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The Cook County herald., 1893-09-30
MOCK TRIAL IN THE TONES.
Conducted by Six Murdersrs AL Under
Sentence Of Death, ~ ss:s5..

Conducted by Six Murderers AL Under
Sentence Of Death. .s.s
The most singular triar on record
was that held in the 'Tombs a few
years ago it was trial by jury, in
which the court and the counsel we're
composed of men under sentence Of
death and literally living in the
shadow of the gallows. After the at
tempted escape Of Danny Lyons and
Danny Driscol1 had been frustrated.s 4
Warden Osborne conceived and put
into execution scheme which made
like attempts out Of, the question.
Murderers' row in the old buildII IIn
was vacated and the ground floor of
the left corridor of the new 'ssten-
day. house fitted up for the recep-
ton and safe-keeping of those doomed
to death according to law. The
warden's idea was novel one. He
had screen of strong wire built be-,
tween each cells door to the win
dows on the opposite side of the
corridor. This gave each convict a
separate space to walk in for exer-7
else. The death watch occupied
chairs between each screen, and the
men were constantly in their sight.
1t also allowed them to see each
other and their visiting friends, and
to converse when they felt in that
mood.
The first to occupy the cells were
six men convicted. of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be-
hanged in the Tombs. They were
Giblin, Packenham, Carolin, Lewis,
Nolan and Carleton. They were ali
executed except Giblin, who killed
q baker named Getz. His sentence
was commuted to imprisonment for
life. Carleton, who was known by
the sobriquet of Handsome Harry,''
who shot and killed Officer Brennan,
was the last to be hanged, and was
the last one executed in the Tombs
Sunday is always the dullest day
In the Tombs, for no visitors are ad-
mitted, and the con 1emned were left
to their own sad thoughts. Giblin
proposed that they try one of their
number by jury, and Carolin, who
chopped his unfortunate wife to
death with hatchet, was singled
out to be tried. 'Oid Man" Packen-
ham, who killed his wife with a pair
OF scissors, was made Judge; Giblin,
district attorney; Carleton, counsel
for the defense, and Lewis and Nolan
the jury. After the consent of Dep
uty Sheriff -Caraher was given the
trial proceeded, every part of the
Judicial programme being minutely
carried out. even to- putting Carolin
on the stand to testify in his own
behalf. !. ,~. - ...~.',*. .eE, J
But despite the. argement of Carle-
ton that it could only be man
slaughter and not murder, the jury
found him guilty without leaving
their seats. The effect on Carolin,
the deputy sheriff said, was painful
and pitiful to witness. He never
raised his eyes while ..Old Man.
Packenham sentenced him to die on
the 2Oth OF August, 1889. From that
day he seemed to weaken and the
authorities were afraid he would
break down completely. Fathers
Pendergast and Galenas, with the
sisters, who were daily in attend
ance, tried to comfort and rally him.
but without avail. The verdict of
his fellows had almost killed him.
In Tho Quarry.
Mike-Arrah, Pat, are ye kilt in
tirely? II ye're dead, shpake!
Pat-No, Mike, Dim not dead
4. fynA 0rno ynA11 r.
The Cook County herald., 1893-09-30
Ev'E:N''TIDE.

The skies are crimson o'er tho void,
Bring back the wanderers to the fold,
From pastures wide. ;, &
The calm OF eve steals over all, =
While ftful breezes rise and fall, -. =
AS IL they sighed a-~
Atar, the chime of tuneful bella :.
Are uttering their soft farewelts s..
4.Et For:eventfde. -
Sweet babes are Graded into rest,
Ere dies the crimson in the west,
Calm, satisfied -
Oh, tender is the gift of sleep.
And silence and the shadows deep,
! . At eVentide!-Sunday Magazine.
The Cook County herald., 1893-09-30
In Tho Quarry.

