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Year: 1877




A mysterious and CHASTITY murder was
committed soon after III o'clock last
night, in the rear Of No. a. Baxter St. a
collection Of tenement houses known az
Bottle Alley. Officer Clark was still in
vestigating the circumstances Of the stab
bing Of an Italian organ grinder. AZ No
33l Baxter street. when he was informed
that a man bad been killed in the same
block. Following the crowd into the
dark underground passage tho officer
came upon n hideous object Stretched
upon the tagging was the body Of n man
almost devoid Of clothing. and covered
with blood. The dead man lay upon his
back and seemed 10 be almost cut 70
pieces. Great gashes were visible across
the breast and abdomen. and the hcsh
hung in shreds aud drippcd with blood
The body looked a. IL il had been repeat.
edly hewn and gashed with a knife
Around the courtyard we're pools Of
blood and parts Of clothing. showing that
there had been a violent struggle


The officer looked for the persons who
had committed the deed. bat no one
could be found. The alloy was deserted,
and the tenement houses around ID ap-
peRred TO have no occupants. AZ the
northeast corner Of the courtyard the
officer saw lamp burning In a room. and
following up q stream Of blood. found
that Il led 10 dismal cellar In which
the dead man bad undoubtedly been
murdered. Descending by n rickety
stairway, the officer found himself in a
wretched room. which seemed 20 be used
as sleeping apartment Several cots
were stretched along the walls Beer
kegs and glasses showed that the occu.
pants Of the room had been drinking. and
the confused and disordered appearance
OF everything proved that a iight had "a.
ken place. In a room above the cellar
the officer who had by this time been re.
inforced by officers from ncirhborinR
posts, found four men and n woman, al
Italians, who were trying 20 hide them.
selves and Immediately arrested thetn
None Of the people living in other rooms
in the alley could give any account Of
the murder The officer searched in
every part Of the tenement houses. but
no one would admit that he had seen the
affray, OF could give any particulars as to
the dead man.


The five prisoners were taken 10 the
Fourteenth Precinct Station House.
where they could not make their names
ineligible. except the woman. who said
she was called Ferroni. Speaking in
half broken English. she said 70 Tribune
reporter: The dead mans name Il Nj
chael Michaello. lie was a rag picker.
lie lived under my room in the cellar.
with four other rag pickers They also
sold stale beer Tonight | heard them
all quarrel One said, III kill you n you
drink my beer Soon heard men run.
ming looked out and saw Michaello'a
body on the pavement The dead man
has a WIFE but / don't know where she
is."


The woman finally gave the names Of
the four Italians as Buiisllo. Castachi.
Silvcsto and Antonio. Sho also gave
such descriptions OF them a. will enable
the police TO arrest them. No weapon
could be found near the murdered man,
and IL Is thought that the fatal knife was
carried of by tho murdcrcrs.


Bottlealley has been the scene Of q
number Of murders, but the police can
remember none In which the victim has
Year: 1877

No paper on our exchange list has
been a more blind and foolish indorser
OF the treason Of Hayes, than the wIl.
mington Journal Now that Conover
and Patterson have to limited extent
done as Hayes has done. the Journal
howls 1t says:


As to the merits Of Buffers case, we
have nothing to say; but the course Of
Patterson and Conover is in direct oppo-
sition to the wishes of those who placed
them in the highest branch Of the Ma
tional Legislature When a man is
elected TO a responsible position and be-
trays the confidence Of those who honor
ed him by their votes. he is no longer
worthy OF their respect One Of the
worst features of the whole transaction
lies in the fact that Mr.. Conover was
elected TO the Senate largely by the col
ored vote, and while an important ques.
tion was pending he desired TO leave the
Senate chamber, and paired off with a
cOlored Republican Senator. First, he
apostatized. and then paired his vote
against a colored man from his own sec.
tion Of the country who had too much
good sense to become q traitor to his
party.


And again:


A man that will not stand by his party
especially when il is in the right, and
when there is a contest for supremacy in
the highest legislative branch Of the
Government, will sell his birth right for
q very small sum OF money.


