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Year: 1879

UNFORTUNATE CONDITION OF NAN AND HIS
coMRADEs-AN APPEAL IN THEIR BEHALF
FROM PAUL BoNToN.


PrrrsBURo. Feb. ~. 1879
To THE EDITOR THE HERALp:-


In your issue of the 2lst the public are made &C.
quaintod with the deplorablo condition of man"
and his comradcs--lads who have distinguished
themselves in their humble surroundings In a cause
that commends itself to the whole community
This is more to be regretted there actually
excuse for any delay stint In the arrange
ments of the corps. I remained In New York
two weeks my time in order to see tine
work finished according to my idea. This might have
been accomplished had 1t not been for the time lost
In holding committee meetings and adjourning with
out action After the new society took hold OF 1t the
work passed temporarily out of my hands, and
supposed they would have energy enough to push
the matter through. The boys have good rea-
son to be dissatisfied, as they have refused many
tempting offers in the theatrical line at better pay
but, to their honor they have stuck to the cause
they have chosen for their life-work


wish to remind the citizens OF New York that the
subscriptions lately raised not for the boys in
dividually, but for a general society fund. The
boys have genuine merit and should have more en-
couraeeinent by individual benefit. am only wait
Ing the end of the voyage start tomorrow morn
ina to prove that their confidence In me IL not mis-.
placed by returning 10 their help.


PAUL BOYToN.
Year: 1879




During her lifetime the late Laura Keene became
indebted to Mr.. L. 7. Little for about 500. for
which Mr.. Rossin, her son-in-law. became responsi-
BILE. About Ave years since Mr.. Little had the debt
put in the form Of judgment against Mr. Rossin.
but until some two months ago execution
issued thereon At that time deputy sheriff walked
into the residence of Mr. Rossin much to the laters
surprise who asserted that he had recollection of
any process having been served him in the action.
As the Judgment stared him in the face however, Mr.
Rossin assented to settlement by his wife giving her
individual note binding her personal estate for 81 ooo
payable in sixty days. The sherif's man then
Withdrew from the premises but Mr.. Little
refused to give satisfaction OF the judg-
ment until after payment OF Mrs. Rossns note. On
the part of the judgment debtor it is claimed that
the acceptance of the note extinguishment of
the original debt while the part Of the judgment
creditor it is claimed that the note merely
cepted additional security and intended to operate
stay of proceedings on the Judgment until there
should be default in Its payment Upon this state OF
facts motion made yesterday. before Judge
Sinnott, in Marine Court. Chambers, the part OF
the judgment debtor. for order compelling the
judgment creditor to satisfy the judgment of record
After long argument the Judge took the papers.
serving his decision.
Year: 1879

nation, cyclopedia of what that class call
knowledge, but which is really, in large de-
gree, misinformation.


The tongue is not only an evil when it lies,
but very often when it gives utterance to the
truth. The truth is not always to be spoken;
never unnecessarily to the injury Of neigh
Dor. Neither should 1t be used in a way to
cause unnecessary pain. The golden rule il
lustrates this point admirably, and if people
would do unto others as they would have 9th
ers do unto them, the scourge of which we
write would prevail in a very mild form.


1t may be remarked that the real gentleman
or lady, or to use better terms, the real mar
or woman, win not gossip at all, and when
you meet gossip it win always be safe to
conclude that the person is sadly deficient in
education or in moral perception, or both, and
is safest at u respectable distance.


Job was greatly afflicted. He lost his chill
dren, his focks and his herds; he was cover
ed with boils; he had indisereet friends who
tortured him, and wife who tempted him;
but the assurance that he would be protected
against the ''scourge Of the tongue pust, in
the midst of his bodily and mental sufferings,
have been a great comfort. Cincinnati
Weekly Gazette, 1st inst.
Year: 1879

With the largest assortment Of wood type
in the State and the best cylinder presses, We
can execute, at the shortest notice, any style
or dae Of Poster, Programme, Handful or
Dodger that may be desired..
Year: 1879

With large fonts Of type, ranging in size
from NonpaEeil to Plea, the most perfect book
pres and well appointed bindery, we have
facilities for this special class Of work possessed
by few Offices in the West.
Year: 1879

