Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-16
LOCAL NEWS.

MT. and Mrs. Henry W. Russell returned from New York city on Saturday evening.
 The fremen on the east side are expecting to go to Parlor Rock Grove August 2d on their annual excursion and picnic.
 A horse of F. Mansfield & Sons ran on Saturday, smashing up the business wagon he was attached to and badly bruising his legs with splinters from the broken vehicle. The splinters were successfully removed by MT. Burns, the blacksmith, and the animal was all right yesterday.
 East Pearl street Methodist Sunday school picnic and excursion to High Rock Grove on Wednesday next. There will be 8 large party in attendance and a good time is ex- pected.
 No church service in any of the churches yesterday afternoon except the First church, ! an unusual occurrence for this place. Several drove down to South End yester- day afternoon to the German picnic which was being held there.
 Henry M. Shannon, bookkeeper for A. l.. Chamberlain $ Co.,, has recently purchased for himself very fine horse and carriage.
 Captain Horace Lanfair and wife, of Balti- more, Md, are sojourning here for few days
 Mrs P. A. Futile and Mrs. Frank I. Foote reached home on Saturday from Sleepy Eye, Minn., where they have been visiting for @ short time.
 J. C. Elmer, the confectioner, had se-
  which laid him up for nearly two days.
 MT. and Mrs. J. J. Dayton visited over the Sabbath in the Housatonic Valley at Falls Village.
 Miss Minnie Bradley returned from Balti more last week where she has been visiting. Rev. s. H. Bray, of the Humphrey street Congregational, preached at the East Pearl street Methodist Episcopal church yesterday morning. A large audience was present who were well pleased with the eloquent dis course listened to.
 MT. J. B. H. Jefferson, the druggist located corner of Broadway and Goffe streets, Balti- more is visiting at the residence of MT. D. D. Mallory, on the Heights.
 H. A. Stevens, the new proprietor of the Lime Kiln works, is shipping several car loads of lime by railroad every week. Busi- ness promises to increase under the new manager.
 Captain Joseph Bradley left hanging on his arbor one night last week section of hose fifty feet in length. The next morning it was gone and nobody seems to know where.
 Mr. William Bridge and daughter, Miss Sarah, of New York city, were present yes terday at the funeral of Mrs. Hallenbeck.
 The schooner Edwin, Captain Silas Ryan master, arrived in New York last week from Barracoa, w. l., with cargo'of bananas for New York parties Captain William We'd more went out as sailing master, as Captain
 
 was very much benefited and by the time of his arrival at his home in Fair Haven on Saturday eveniBg he was nearly we'll again. Captain Wedmore also came up at the same time to Fair Haven, his native home and spent the Sabbath among his former friends.
 MT. s. M. Drew, an elderly gentleman, aged about so years, who resides with his daugh- ter, Mrs. Drew, on North Quinnipiac street and formerly kept grocery store on State near Edwards. while in the city at Russells butter store on Saturday afternoon, was taken with shock and became unconscious Dr. Bellora attended him in the store and MT. Drew was taken to his home. Dr. Rob- erts was called, but all labors were in vain the patient died mot recovering consciousness, at eight o'clock p. m.
 The remains of the late Minnie Kingsbury Hallenbeck, who died so suddenly at Paw tucket, R. l., last Thursday, reached here on Saturday afternoon at half past one o'clock The funeral took place yesterday afternoon at four o'clock from the residence of John R. Kingsbury, father of the deceased, corner of Howard and Sherland avenues. There was a very large gathering of relatives and friends present to pay their last sad respects to the memory of the departed one. Rev. H. c. Hovey officiated and spoke most beau tifully. The choir of the Second church were ite hymn, also a memorial selection entitled ssGone." The floral offerings were beauti- full A pillow with the word Minnie" thereon, a gift from MT. and Mrs. J. Hood; maltese cross from friend, a crown from her for6er Sunday school teacher and class, wreath from friends in Pawtueket, R. I. The bearers were 0. E. Bray, E. H. Crawford E. c. M Hall. A. F. Hemmingway, w. A. Rowe and A. 0. Page.
 A Confession. From the Autobiography of Thurlow Weed" soon
  fin Col
 In 1881 suit for libel, commenced against me by the late General Jacob Gould, of Rochester, was tried at Albany. The alleged libel consisted of charge in my paper that General Gould obtain money from the Grand Chapter, which he gave to Burrage Smith and John Whitney, abductors of William Morgan, to enable them to escape from jus tice. Among the witnesses had subponaed were Simeon B. Jewett of Clarkson, Major Samuel Barton of Lewiston and John Whit ney of Rochester. When the trial Ca report of which will be found elsewhere) was over I invited these gentlemen to sup with me. Our conversation naturally turned upon the question which had absorbed so much of our \ time and thoughts for several years. Late in 1 the evening Major Barton, addressing him. ! self to Whitney said, ''Come, John, make a clean breast of it." Whitney looked inauir- \ ipgly at Colonel Jewett, who, after 8 pause, 1 added, Gree your mind" Whitney, then addressing himself to me in manner which | indicated that Colonel Jewett and Major Bar \ ton were already acquainted with the facts he was about to relate, said that it was un- necessary to go into the early circumstances | of Morgan's abduction, as they were already ! pretty we'll known. ''When," said Whitney, ! -four friends in Canada refused to take care ! of Morgan, the Lewiston people sent word to Rochester that he could not be kept much | longer in the fort, and that we must come to ' Tov n of this information Whitney, who had been with | Morgan from the time he was taken out of f the jail at Canandaigua until he was placed in ! the magazine at Fort Niagara, was again dis patched thither. He continued, 4Simultane- l ousIy the installation of an encampment of Knights Templar drew together, at Lewiston, ! a large number of friends, of many of whom ! the question of what was to be done with Morgan was asked. But the matter was so ! perplexing that no one seemed willing to act | or advise. In the evening, however after we | had been called from labor to refreshment,' Colonel William King asked me to step into another room where found MT. Howard, of Buffalo, MT. Chubbuck, of Lewiston, and MT. Garside, of Youngstown. Colonel King said
 there was 8 carriage at the door ready to take us to the fort, into which we stepped and were driven hastily away. As we proceeded, Colonel King said that he had received in
 struction from the highest authority to deal | with Morgan according to his deserts, and
 that having confidence in their courage and fidelity, he had chosen them as his assistants. On reaching the magazine they informed ! Morgan that the arrangements had been com ] pleted for his removal to the interior of Can ada, where he would be settled on a farm, and that his family would.follow him in &C., cordanoe with the assurance pre- viously given him by Johns. With this assurance he ! walked with them from the fort to the ferry I where 8 rowboat awaited them. The boat | was then rowed in a diagonal direction to the place where the Niagara river is lost in Lake Ontario. Here, either shore being two miles distant, rope was wound several times
 around Morgans body, at either end of which
 8 large weight was attached Up to that
 time Morgan had conversed with them about
 his new home and the probability of being joined by his family but when he saw the rope and the use to be made of it he struggled
 desperately, and held firmly with one hand I fin ffa waIa Of kha boaf