That is what we have claimed all the
time. when speaking Of the treason Of
the President. The Journal still mani
tests q disposition, while eondemning lit
tie apostates, to cling to the boss traitor.
IL says:


While the Kellogg case was under con-
sideration Senator Patterson made an
unwarranted attack upon the President
which, however. had but little effect He
charged Mr.. Hayes with infidelity to his
party and desertion Of those who had
elected him.
Year: 1877

Last week young man named
Learned, from Boston. committed sui
eide at the Gibson House in Cincinnati
He was in the employ Of firm of wool
dealers in Boston. He had been on a
long drunken spree. He got in bed, put
a pistol to his breast, and shot himself
through the heart
Year: 1877

with instructions to bring In . sealed verdict Yester-
day the opening OF the the jury stil un
decided to the guilt OF the prisoner
On being asked by the Court II they required any in
70 aid them In their deberatons one OF the
number inquired II they could hnd a compromise ver-
dict other verdict in act but one OF conviction on
the specific charge acquittaL The Court informed
the juror their verdict must be either the one or the
other Another juror asked for instructions oa inc
law Of evidence, another to the credibiity
to bo attached the witnesses, and yet
another informed the Court that they could not by any
possibility agree verdict Judge Blatchford gave


the necessary nsructions but informed the juror who
said thcy could moi agree that he would send them
back their for further deliberation. They had
already been locked up from O'Clock Friday alter.
noon, and now they are again retired looking weared
after their long nights vigil and considerably crest.
falcn at the prospect Of another nights lookup put
this they evaded by again coming into court alter
brief absence with verdict OF guilty with recon-
mendaou TO the clemsncy OF the Court for tne prs.
oner. The verdict being recorded Judge Biatchlord
informed the retiring jurors that M keeie tne court
officer had ordered for them bountiiui dinner tnen
awaiting them, which he hoped they would ENJOY Win


xest the result Of their long fast The Invitation
and the good things too late they nao no stom
Official pap, but with scan thsnks 10 the woud
host hurrediy left the court room on their way 70
their several hOmeG
Year: 1877

Millions of dollars are lost annually in
the United States, by neglect to paint
iarm wagons, plows, arrows, &c. These
things, II well painted and kept under
cover when not in use, will last three times
as long as they will if not repainted af-
ter two or three years use. ANY farmer
can paint these things. All that is needed
is Venetian red and inseed oil, half boiled
then wash the implement to be paint
ed thoroughly, and proceed to apply the
paint. Even pleasure carriages can be
nicely painted at about one-tenth the cost
when painted by carriage maker. A
farmer says: ''Afler paying twenty dol
lars every other year to the carriage
makers for painting and vanishing my
buggy, and being without the use of
II for fifteen days while at tine shop,
| concluded to inquire into the mat
ter little, believing all that a
farmer can do towards keeping his tools
and farm machinery in order should be
done at home. We too often employ the
Mechanic to mend our harness, when we
can do it quite as well. though at all times
not quite so smoothly. The next time my
buggy needed painting, | called at the
carriage shop, and inquired what they
would paint it for. They would clean and
put on one coat of paint and varuish for
fifteen dollars. and for all necessary re-
pairs in wood, iron and leather, they
would charge at the rate of thirty cents an
hour, and add the value of materials used;
for two coats of paint and one of varnish,
twenty dollars. and two weeks time to do
the work in. | concluded to paint and
varnish it myself, and the result was that
it cost me in paint and varnish only l.50,
and the work was done as well, so far as
| could see, as they would have done it.
| gave it two coats of black carriage paint
and one coat of varnish."
Year: 1877

PHILoSoPHIC.


WASHINGTON, October 10.-The re-
suit of the Ohio election has greatly de-
moralized Republicans here, who gener-
ally charge the Republican defeat on Mr..
HAYES. 1t is evident the President has
few supporters among the office-holders
while they denounce Stanley Matthews
in unmeasured terms as the author of all
the ills which have befallen, or may be-
fall the Republican party. One remark
ed that he was glad the Democrats had
carried Ohio, as the result must he the
retirement of Sherman from the Cabinet.
Another rejoiced because Stanley Mat
thews would be unable to renew his
lease of the Senatorship. 1t was gener-
ally conceded that Pennsylvania would
and New York by not less than double
that majority. The feeling among the
department clerks appears to be that the
Republican party is doomed, and some
who have heretofore been among its
most active and determined supporters
express themselves as thoroughly disgust
ed and Indifferent as to its future.