In Tho Quarry.
Mike-Arrah, Pat, are ye kilt in
tirely? It ye're dead, shpake!
PatNo. Mike, Dim not dead
but Dim spacheless Judge.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-25
THE BOHEMIAN TWINS.

first brought them before the public In
Paris at the "Theatre Imperial de la
Gaite," and is now taking them on a
tour through Europe.
Rosa and Josepha, of whom we pub
lish an engraving. are not we'll grown
for their age, but are delicate and trail.
Their complexion and hair are dark, and
their faces, which are very much alike,
show no traces of their nationality. As
will be seen from the cut, the first i'm
preston is that they are two perfectly
formed individuals with connection ut
the hips, but an investigation proves
that this is not the case; for, although
the upper parts of their bodies are sep
arate, the backbones grow together in
the region of the coccyx. and there is
only one pelvis; strangely enough, how
ever, there are four legs instead of two.
Therefore, We have not two complete
beings that have grown together, but
two half female bodies, so to speak,
that are normally developed Only as far
as the hips. Under the circumstances
separation by means of surgical opera
ton was impossible. When one half OF
this unfortunate double creature dies,
the other sister must soon meet the
same fate. -Illustrirte Leitung.
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servedly popular gentleman, who has re-
sided here all his life. His urbanity and
kindliness of disposition made him fully
qualified, when coupled with his varied
experience. for the work which he has
in hand. Formerly a druggist, doing
good business, he was in 1875 elected as
a magistrate. and since that time up to
November 30th of last year, has united
67s3 couples in marriage. His tenure of
Office, which has been continuous, en-
braces period of sixteen years.
By the advantage which always comes
to those who first enter npon any line of
business, Justice Keigwin has easily
maintained the position OF leader in the
profession of his choice. OF the vari-
ableness of The fee which is his reasonable
compensation for service, it should be
stated that it ranges from 50 to $40, al
though in one case, sucn was the un-
speakable joy of his liberal client, $50
was thrust into the hand of the aston
ished Judge. The building in which his
Office is located is his property, and
is we'll furnished.
There is, however, one other magis-
trate with whom the popular officer
above referred to is required to share
some of the honor and profits of his
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-25
INTERMITTENT DRINKERS.

There would be little use in my describing
what believe to be the cause and the course
of intermittent drinking unless set forth
my experience as to the various methods in
use to check or cure the disease. 1t may be
asked, 'Has not q man q will power4 and
can he not Of his own volition abstain from
what he knows to be simply self-destru,-
tion?" My answer, unhappily, must be that
q man who has once fairly fallen into the
drink habit, whether constant or intermit-
tent, has scarcely any will power while the
fit is on him: and, as I have said, each at
leaves his will feeoler and less able to with.
stand the temptation Of a sedative OF which
he has proved the power and of which he is
too prone to forget the danger.
The intermittent drinEer as soon as he
has abstained for few weeks, forgets the
disastrous effects of his last attack. He be.
heves himself as temperate and discreet q
man as any Of his friends who takes his pint
bottle of claret at dinner and seldom takes
more. He does not see why he should not
do likewise. It Is the hardest thing to con-
vince an intemperate drunkord, who ia able
to abstain for period, that he can never by
any chance become q moderate drinker.
Nevertheless, the principle Of his drinking Is
distinct from that Of a mo 1erate man. Ii
he tries to return to his two or three glasses
Of claret, he Is absolutely certain to 60 on to
his secret nip" Of brandy or Of WHISKY;
and his "nips" will increase, and he will
find himself pack again in the old road to
ruin. The patient, II he really wants to be
cured, must clearly make up his mind that
1t must be total abstinence or self-destruc-
ton, gradual, perhaps but not the less sure
National Review. .l
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-25
WORRY, DRINK AND LUNAcY.

