Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-19
AlsSOLCcELY RUINED,
James Marshall s. Co.'S Failure Reduces "a
Wealthy Family TO fOver,y.

James Marshall s. Co.'S Failure Reduces a
Wealthy Family TO Poverty.
At Pittsburgh sad feature of the fail
ure of James Marshall & Co., which was
not ascertaincd until Wednesday, IS the
absolute ruin which it entails upon a
family once among the wealthiest in the
city. The widowed mother and young
sister OF Mr.. Marshall are left without
cent of their own. On Sunday night Mr..
Marshall said that all the money he had
was in his pocket, and with smile he
held out to a friend some silver amounting
to sixty cents. The honest, straight
forward manner in which Mr.. Marshall
has acted, and his evident desire to pay all
the debts he can without regard to the
consequences to himself, has excited a
great deal of sympathy toward him, aud
will tend to tho happiest solution of the
troubles possible under the circumstances.
1t is stated on good authority, that in
| order to realize as much as possible for
MIR. Marshall, the banks holding his pig
| iron certificates will place the whole
| amount in the hands of syndicate, to be
disposed of at not less than market rates.
| This will be of great assistance to MIR.
Marshall, and will also prevent the break
in the price of pig metal, which was feared
Tuesday.
DOrsey's ratal shot
Fuller accounts of the distressing acc;-
dent on Monday night, in Montgomery,
Ala, in which Thomas Dorsey shot his
wife, mistaking her for a burglar, say :;
"There have been several thefts lately
committed about DOrsey's promises. At
midnight he heard noise on his piazza
which soon ceased, to be followed, how
ever, by second sound like footsteps.
He rose, grasped his pistol, and
started toward the outer door. When he
reached the hall he say a figure and fired.
He was Mortified to hear his wife exclaim
Darling, you have shot me-" lie had
believed her to be in bed asleep and did
not suspect her presence in the ball. The
fatal shot passed through the liver and
stomach. Mrs. Dorsey was conscious to
the last and told the neighbors and
relatives, who were called in, g. don't t
wish anything done to my darling hus-
band, for he knowingly wouldn't have
done it," Medical assistance was at hand,
bu5 it was of no avail and tho poor woman
died about daybreak. What makes this
gloomy affair still worse is the fact that
the unfortunate lady expected to become
a mother in a few weeks. Dorsey is al
most distracted. They lived happily to-
! gether, had been married two years, and
had no children"
Expensive Georgia Pastimes.
One year ago Michale Berni an Italian
image vendor peddling wares in Douglass
county was arrested by w. S. Lindley,
Sheriff John Vandergriff, and Charles
Camp, prominent citizens of the county.
They broke Berni's images, took him into
the court house, spat upon him, rolled
him in on the floor, and when they were
exhausted with this they all sat down on
him at once, singing songs and telling
rude jokes. He staid in bed 1G days, and
at the end Of that timo was able to get to a
train to come home only by being trans.
ported in a chair borne by two stout
negroes. The parties being in official
positions, the grand jury refused to indict.
The Italian then employed counsel to
bring suit against the persons named in
the United States court. Mr.. Hugh
Angler acted as interpreter, and it has
progressed rapidly. The defendants set
up for defense that if they did as charged
they were too drunk to know what they
were doing. The jury brought in YER
dict for 81, $50 damages.
! Murdered In Her House.
Ellen Hallassey, aged 65 years, was
found dead in her house, in East Taunton
Massachusetts,, yesterday morning, with
indications that she had been murdered.
She was lying with her head in a tin basin
and surrounded by pools of blood, and
with hole ih her forehead. VIM. Flynn
and two sons of the woman who had an
alteration during the night have been ar
rested. A later dispatch says that an
autopsy shows that Mr.. Hallasey's death
was caused by suffocation. The suppose
tion is that she rolled from lounge,
striking her forehead on the basin, &" and
| that she was either stunned or too drunk
| to raise her head"
Minor Matters.
The supposed "dynamite cartridge +"
found in the cellar of New York manu-
factory, few days ago, turns out to have
been nothing but glucose.
Navigation is now open from Quebec to
the sea. The water in the St. Lawrence
at Montreal has subsided two feet, and
there is no longer any apprehension of
floods.
Herr Most, the Socialist, delivered a
harangue in Washington last night, tho
greater part Of which was devoted to de.
fencing himself against newspaper cen.
sures. He wound up by advising tho
workingmen in this country to organize
for the securing by force, il necessary,
their rights against the Entertainments Of
capital. s
Indian Camp Fires BlazlDg.
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