The President, who saw quite a num-
ber of Congressman and conversed with
them on the subject, said that he had
been prepared for the result, and that it
was therefore not so much of a disap-
pointment to him. He said that no mat
ter what happened or who opposed him
he intended to carry out his civil service
policy. Several of those to whom the
President spoke were rather surprised at
what he said, for they bad been under
the impression from his previous CONVEX
sations that he anticipated republican
success. But if the President was not
surprised Secretary Sherman was.


The election of a democratic Legisla-
ture in Ohio will give another democrat
ic Senator 10 swell the majority on that
side after March A, 1870, and doubtless
before that time more recruits from
Northern States will be forthcoming.


Between thirty and forty Senators and
Representatives arrived to-day.
Year: 1877




Owen Casabianca was a native of
Corsica, ON which island he was born in
the year 173S. His father was Louis
Casabianca, distinguished French pol
itician and naval commander and the
friend of Napoleon. He was captain
at this time of the Orient, one of the
largest vessels in the French navy, a
magnificent ship-of-war, carrying one
hundred and twenty guns and five hun
dred seamen. Of Casabianca's mother
young and beautiful Corsican lady, and
devotedly attached to her son. Owen
was her only child, handsome, manly
little fellow, with her beauty in his
flashing eyes and dusky hair. She died
while he was yet quite young, and when
the green sod was placed above her
grave, the boy left the pleasant valley
under the smiling hills of Corsica to go
with his father and tread the hard deck
of war vessel. Mere child as he was,
Casabianca soon grew to love his fathers
dangerous calling, and became a favor
ite with all on board. He was made
midshipman, and at the early age of ten
years participated with his father in the
battle of the Nile. The ship caught
fire during the action. Soon after, Cap
tain Casabianca, the father. was wounded
by musket ball. Not yet disabled, ne
was struck in the head some minutes
later by splinter which laid him upon
the deck insensible. His gallant son,
unconscious of the chieftain's doom,
still held his post at the battery, where
he worked like the hero he was. He
saw the flames raging around him; he
saw the ships crew deserting him one
by one, and the boy was urged to flee.
With courage and GOODNESS beyond his
years, he refused to desert his post.
Worthy son of Louis Casabianca, he
fought on and never abandoned the
Orient till the whole of the immense
vessel was in flames. Then seeking
refuge on floating mast, he left the
burning ship behind him. But he was
too late. The final catastrophe came
like the judgment doom. With an ex-
plosion so tremendous that every ship
felt it to the bottom, the Orient blew up,
and from among the wreck the next
morning was picked up the dead, man
gled body of the young hero, whose
story, romance and poetry can not make
more heroic than it was.
Year: 1877

Quite an original method of taking a
fort is described in Bldckwoods Maga-
zine. In 1896, a large Russian army be-
sieged the Turkish fort of Azof, which
was situated on plain strongly fortified,
and had a small, but well disciplined
garrison. No common approaches could
be made to it, as the Turkish cannon
swept the level with iron hail In this
case the engineering skill of the Russians
was baffied, but General Patrick Gordon,
the right-hand man of Peter the Great,
and the only one for whose death it is
said he ever shed tear, being deter
mined to take the place at any cost,
proposed to bury it with earth by
gradual approaches. Eiic had a large
army the soil of the plain was light and
deep, and he set twelve thousand men
to work with spades, throwing up high
decentralization of earth wall before
them in advance. The men were kept
in gangs, working day and night, the
earth being thrown from one to another
like the steps to stair, the top gang
taking the lowest place every half hour
in succession. In five weeks the huge
earth wall was carried forward nearly
one mile, until it rose to and above the
highest ramparts, and the earth began
to roll over them. This caused the
Turkish Governor to hang out the white
flag and give in. Had he not done SC
General Gordon would have buried the
fortress.
Year: 1877

FUNERALS as DISEASE FEEDERS


The Board of Health of New York
City declares public or church funeral
of any person who has died of scarlet
fever, diphtheria, measles or whooping
cough dangerous to the lives of such as
may attend who have not had the disease,
and requires the family to limit the at
tendance to as few as possible, and to
prevent the presence, so far as they are
able, of those who have not had the dis
ease of which deceased person died, and
to disinfect the room in which deceased
person was and the body of deceased
person and the clothing and bedding used
during the sickness. The Board also
advises the use of sealed wooden or me-
tallic coffins when the family can afford
the expense.


