The National tribune., 1883-01-04

Cured the Tuckaseegee is swift and deep, with
rapids just below The men chung together in
knots those who could not swim clinging TO
those who could. Some were carried into the
rapids and drowned there Only twelve con
victs We're saved. One of the guards was washed
ashore below the rapids inseusiOle, but he was
restored 10 consciousness.
During the past year, says the New York
Ermiag Telegram, crime has held high carnival
IN the United States. On an average each day
there have been two murders and one suicide
On the other hand executions have averaged
only two in a week aud lyuChiug one. Since
January ,730 persons have met their death at
the hands of their felIow-mon. One hundred
and twenty-five were mysterious murders
There were ffty-two wife murders FIVE muir
ders Of husbands, SIX parricIdes, four matrI-
CideS, five tTatTlCIdCS and two sOrOTIcldes. Forty
children were killed by their parents. In
twenty-three OF the crimes there were two
aS5assns, IN three instances there were three
of them. Twenty-four OF the murdereCs COM
mitted suicide and one died in jail.
An Emporia, Kan, dispatch says Mary Tsa-
bella Martin, who was tried in the District
Court OF this county in November for the mUr-
der Of Mrs. Lorraine III. huger and who has
been faiguing insanity since a verdict OF guilty
was rendered, has been pronounced sane by a
competent board of physicians and has been
sentenced 10 be hanged according TO the laws
OF Kansas, after one years confinement at ha I'd
labor in the peniteuGaTy- The crime was coiu-
mitJed for the purpose Of obtaining $4,000 III
surance upon the life of the deceased woman,
the policy having been taken ont few weeks
previous to her death and made payable to the
son of Mrs. Martin, who IS still in Jail and VIII
be tried as an acc0mplice il February.
Judge Briggs. of PhiIa., has rendered an opin-
ion that atheists and all others who do not
believe in a Divine being ana Divine rewards
and puuiShmentS are Incompetent as witnesses.
The question was brought up on a motion for a
new trial in a suit, the ground for the motion
being that Judge Briggs had admitted the tes-
timony Of Robert Becker, who said that, al
though he believed in the Creator Of the uni
verse and in a supreme power which would
punish him here for false swearing, he did not
believe in God rs commonly understood by the
people, nor in personal God, nor IN God rs an
entity.
A large bloodhound in S. E. Merwins pack
iug-house in New Haven, Conn, Thursday
night sprang upon Chas. IL. Nichols, a book
keeper, seizing him by the throat, decorating
him terribly and severing an artery IN his left
arm. James Farrell split the dogs hesd open
with a clever and cut of his right fore leg be-
fore hewOuld let 90. The dog had been treacher-
Gus, and had been subdued by the watchman
with hot water from a kettle on the stovo.
Nichols was filling the kettle with water when
the dog spraag at him. The brute inflicted
about twenty severe wounds.
David Ferguson, late collector of back taxes,
under indictment at Louisville for malfeasanc"
in Office, has confessed to the mayor and city
attorney that he had used the funds of the city
both while tax receiver and back-JaN collector.
He claims that he divided with George Levi,
the late deputy collector, but exonerates the
auditor Phil. Hinkle, who, he says, got 10
share of the money.
Shortly after twelve o'clock on Sunday night,
while watch meeting services were being held
in the Reformed Evangelical Church at Read
ing, Pa, large cannon, filed with stones and
powder, was discharged. The front wall was
broken in, and nearly all the wnd0w-panes
shattered Great excitement was caused among
the audience, but no one was hurt. Eight
arrests have been made
Mayor Samuel Galley, of the city of Salem,
Mass, whose term of Office. expired on Sunday
last, committed suicide in the afternoon. He
went home at three o'clock, and told his family
he was tired and would retire to his room and
rest. His daughter went up stairs later 20 call
him, and found his lifeless body hanging 10 the
banisters OF the back stairs
The murderers Of Jesse James, now on ex-
hibitiOn in a Boston museum, attacked their
audience and caused a stampede on Saturday
because some one in the throng called the Ford
brothers towards.
The courts of Philadelphia having denied
every legal method Of delay the Gas Trust trial
is now at issue and viii be at once pushed for
ward to a conclusion.
A fire which broke out in the clothing house
of Friend Brothers Milwaukee, Wis. Sunday
morning, destroying property valued at upwards
OF 100000.
PERSONAL.
VII. Vanderbilt viii leave New York for
Mexico next week.
William Baldwin, chief commissioner Of
highways Of PhIadelpLia, dropped dead in
that city.
Mr.. J. II. and Miss 4. J. Langtry, the brother
in-law and sister-in-law Of the famous English
actress, have arrived in New York.
Mayor Grace Of New York, has decided to
refuse the application Of Salmi Morse for q
license for his new hail, in which he expected
to produce the Passion Play.
Congressman Perry Belmont was rendered
complimentary dinner at Dclmonicos, New
York, on Saturday, by number Of prominent
young Democrats.
DR.. Charles Porterfeld Erauth. D. D., IL D.
vice-proyOst Of the University Of Pennsylvania
professor OF mental and moral philosophy, died
IN Philadelphia on Tuesday.
President Arthur's Christmas table bore
huge platter Of roast beef the choicest beef Of
Iowa's famous Crimson Herd. GENT to him with
the compliments Of the state by ySenator Allison.
Professor A. Il. FetterolC who was last week
elected president Of GiraGd College, has bgcn
vice-president Of that institution for two years,
and acting president since the death Of Dr.
Allen, He is iorty-eight years old. native Of
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, q graduate
q stfvpft Difay-p has hrgp f,rf.-iFgI,t fr
seyera. saninarics.
Herr Johann Most, the notorious Nihlist,who
recently arrived from Europe made "a speech
in Chicago last Friday night, during which he
said that when the people got the upper hand
they stopped killing; the0uiy thing TO be done
was 10 keep on killing; people here must kill,
must open banks and stores and help them
selves TO whatever they wanted, and bankers
and capitalists must be set at work on the
streets. His talk was received with the most
upT0ariOus applause.
POLITICAL.
Governor Cleveland was inaugurated Mt Al
hanv, New York, on Monday. There was no
public display of any kind.
The Indian Rights Association of Philadel-
phia has been permanently organized by the
adoption Of a constitution and The election of
officers with Wayne MacNeagb as president.
The object Of the association is to secure to the
Indian the same rights and privileges as are
enjoyed by American citizens and the matter
Will be brought TO the attention Of Congress-,