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Year: 1878

IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBONE.l


WASHINGTON, Sept. PA meeting of army Off
GERS win be held on Saturday, at p. m, at the
Office of General D. s. Stanley, Superintendent of
the Recruiting Service in New-YOrk, to organize q
United States Military Institute similar to the
Naval Institute which has its headquarters at the
Naval Academy.


1t is the purpose Of a number Of prominent men,
bers Of the Naval Institute when the Military Inst
tute is organized to propose that the organizations
shall be consolidated into one with ITS headquarters
at Washington, to be known as the United Service
Institution Of the United States and to be devoted
to the advancement of general and professional
education, and the discussion of military subjects
The plan is to model the consolidated institution
somewhat after the Royal United Service Institu-
tion of Great Britain and it is believed that with
its headquarters here, such an organization would
receive substantial sympathy and aid, and quasi
official recognition from the War and Navy De-
partments.


The Naval Institute was established in October,
1873, with about fifty members, ranging from rear
admirals TO Cnsigns, and embracing the staff and
line and now numbers nearly 200 members. Meet
ings are held monthly at which papers submitted
by members are read whether the author is pres
ent OF not, after which discussion ensues on the
subjects treated and the papers and report Of the
discussion are printed and circulated among the
members II is thought that the departments will re-
cOgnize the value of the proposed institution TO the
service emitting It to aid to the extent Of pro-
Viding rooms in the new War and Navy Depart
ment building for its meetings, and tOr library
and professional museum.
Year: 1878

TIE GOVERNMENT TO BE ASKED TO ENLIsT ONE


HUNDRED THOUSAND SOLDIERS FOR THE PUR-


POSE OF BUILDING THEM.


GENERAL PRESS DIsPATCHl


WASHINGTON, Sept. ga new association Is
forming here known as the Enlisted Labor Asso-
ciation.7 1t proposes to urge upon Congress the
passage of a law by which 100000 volunteers may
be enlisted for five years, for military and agrcul-
tural purposes on q reservation Of the Government.
Twelve skilled mechanics OF artisans are to be in
each company, and regiment Of each corps is to
be of engineers exclusively. !As soon 10000 men
shall be enlisted, they shall be sent 10 n
reservation. and, upon their arrival. shall
survey and lay out a city, and begin the
erection Of suitable quarters for permanent settle
Element preparing the ground for agricultural pur-
poses and developing the mineral resources of the
country. Each corps is to be furnished by the Gov
ernment with seeds, stock farming implements and
tools The volunteers are to receive the same pay
as ..the soldiers Of the Regular Army and every
person so enlsting shall upon honorable discharge
from the service, be entitled to and receive patent
for 100 acres of land, as now provided for by the
Homestead Act in lieu thereof, to one lot within
the limits of said city. he may elect, every alter
nate lot to be reserved to the United States.
Year: 1878

NEw YoHK, July l5.-The Pacific
Mail Steamship Company have given 90
days notice to The Union Pacific Railroad
Company Of ia intention TO cancel the
contract Of the combination with said
eompany,
Year: 1878

A person who was looking at q
house the other day, said he couldn't
afford to pay such rent. "Well,
look at the neighborhood," replied
the woman, "you can borrow fat
irons next door, coffee and tea
across the road, -four and sugar on
the corner, and there's q big pile of
wood belonging to the schoolhouse
right across the alley.
Year: 1878

Prisoners in the Connecticut
State Prison get q reduction in
time Of two months from each year
of their terms by good behavior.
This to man serving his life SEN
tence must amount to considerable
at the end of his time.-Danbury
News.
Year: 1878

When you hear country church
choir singing, "There will be no
more sorrow there" you conclude
at once that either the aforesaid
choir will not be there, or they will
not be permitted to sing.-Oil City
Derrick.
Year: 1878

Obey Vernon, the well known pork
butcher, will have saugage on his stalls
in the Third street, and also in the
Eighth street market on Wednesday.
He is noted for the excellence Of his
sausage, and large number OF citizens
will avail themselves of this opportl.n-
ity to procure a superior article. Hs
will also have sausage in the Eighth
street market on Tuesday and Friday
afternoon as we'll as the regular market
days. Give him call.
Year: 1878

A young man who was in Alaska
some four years ago, fell in love with
the only young lady on the island, a
girl of fifteen, who was possessed of
extraordinary beauty, and whose hair
fell below her knees. But he was un-
able to communicate "the old, old
story' to her, for she did not under
stand q word of English, nor did he
speak Russian. In this dilemma the
arrival of the priest on his once
in-two-years visit was a GOd-send, and
to him he made known his love. The
priest knowing the young man to he
possessed of a high character. and a
fair fortune, thought it was lucky
chance for the young lady to escape
from life of such isolation, and he
willingly persuaded the girls mother
(her father was dead to consent to the
match, but the young lady herself was
not to be persuaded. She argued that
she had never spoken to the Young
man who expressed such desire to
become her husband, had only seen him
twice, and he had been ON the island
only forty-eight days; but her obiec-
tions We're -oVerruled; and the mar
-riage took place. Afterliving in Alas
ka for several mon tbs, the young man
brought his bride to his home in
! Cleveland, Ohio. She was astonished
at the fashions she saw, and declared
that nothing would induce her to wear
her hair otherwise than flowing-as
she had always worn it, But before
twenty-four hours had passed her
mother-in-law had persuaded her TO
try the effect of braills around her
broad and shapely head, and now she


dresses as much in the fashion as any
lady III Cleveland. Last year her hus-
band went to Alaska again, and
brought home her young sister, who
is eleven ypars Of age, and promises
to be as beautiful as the elder. The
mother, hereft of both of her children,
still clings to her home ON one of the
islands of Alaska,
Year: 1878