There is good reason to believe that
disease is occasionally disseminated
through the medium of funerals. We
have at least one fairly authenticated in
stance in this country of diphtheria being
diffused broadcast through the crowding
incident, occasionally, to the last cere-
mony. Fortunately this question is be-
ginning to receive much attention, and
several cases have been reported of late,
where the transmission of the disease
from the corpse seemed highly probable
The Suffolk District Medical Society sent
out four hundred circulars to medical
| practitioners, with view to ascertain the
opinion of the profession on the alleged
danger of permitting public funerals OF
persons who had died from diphtheria
Two hundred and thirty-nine answers
were received; of these one hundred and
forty-three writer's express belief in the
possible danger of contagion at funerals
seventeen believe that there is danger
from funerals in the houses of the dead
but none in churches; twenty-nine fancy
that in the present state of knowledge
there is no justification in prohibiting
public funerals, and eight record cir
cumstances which occurred in their OWL
experience confrmatory of the propo
sition that peril may ensue but the testi
mony these latter advance is not quite
satisfactory. The society, after due con
sideration, recommend that funerals a
the houses of those who have died o
diphtheria should be private, owing t.
possible exposure to the poison of tn
disease.
Year: 1877

Granville Ely, lately arrested in
Middletown, Conn, for stealing coat
belonging to the proprietor of the Gels
ton House, and committed to Jail to
await his trial at the next term of the
Superior Court, has peculiar history.
He is the son of the late Elias Ely, at
one time a prominent lawyer In
New York, who amassed a large fortune
in his practice. Being his only son,
Granville was humored in every con-
ceivable manner by his father, who
allowed him for spending money the
handsome sum of twenty thousand dol
lars year. He spent the summer
months at East Haddam, Conn.,, and
was highly esteemed by all, being con-


sidered immensely wealthy, frequently
giving magnificent banquets at the
hotel, to which he not only invited
every young man in the section, but
many persons from Brooklyn and New
York. At that time he was considered
one of the finest young men in the coun-
try, which opinion was evidently formed
because of his distinguished personal
appearance and the prompt manner in
which he paid his bills. He kept for his
own use four in hand, with which he
would make a sensational dash through
the leading streetsof East Haddam every
pleasant afternoon. In conversation few
were more fluent than young Ely, who
would affably entertain a room full of
guests without the slightest effort, being
most charming story-teller, into which
he would infuse unmistakable witticism
of the highest order. He was indeed a
brilliant young man, and his condition
now will be greatly mourned by his for
mer friends who have been so magnifi-
Gently entertained at his hands. 1t is
thought that he spent over five hundred
thousand dollars for his father, who died
few years since in reduced circum-
stances. A short time after the death
of his father Ely was arrested in New


York for forgery, of which crime he was
convicted and sent to Sing Sing. 1t is
asserted that he has several times been
arrested for petty larceny, and evidently
in his present low condition, he cannot
refrain from stealing anything coming
within his reach. He has changed so
much in personal appearance that he is
scarcely recognizable by those who were
his. most intimate friends eight years ago,
Year: 1877

SPECIMENS of silver ore recently taken
from the Cerro de Pasco silver mines in
Peru show that the submerged portion
of the mountain is very rich, and a
rough estimate shows that a body of ore
will be exposed, by the new tunnel which
Henry Meiggs is to build, worth from
$500, O,OOO,O 900 tos5OO, 900, 900. These mines
have lain under water for fifty years,
and are scarcely known to the present
generation, though they have been
worked for over two hundred and fifty
years. Peru has now discovered that a
tunnel can be built which will drain the
mountain completely, by draining off the
lake from which the water in the mines
comes, and she is so much in earnest
about it that the first loads of the now
submerged ore are expected to reach
Lima in four months. 1t is predicted
that within ten years more silver will be
taken out than from the silver mines in
Nevada
Year: 1877