SAN Francisco, Feb. 1S.-About 3
o'clock this afternoon the ferry steamer
Ell Captain and Alameda, plying between
this city and Oakland Point. collided in
mid passage A dense fog prevailed and
the boats were close to each other before
they could be seen. The bow of the FL
Captain struck the Alameda on the port
quarter shattering her guard and rail, but
doing her no serious damage. The port
bow of the FL Captain was crushed in and
she filled and sank rapidly, The greatest
terror and confusion prevailed. Some of
the passengers jumped on board the
Alameda. Others sprang into the water. In
a few moments the steamers drifted apart
and lost sight of each other 10 the fog. The
FL Captitan sank to the hurricane deck
and drifted rapidly towards North Point
in the strong ebb tide. The Harbor
Commissioners tug Gov. Irwin, which
was in the vicinity, piloted by the cries and
screaming of whistles. steamed at once to
the rescue and picked up those struggling
in the water. 1t is impossible az present
to statet the loss of life, if any. Many are
of the opinion that all were saved, but
others say some must have been lost
Year: 1879

Deputies Knocked at spattenhubers cell door, Prisa
and prisoner arose from the table at once and pre-
pared for the journey the scaffold spattenhuber
turned pale and trembled but he crowded back the
tears from his bright blue Is he reached for his
dark frock coat in the corner. All he desired was
glass OF ice ter. which he quickly drank. Father
kuhlmann put on black gown and royal purple vel
Vet and gold stole The procession then moved down
the corridor, Sheriff Deininger and Deputy Bowman
leading, followed by the condemned. who carried
an ebony crucihx. By his side was the priest re-
peating prayers Prison Physician Lineaweaver and
Clerk of the Court Ebur and the jury inquest fol-
lowed. Spattenhuber had nothing to say, but he
thanked the Sheriff very kindly in voice not above
whisper. He cool and collected after the good
bys. The Sheriff personally adjusted the moose. say-
ing "Spattenhuber will draw the knot very tight;
it will be better for you. The knot was very tightly
drawn.


After the white cap had been placed over his face
the Sheriff the last to decend, and when half
way down the stairs he struck the knob of the trap
The floor of the scaffold parted and dropped aud
Spattenhuber was launched into eternity. His
body trembled and shiyered his soul
went to his Maker. There was violent
contortion. and the death was very easy.
About two hundred people were present. The body
put into y walnut coieu and locked in the base.
ment of the Catholic Church. The burial will bs
private and will take place tomorrow in the Catholic
cemetery. Spattenhuber died without murmur.
The prevailing sentiment in this community Is that
he should not have been hanged; that it was only
another judicial murder.
Year: 1879

IT WAHHINGTON, July ., I515s


The Interior Department is to-day in receipt Of
official information that white men during the past
few weeks have stolen about seven hundred horses
from the Indians at the Red Cloud Agency and run
them across tho Nebraska line The state author.
tiles are doing nothing to prevent similar raids upon
the lndians property. and the military autho oritcs,
account OF the Posse Comitatus law of year,
stand by without intercepting or pursuing tho
marauders, although the stolen horses are driven
right past Camp Sheridan and Camp Robinson on
the way to market to the horse thieves corrals
NO ARMED FoRcK.


The Indian Agent having armed force at his
command is powerless to stop tho dcpredations and
for the present they seem likely to continue. The
Indians, Notwithstanding their Keen sense of injury,
arising from this want of adequate protection ani-
fest no symptoms Of insubordination. but remain
entirely pesceable aud are beginning to devote them
selves to farming The Spotted Tai Indians within
In the Same way.
Year: 1879

II n complete list could be made Of all the
insane persons who ut one time or another have
undertaken to initiate the sacrifice OF ABRAHAM.
"a reported in the Bible. it would be very curl
Gus reading. and its length would probably
ustOuish those whose attention has never been
drawn to this queer phase OF mental dcrango-
ment. Tho case oi the crazy Massachusetts
man whosacrincod his little daughter on Thurs
day thrusting her through with a knife and
announcing to his Mortified neighbors that in
three days she would be restored to life. is not
the first Of the sort in this country, though it is
one Of the worst.
Year: 1879