It is no new thing to hear of the close
and the development OF insanity. Accord
inglv we feel no surprise at statement by
DR.. Augustine Planus that large proper
ton OF the cases Of lunacy registered in
Paris of late years are attributable to this
form Of excess. Far mora significant Is his
observation that drunkenness has increased
very markedly in the French capital. This
effect is. Of course, due to variety Of causes.
Among these one is of particular interest
from its bearing upon the neurotic aspect OF
the alcoholic dyscrasia. 1t is the pressure
and worry of overwork, PROBABLY combined
as usual in the like circumstances with ir-
regular feeding and want Of sleep. Though
felt by all classes Of workers. an important
characteristic OF its action as cause OF al
coholism is its increasing influence among
those who labor with their brains Artists,
authors, and especially journalists "a group
Of persons by no means usually given to ex-
cess-are enumerated as having succumbed
to the subtle poison: and this result has,
doubtless with truth, been attributed to the
craving depression OF mental fatigue. 1t Is
not difficult, indeed, to trace a connection
here, and we may accept 1t as warning
that forced labor is ever prone to become
the natural parent of other and worse ex-
cseses The best work, however hard, Is al
ways methodical enough to permit OF timely
rest and Of regular nutrition, and the tull
recognition of this fact is q mere question OF
public utility which we hope to see more and
more widely admitted in practice. London
Lancet.
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will have the head and horns 'of the
deer mounted, and the hide of the Wild
cat made into a rug, and send them to
you."
II is not uncommon for married
couples to return after two years. WIN
the offspring of their union, to exhibit II
to the magistrate. Frequently they
bring other suitors with them to be mar
ried on the spot. ,
But the magistrate has most useful
adjunct in the person of the "matrlmo.
nial AGENT" or Gunner" Or "steerer,
or "bride- -grabber," By which pleasing
terms he is variously known. character
whose audacity was never equaled in the
palmy DAYS of the cab driver at Niagara.
The function of this gentleman is to
serve the groom for consideration, IN
his laborious search for the matrimonial
Office in a strange town; and that the
service is most attentively bestowed can
be attested by anyone at all familiar
with the estimable agents methods.
Twenty years ago magisterlal mar
riaees were rare in this community, but
thereafter, by degrees. the practice grew
until it was not long before the shreWd
official could see IN it possibilities OF con-
siderable pecuniary profit. One OF the
first to lay hold OF the golden cpportun-
ity was Justice Ephraim kelgwiu, de-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-25
ALCOHOL IN SURGERY.

The Journal of lnebriety invites attention
to the "Manual of Operative Surgery by
the we'll known surgeon Of the London Hos
pital, DR.. Frederick TreveR, In which, re.
Ierring to the risks attending operations on
the bodies of drunkards, he says:
"a scarcely worse subject for an opera
ton can be found than is provided by the
habftual drunkard. The condition contra.
indicates any but the most necessary and
urgent procedures, such as amputation for
severe crush, herniotomy, and the like. Ths
mortality Of these operations among alco.
holics Is, It is needless to say, enormous.
Many individuals who state that they dc
not drink and who, although perhaps never
drunk, are yet always taking e. little stimu.
liant in the form Of tnips' and an occasional
glass,' are often as bad subjects for surgical
treatment as are the acknowledged drunk
ards" ....... ......., = :
"Of the secret drinkerS" continues Mr..
Treves 1.-THE surgeon has to be indeed aware.
In his account Of tCalamities Of Surgery,
Sir James Paget mentions the case Of per-
son who was drunkard on the sly, and yet
not 80 much on the sly but that 1t was well
known to his more intimate friends, BIS
habits were not asked after, and one OF his
fingers vas removed because joint disease
had spoiled It. He died in q week or ten
days with spreading cellular Inflammation,
such as was far from unlikely to occur In an
habituabdrunkard. Even abstinence from
alcohol for q week or two before an opera.
ton does not seem to greatly modify the re.
suit. Dwelling on the Immense importance
to an operator of cuItivating "a surgical
hand, the same writer points out that "a
shaky hani may be developed by irregular
modes of living, by the, moderate use Of al.
cohol, and by smoking"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-25
Artificial QuinIne.

