on the Texas Pacific of $24, 900, con-
fessed on the Sth that there was no rob-
berry, and he was placed under guard at
San Antonio, and would be court-martialed.
he designated the spot were some $4,000
was concealed, and officers had gone to hunt
it up. Fast living led to his downfall.
REPORTS received by the Illinois Depart
ment Agriculture on the Sth indicated that
the condition of winter wheat in the State
was not very promising. The yield was
estimated at 2O,374,o97 bushels, against
50,944 ,249 bushels in 1882
The sentence of death passed upon Pat
rick Delaney, one of the assistants in
the Phoenix Park murders at Dublin, Ire
land, who pleaded guilty to the crime with
which he was charged, has been committed
to penal servitude for life.
A GREAT hail-storm prevailed at Denver,
COL, on the Sth. The hail-stones were said
to be an inch in diameter, and fell to
depth of six inches, destroying fruit trees.
STRIKING miners at the Western Coop
erative mine in West Belleville, Mo-, SCI
fire to the mine on the Sth, and men who
attempted to extinguish the fire were driven
away by the strikers. The loss by the fire
was estimated at 100000.
A LONDON firm operating in Grand Trunk
Railway securities has failed for So, 100000
A WIND, rain and thunder storm at Pat
erson, n. j., on the evening of the Sth un-
rooted many buildings, scattered lumber
piles and uprooted trees. At Trenton the
main tent of a circus was blown down and
The canvas and aerial apparatus destroyed.
Many houses were struck by lightning at
Williamsburg, Pa, and trees, fences and
roofs were blown down.
G. E. CRAGAN, a baggage-master, and
William Herzog, brakeman, on the run
from Longview to Texarkana, on the Inter
national & Great Northern Road, were ar
rested at Longview, Tex, on the Sth,
charged with having robbed the baggage
OF passengers repeatedly during the past
year or two. The company had paid be-
tween $4,000 and s., 900 to passengers as in
demnlty for losses sustained by differing
from trunks.
MRS. +. B. WEST, wife of Rev. Josiah
West, of Brooklyn, N. Y, while visiting
her daughters grave in Greenwood Gene
terry on the Sth, was taken suddenly i'll and
died before physician could be called.
GEORGE BLISS concluded his argument
for the prosecution in the Star-route trial
at Washington on the Sth, having spoken
for seven days.
ANOTHER earthquake was reported in Sic
lily on the Sth, and Mount 1Etna promised
an activity, causing much alarm. The
shock occurred at Biancavilla,
town Of two thousand inhabitants, where
great damage was done,