men took up position at the stable door while one
OF their number placed himself where Blair said
to have spoken to his wife after the shoot
ing. AT the point ia front OF the door where
this scene is alleged to have passed the vine
leaves the trellis, though now withering. still
cluster thick that doubts were expressed to
whether any one could have seen through them.
There is one part however. which is almost bare of
leaves but this is not in line with the door
OF the house. The point where the hammock was
swung is at the side of the house. aud the
heavy branches of tho fr trees descend to within
few feet of the ground they obsruct the view from
the little lawn which extends from tho front round
side OF the house facing the roadway but cut
OF from the rest ot the grounds by clump OF fir
trees. Considerable time spent by the Jury III
taking observations at this point. some OF the
witnesses for the defence were in this part OF the
grounds at the time of the shooting and their evil
dence is likely To exert important influence on
the verdict The laundry. tue front perch. the DIM
ing room door and the room where tho
constable got tho revolvers were visited in
turn. During their stay the jury examined
every point likely to throw light the
circumstances OF the shooting, and no doubt their
visit will help them to form a sound judgment on
the merits OF the case.


State Prosecutor Abeel, Mr.. Parker. counsel for
the defence. and Judge Depne also visited and ex-
aminei the house AID grounds. but no communca-
ton with the Jnrymen was permitted.
Year: 1879

A light frost was visible in spots
this morning, both within the limits
of the city and in the country beyond.
In some places it wilted sweet potato
vines, and in others they-aro as fresh
and green as ever Slight indications
of the hoary visitor were noticed at
intervals along railroad irons. 1t was
not much of a frost, however, as many
persons rose with the dawn and made
earnest search without being able to
find a speck of the long looked for and
doubly welcome purifier.
Year: 1879

Our absent citizens should not re-
turn for the present. Wait until DR..
Thornton, of the city board of health,
announces that it is safe to do so. As
yet we have had a mere touch of frost,
and though the northwest wind has
been Of a most purifying nature, yet it
may turn warm a few days hence and
cause the fever to spring up again.
The temperature was lower this morn
ing than at any other time, and it
barely touched 39', Last year it went
Year: 1879

This journal is not opposed to pub
lie improvements Of any character,
sewerage included but it is most
earnestly opposed to the construction
of any system of improvements that
will entail an additional tax of more
than one per cent per annum on the
present assessment Sewerage, paved
streets, an improved public landing
everything that will facilitate com
merce, or cleanse and beautify the city,
arc good things, and the LEDGER will
approve and advocate any plan looking
to their structure, provided it is de-
vised here at home and does not aim
TO have works Of such magnitude built
all at once. We have first class engi
neers here, who are familiar with the
situation and understand the needs of
the city better than those new absent
or not of US. Men like j. B. Cook,
Captain A. ]. Murray and others may
be consulted to advantage, and the
contemplated Improvements can be
commenced during the present win
ter, but it will be folly to at
tempt their completion between
now and next summer. We
must pay as we go sewer and pave
one street at time and not levy an
improvement tax Of more than one
per cent. upon that we are now pay
ing. A higher rate will be more
ruinous than the sickness has been.
There is no certainty that when all of
the proposed improvements are com
pleted, that we can keep yellow fever
away. The highest, cleanest and
most beautiful places have felt its
fatal breath with as much or more
virulence than we have done, and the
town is no more likely to be saved
from another visitation of the malady
by sewers to cost half a million Of
money than it will be by the half q
dozen thousand dollars worth Of lime
and copperas water which has been
scattered under the sills Of our houses
and poured on priyy seats by the Ma
tional board of health during the pas
summer. The recent meeting Of
Memphians at St. Louis and Nashville
to discuss sewerage and sanitation
developed no feasible system which
this journal can support. We wan
no jobs fixed up abroad. When oul
people return home and the subject
can be properly considered by tbosc
now present as well as those away if Z
reasonable proposal is made to built
sewers and pave highways the LEDGE
will vigorously support such proposal
1t is prepesterous, however, TO talk
about q tax of from four to seven pei
cent.
Year: 1879