Among the great discoveries of the
year 1892 in medicine and science will
be recorded that of artificial quinine.
Scientists have long sought to manufac-
ture artificial quinine 80 that the med
ical profession need not depend upon
the supply of the trees from which the
, drug is obtained for their important
anti-fever medicine. Doctors Grimaux
and Arnaud, of Paris, have succeeded in
obtaining an artificial substance similar
to quinine in its effects, and the method
OF making it is given as follows: The
base cuprein contained in the shrub
RemijIa peduncuata found growing in
Brazil is treated with sodium, and then
the combination thus obtained is treated
with chloride OF methyl. The result Of
this combination is drug that is idcn-
tical with the substance which we know
as quinine. It has the same effect when
given in fevers, and it will answer the
same purpose as the natural product
when applied for other purposes than re-
" ducing the temperature of patients. The
result Of this discovery which has long
been anticipated win be the cheapenipg
OF the drug, and the regulation of the
prices during oil seasons. The dis
covery, however, will lead to more i'm.
portsnt results in the way of enabling
chemists to obtain analogous medicines
of great value.-Yankee Blade. ....
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A Feminine Champion Of the Peoples S
Party.

Mrs Mary Lease, of Kansas, accom-
panied General Weaver on his stumping
tour throughout the country during the
recent Presidential canvas, and divided
the honors with him-winning the lion S
share, according to the Chicago Herald.
In many respects Mrs. Lease is re-
markable woman. Those who have
heard her declare she has the gift of
oratory in marked degree. Her deep,
powerful ard resonant voice commands
instant attention and enables her hearers
to catch every word under circumstances
most trying to public speaker. ~
have heard her," said Congressman.e .elect
John Davis the other day, "speak for
two hours in the open air to an audi
ence that no mans voice, as believe.
could have coupassed. Her tones seem
to cut the air and penetrate to great
distance" 1t is voice that is startling
and controlling. Her style is her own,
the sentences short and strong and
poured out with a volubility rarely
eoualed. It is a torrent of speech
launched at the most vulnerable point Of
attack indicated by her keen intelli-
gence. Her figure on the platform is
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made at the age of sixteen or earlier,
period of life when the ardor of roman
tic sentiment often reaches its culmina
ton, and it is then she begins to bemoan
the requirements of cruel law that
would restrain the one important
step which is ever uppermost IN her
mind. But she may have friendly
ally in bordering commonwealth, the
statutes of Indiana permitting her to
marry at eighteen, and, knowing this,
rather than suffer long period of sus-
pense which might prove fatal to her
future prospects, she is apt to become
the prominent one of two figures who
will seek this friendly Gretna by that
method of procedure commonly recog-
nized as an ''elopement."
Now aud then clients return to make
friendly call on the squire who may
have been instrumental is placing them
on the very pinnacle of martial bliss, or
vice versa. The old gentleman from a
remote county comes 10 bring a gilt OF
afack of potatoes, and to sa; incident
ally that ''it's great pity that that Dir
weddin' of mine an Retecca's didn't
come off forty year airlier." In another
instance, the wife, who had been
schoolma'am writes, "Hezekiah went
out back of our house, in the mountains
last Saturday afternoon and killed a
wildcat that weighed sixty pounds, and
q buck that weighed 2s0 pounds. We
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-25

Office, and while no rivslry exists .5e:'
tween the two gentlemen, who occupy
identical positions, he has no mean COM
petitor in the person of Esquire John
Ware, who formerly held the honorable
position of Mayor of the city. Justice
Ware, who has lived forty-three years in
this community, enjoys the respect and
esteem of all who know him. Twelve
years a magistrate, he has within that
time brought happiness to 1000 couples,
or full 1000 ardent souls.
Incidental to this business Of the
blending of hearts that are adjusted for
heat, cold aud position, it may be said,
like all other prosperous industries, its
beneficial effects are felt by those who
have no direct connection or interest,
such as the railroads, the ferry line and
the like. The principal outside bene-
ficiary, however, is the the county clerk,
whose annual revenue derived from this
source alone is estimated at not less than
two thousand dollars.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-01-25
Weeds rs Big as Trees.