RECENTLY gang of men working in
the gravel pit on the Grand River Val
ley Railroad, two miles east of Nashville,
exhumed the skeleton of a man. There
is a suspicion that the remains are those
of George Snyder, of Ohio, who mysteri-
ously disappeared when the road was be-
ing built nine years ago. Snyder was a
laborer in the employ of one Mitchell,
who had the contract of grading the road
from Hastings to Vermontville. One
night while at work at or near the place
where the skeleton was found, he re-
marked to chum that he was going to
draw his pay and quit work. He drew
his pay and was never seen afterward.
Year: 1877

worked by horse traction in Northern
Italy. In the streets of the principal
towns, and sometimes ON the roads, tracks
OF granite are laid in the highways. The
surface of these tracks being fat and
perfectly smooth, the wheels of the
vehicles glide over them with the least
possible friction. The conductor of each
vehicle takes care to so guide il that the
wheels always remain ON the granite.
The author of the project maintains that
there is nothing to prevent the granite
lines from being used by carriages driven
by steam-power in like manner as though
drawn by horses.
Year: 1877

A Wisconsin man put bis arm around girl
while they were out riding together, and with
in two minutes it WAS paralyzed. Paralysis is
bad thing, but around here it is considered
pretty mean sort Of a man who isn't willing 70
risk both arms II necessary.
Year: 1877

course, in this vicinity, farmers have
not, a. rule, raised sufficient to carry
them over till next season and to pay
nil theeitr@- but they can
clear Of = good portion of their indebt-
edaess and that they should do with
oat fail. Better to live q good deal.6e
lowour expectations for a year Or two
shall have in Mobiles county as prosper
Gus and well-to-do community Of farm
ers as can be found anywhere in the
West.


It is enough to make man who vot-
ed against paying tho railroad bond
debt blush to learn that three quarts
out of each bushel of wheat raised this
season would pay the debt and wipe
out the stigma Of epudiation. .-
Year: 1877

We notice by some of our exchanges
that Il number of farmers in the State
are building large sheds in which to put
their grain instead of stacking it. The
sheds are made sufficiently high to ad-
NIT a loaded wagon, and grain securely
stored away where it is kept safe from
injury by storm. The advantages of
this plan are several. The grain can lie
cared for more rapidly, is not subject to
bleaching, and when being threshed the
machine can first be placed by the side
of the shed; and afterwards under it,
and the whole be kept from all injury
by storms, Sheds can be very clle;aply
Observation-Disclosures Express.
Year: 1877

plements, and supplies to the wild In
dians who can be induced to adopt \
civilized life, while the poor soldier
who. fought for the Government is left
to shift for himself. Not that we are
advocating Government aid to those
who should be helped West, but that a
plan ought to be adopted by which sim
liar: aid could be extended 70 white
men. s.. Is;
Year: 1877

It Is understood that legislative
ticket for this Senatorial and Repre-
sentative district has been selected.
'Whe tho lucky men are Il profound
secret, hut tho politicians have had
their heads together, and when the
time comes the dear people viii be told
who they are to support. =
Year: 1877

There il evidently good deal OF ex.
citement at the National Capital. Some
OF the Democratic Coigressmen are over
running with bile and spelling for a
chance to discharge themselves. They
will probably unload extensively to-day
In Cabinet circles there was some stir
produced yesterday by an editorialin Don
Piatt's paper Of Sunday, in which he
suggested Governor Hayes assassination.
On this point he harrangued the Wash.
ington bar.room bummers "a follows:


"If a man thus returned to power can
ride in safety from the Executive Man.
sion to the Capitol to he inaugurated, we
are fitted for the slavery that will follow
the Inauguration. We do not believe the
people OF the United States are Of this
sort. We do not believe that they are
prepared, without blow, to part with
their hard earned, blood.stained posses.
siOns. Notice is now served on the citi.
Eens OF Louisiana and South Carolina that
they must care for themselves; how soon
Iamp-posts will bear fruit is for them to
say. II there is law for fraud there is
reason for violence, and TO that We make
our last appeal" -r


The President, whodpes not scare easy,
and the Attorney General, were COUNSEL.
ing together yesterday 10 see what is best
To be done about such an appeal as this to
mob violence on Inauguration day. No
conclusion is announced. We have full
confidence in the ability OF a small
amount OF military to preserve the
peace. A proper disposition OF the
sCOundIel who seeks to precipitate col.
lisiOn on the ilh OF March would be to
walk him up front at the point OF the
bayonet and compel him TO listen to the
inaugural in the presence OF all the pco.
ple-thc detcsted observed Of all observ.
era