1O' below that, and yet a number of
those who came back suffered from
fever the first succeeding warm spell.
1t will be better to wait until we are
favored with a frst-class freeze, than
it will be to come back too soon.
There is no danger in business houses
being opened up by employees who
have had fever in former years, but
there is great danger for the unaccli-
mated to come into the city to stay
over night.
Year: 1879

mason weekly CALL


On Friday, the 18th, DR.. Williford
got off the Memphis bound train at
this point and swOre out warrant for
the arrest of lady on her way to
Memphis. The warrant was sworn
out on the grounds of an attempt to
violate the quarantine law. The lady
went to the hotel and was not arrest
ed. On Sunday Mr.. j. Brown was
arrested and taken from the train at
this place on the same grounds, paid
the cost of the suit and left here on
foot soon after for Memphis. We
would like to know if the board of
health has the right to arrest a party
thirty-six miles from Memphis for
violating or attempting to violate the
quarantine law. If they have, the
railroad should not sell tickets to
Memphis. Both of the above named
parties had tickets to Memphis.
Year: 1879

tical jokes. The old man looked At
the situation with a practical pair Of
glasses, and reported at the Office Of
the County Court and purchrssd a
license. On the way home his called
on a lawyer and asked how he should
proceed with the general assmbly man.
The lawyer replied SECT cowhide
and lay it on good the first sight YOU
get at him" The man of legal lore
thought very little of the advice he
had given his old friend and client.
and was astonished at the straightfor-
ward manner in which it was carried
out. The old man purchased a raw
hide, and upon meeting the legislator,
made good use of it. He held him by
the throat and administed genteel
dose of cowhiding to him. 1t was ap-
proved by every one, and the practical
joker acknowledged that he did not
get blow amiss, and that he richly
deserved every blow the old man gave
him.


The old couple were married again
and continued life after the same old
happy fashion, and it was ever after.
ward regarded as a dangerous pro.
ceeding to play off joke on a Green
river couple.
Year: 1879

Holly Springs South.l


We rather think Memphis will have
to rub out and begin anew" We
have sometimes heard paper calcuIa-
tons rather unfavorably spoken of.
But, while we would not treat with
disrespect the figures of the excellent
Mayor Flippin, we are a good deal
puzzled to verify them, and see how
he is to get a valuation of $20,000,000
out of an insolyent city, whose prop
erty at a valuation of $10,0O0,0O0 will
not pay three per cent. on the invest
ment. Two per cent taxation without
an income to pay with is something
burdensome = and paying a million
back taxes in addition, BY real estate
owners already in arrears only because
their incomes would not pay their
taxes, must prove a rather uphill
business.
Year: 1879

No appointment to the German Mis-
sion asyet been made, nor is there any
intimation on that subject further than
the remarks of a chose personal friend
Of the President, who says that the
President will make no appointment
without consulting Secretary Evarts.
and that if it shall be determined to
make the selection from Pennsylvania,
Governor Hartranftmay be appointed,
and if from the distant West. ex-
Governor Ramsey, of Minnesota, and
if from New York, Ex-Governor Fen
ton is likely to be preferred though
this cannot be said with as much prob
ability as in the other two cases. The
gentleman added that there are, among
those whose names have been published
in connection with the mission. gentle
men who will receive no executive con
slderation, and that several days may
elapse before anything definite can be
known on the subject.
Year: 1879




THE Massachusetts, courts have de-
cided a case of more than ordinary
interest to mill owners and their en-
ployes, in which it is held that it is
not the duty of mill proprietors to
their servants employed in a building
which is properly constructed for Or
binary business carried on within it,
to provide means of escape, Or to in
sure the safety of the servant from the
consequences Of fire not caused by his
negligence. The issue was raised in
the case of Ellen Jones against the
Granite Mills Company, at Fall River,
in whose mill a confagration occurred
September 10, 1874, with terrible loss
Of life. Plaintiff was an employe of
this corporation, and brought action
of tort to recover for injuries which
she received at the time of the fire
through her inability to escape from
the sixth story of the burning mill
except from the gable window.
Year: 1879

NASHVILLE American. When an
old ring political trickster and CON
troller of the destinies of rings and
cabals, like Mackey, can die grace
fully, and say, / do not fear death
for | have wronged no man "-es-
pecially when he had the forged vote
of Florida on his conscience-it
ought to make us all take cheerful
view of death. Death is grim mon
ster, and the best and holiest shudder,
if they do not quail, at his approach
but it seems that, by diligence and de-
votion, man may acquire con-
science on which even death can have
no impression. The deaths of these
burning and shining lights afford a
great deal of comfort sometimes, to
the living. Pity if we do not find
some posthumous paper on Holy
Living and Dying by a Pennsylvania
ring politician.
Year: 1879