Sage brush is known to scientists as
artemisia tridentata. Most persons who
are familiar with it think of it as an
ordinary weed of small size, and even
so high an authority as the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica refers to it as growing
in "treeless valleys and slopes" 1t will
astonish most persons to know that 1t
sometimes grows to such proportions as
to provide a section of country with
trees of it's own wood, producing groves
of thick-trunked and comparatively tall
trees, instead of mere weeds. Professor
Elwood Meade, the State Engineer OF
Wyoming, while exploring the northern
and central parts of that State last sum-
mer, came upon q district where the
sage brush thrived thus gigantically.
Many Of the sage trees that he saw were
eighteen feet high, with trunks at least
a foot in diameter. This was in the Big
Horn Basin, east of the National Yellow
stone Park and northeast of the Wind
River Indian reservation, where the No
Wood River joins the Big Horn.
Professor Meade returned to Cheyenne
enthusiastic in his praise of the basin
now little known except to the stock
men whose cows range there. It is as
big as some of the older States, and
will provide plenty of water for irriga.
tion from the tributaries Of the Big Horn
River. Several very large irrigable
tracts have been surveyed already. No
railroads yet reach the district, but the
Burlington and Missouri Railroad is
building to sheridan in the county OF
that name, and has employed its agents
to 'sspy out the land" beyond. Profes-
sor Meade had never seen such big sage
brush as he discovered there, but since
his return he realizes the truth of Solo.
mons assertion that there is no new
thing under the sun, because he has been
informed that at some point in California
the same weed "grows to such proper
,tions that the people cut it for cord
wood. SAN Francisco Examiner.
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wrought by this funcronary were rs a
single blade of grass to the whole par
ticle of sod when compared with the e1-
plolts of latter day 'squires that flourish
still, and wax fat in the pursuit OF their
most laudable profession.
From small beginning marriages by
q magistrate have grown to large pro-
portions and are looked upon with favor
by all classes of society, who seem now
to prefer, above religious rites, this
mode of entering upon the marriage re-
lation.
There are good reasons for this pref
erence which it were we'll to explain.
In the first place, such marriages are no
longer looked upon as disgraceful, as
they were formerly held to be by most
persons. There has been radical change
Of sentiment in this direction within the
last decade, 80 that now quite as much
responsibility attaches to one as the
other, and losses sustained by the parson
in the abridgement of perquisites that
were formerly exclusively his have been
gained by the more jovial Squire. In
deed, such are the inroads made upon
the minister's income as to materially
lessen auxiliary earnings that brought
temporal comfort to his household.
Under the laws of Kentucky, which
State furnishes more than ninety per cent.
of those happy pilgrims to this shrine OF
wedlock, girl may not reach the mar
riageable age before twenty-one years,
whereas her debut in society is frequently
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worse, without let or hlndrance, Is
known to al; the reading world.
= But, says a letter from Jetferso nvllle,
Ind, to the Chicago Herald. the pres
tige that was once the peculiar rigos OF
the Gretaa Green of history has its coun-
terpart in America in this city OF goodly
morals, which is the county seat OF Clark
County, and upon whose principal bust
ness street, at almos. any hour OF any day
of any week may be seen motely group
of would-be actors in that great comedy
of loves consummation that is as old as
Adam, and which loses none OF Its In
terest as the years 60 whirling along the
boulevard of time.
: Back in the days when Henry Clay
was the idol of Kentucky and the ad-
mlration of the country at large the
hamlet of Aberdeen, in Brown County,
Ohio, attained to something like motor
iety as a market place for hearts and
hands, the medium through which the
marriage contrsct was executed celng
found in the person of Squire Bessley,
who long since passed on to his reward
for the goo6-.-let it be said in charity
he had done in the flesh in bringing
happiness-transitory, at least-to man
and woman kind. But the achievements
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The "Mint House" Of Boston.

The mint house" il Boston existed
about thirty.four years. All the coins
issued from it bore the dates 1852 OF
1862, the same dies being used, prob.
ably, throughout the thirty-four years OF
coming. Some coins had been made
in Bermuda for the use of the Virginia
colony as early as 1914. Copper coins'
bearing the figure of an elephant, were
struck in England for the Carolinas and
New England in 1854. COINS were also
struck for Maryland, bearing the ethgy
of Lord Baltimore. A mint was estao-
llshed at Rupert, Vt, by legislative
authority in 1885, whence copper cents
were issued, bearing on one side plow
and sun rising from behind hills, and
on the other q radiated eye, surrounded
by thirteen stara.-Bostop Cultivator.