fOftiNnu Argu1.l


The death of Mrs. Sabina R. Nudge
of Maine, was melancholy in the ex-
treme. Previous to the death of her
husband, who was killed in the war of
the rebellion, she was in afluent cir
cumstances, and moved in the first
circles, but being subsequently in re-
duced circumstances she was Obliged
to resort to employment below her
former station. She found in Bruins
wick and Bath such employment, and
being high-spifited and proud lady
entered into it under an assumed
name, yet was obliged to draw her
pension by her true name from the
agent at Concord, N. H. She for
warded her usual voucher for the De-
cember payment, and soon after was
surprised to hear that her pension was
stopped and that a government detec-
tive was upon her track because of
her living under an assumed name.
She fed, and fear of exposure SO
seized upon her mind that she became
frenzied, and death has now relieved
her suffering.
Year: 1879

PEOPLE living in the South and West
are exposed to the dangers Of fever and
ague, bilious and malarial fevers. They
are equally liable to be attacked by dysen-
terry, cholera and similar diseases. They
should take especial precautions against
these dangers, and in no way can they do
so more surely than by purifying the blood
and strengthening and toning up the sys-
tenn with Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic. III L
an unfailing remedy for all malarial dis
cases and cholera disorders.
Year: 1879

Louisville NeWs.l


Many years ago member of the
general assembly from a Green river
equity, a lawyer by profession, conclud
to play off a practical joke while on
duty.


1t was then the order of the day to be
divorced by an act of the legislature
The lawyer selected an old and happy
couple who had united their destinies
some forty or more years before, and
had climbed the hill of life together,
had kissed and were joyful at its sumit,
and were tottering down its declining
steep, hand in hand, to sleep together
at its base, Their happiness was un-
bounded, and they were gladly drifting
along through their daily routine Of
duties, justly proud of each other,
and much more proud of their children
and grandchildren, with no thought of
a separation or a cessation of their
union. The member Of the legisla-
ture, with nimble fingers and facile
quill, drew up their petition for d.
vorce and presented it to general as
sembly; it was promptly acted upon,
and a divorce was granted to the old
couple without their knowledge.


After the adjournment of the gen
eral ASSEMBLY, the acts were scattered
around quite generally, and had fallen
into the hands Of the friends of the
old couple. They were shown the
acts which concerned them and were
thunder-struck. They made inquiries
about it and found it to be the work
of their friends clothed with legisla.
tive hoGors and procliyities for prac-
Year: 1879

DEAN STANLEY says that the
Americans are jolly good fellows, but
he cannot refrain from making the
usual illusions to the newness of the
country. That we are young people
who deserve encouragement for hav-
ing done SO well, is cardinal article
in the Englishmans creed.
Year: 1879

An increase Of 1880 gold deposits
in weeks time means a great deal of
money withdrawn from business either
from want of investment or because
of a want of confidence in invest
ments. In the condition of business
In England there are enough bor-
rOwers, just as we had here for many
years, but few lenders. Capitalists
prefer to let capital lie idle to risk,
for more care is taken in investing
than in ordinary times.
Year: 1879

DEAN STANLEY has undertaken a
hard task in promising to prepare an
inscription for the stone that is to
mark the spot where Andre was exc
cuted and buried. He could more
easily write a volume of satisfactory
and edifying sermons than a three-line
epitaph that will not affect the public
mind unpleasantlY. ......
Year: 1879

ROCHESTER, N. Y, January GA
passenger train left for the East about
noon, the first railroad communication
in any direction in three days. One
track is now open at the scene of Fri
days accident, seven miles east of
here.
Year: 1879

Satisfactory experiments have been
made with the electric light in Paris,
during a night snow storm, and addi-
ditional ones viii follow when the
next thick fog occurs, in which gas
will be Of little or no avail. Should
the electric light render objects visi-
bic to the distance Of even sixty OF
seventy feet, it will be used henceforth
at all the most populous points Of the
streets.
Year: 1879

SAID Mr.. Beecher, in his Sunday
sermon on the dominance of destruc-
tiveness in this age: Look at the
feeling of society toward those who
have done wrong. 1t is not that Of
sympathy or regret. The feeling is,
Crush him trush himp Or, as the
lower portion of society tersely ex-
presses it: Serve him right, damn
him He knows how it is himself