Lying supplies those who are adj
dicted to it with plausible excuse for
every crime, and a supposed shelter
from every punishment IT tempts
them to rush into danger from the
mere expectation of impunity; and:
when praoticcd with frequent success,
it teaches them to confound the grad
ations of guilt from the effects OF
which there is in their imaginatioHs,
at least one sure and common
protection. 1t corrupts the early sim
plicity of youth; it blasts the fairest
blossoms of genius; and will most
surely cqunteract every effort by
which We may hope To improve the
talents and mature the virtues OF
those whom it infects.
Year: 1878

1t is becoming apparent to a great
many persons that Mr.. Southland
ought to get his triple Presidential bill
through as.sOon as possible. With three
Presidents we could probably afford
one to do little but tell folks how very
cheerful and contented he feels.
Year: 1878

Officers were sent after the peddler,
and next day he was arrested, exam
ined and committed for trial as the
murderer of Mr.. Bell. When the
trial came on the peddler whose
name was found to be Abram Lewis,
told most extraordinary and, as was
then generally believed, artful story.
Before this, however, additional testi-
mOny of a most startling nature was
produced for the prosecution. In the
peddler's box, in which he ecarricd the
goods which he offered for sale, was
found small parcel containing ten
shillings, the wrapper being the
piece of a newspaper. In the farmers
pocket was found the newspaper from
which the piece used as wrapper had
been torn. 1t fitted exactly. The
hostler of the inn at Norwich, at
which the farmer stopped on the day
he was murdered,
Year: 1878

- AN IMPORTANT FACT no REBATE.
Between six and ten o'clock the same
night, the pedlar called at the farmers
house and informed Mrs. Bell and her
daughter that Mr. Bell had sent him
with message that he had forgotten
some important business, and had
returned to Norwich, and that prOba-
bly, he would not return home until
next morning. These facts clearly
pointed to the pedlar rs the guilty
man. After numbering and robbing
the farmer he concOcted the plan of
pretending to be a messenger from
him with the view of relieving his
family from all fears at his prolonged
absence, thus securing
Year: 1878

These latter were traced along the
road leading from Norwich, for about
"a quarter of mile, to a stone by the
roadside. Here they ceased land it was
supposed that the murderer had sat
upon the stone and put his boots on.
Between the stone and the hedge Mr..
Bells hat was found.


1t was evident that, after commit
ting the crime,


THE ASSASSIN HAD VISITED THE INN.


Inquiry showed that Mr.. Bel quit
ted Norwich about seven O'Clock in
the evening to walk home, a distance
of about three miles. The probability
was, therefore, that he was murdered
between eight and nine o'clock, while
it was still daylight. About ten
O'Clock the same night Il Jewish sPed-
lar called at the inn, in the yard of
which the hat-Iining had been found.
He wore long boots and corduroy
trowsers. He ate Il little bread and
cheese, drank a glass of ale and quit
ted the place, remarking that he had
a long Journey before daylight. ThE
was ali that was known about him at
the inn, but the wife and daughter of
the murdered man had - r.
Year: 1878

and, recognizing the farmer, notified
his family, which consisted of wife
and one daughter. The proper author
flies were summoned, and careful
examination was begun. Mr.. Bells
skull was cut in two places from the
blows of a blunt weapon, and there
was one stab wound in his heart and
another in his throat. In the mud
near by were the marks of Mr.. Bells
boots and of the bare feet of another
party. Lying in the ditch large
iackknife was found with which the
stab wounds had been inflicted. The
marks of Mr.. Bells boots were visible
from the road up to where the body
lay, as were also
Year: 1878

The story of his having fallen heir
to property was soon exploded, and
the testimony of two persons showed
that OH the night of the murder he
was absent from the inn. The land
lord himself testified that he let him
in between eleven and twelve o'clock
that night, and that he was muffed
up and disguised. But still there was
something wanting to bring home to
him the crime of which he was sus-
pected. His trunks was carefully
searched, and the letter written by Mr.
Redmayne, and handed To Mr.. Bell
OH the very day he was murdered, was
found at the bottom of one of them.


Wilson was committed for trial, and
that very night strangled himself, in
his cell, with his suspender.
Year: 1878

IDENTIFIED THE PEDDLER


as having been in the inn yard on the
day in question, and as having asked
a number of questions about the far
mer. The hOstler also swOre that the
knife found by the dead man belonged
to the peddleP. He knewit from the
fact of the peddler's having
lent it to him that very day to bore a
hole in a strap of harness he was fix
ing. None of the money which the
farmer was known to have had about
him was found on the peddler, but it
was supposed that he had hidden it
somewhere before he was arrested.
Year: 1878

After consulting with the landlord
he leased n small farm adjoining that
owned and cultivated by the widow
of the murdered farmer Bell. He pur-
chased suitable stock and devoted
himself diligently to the cultivation
of his land. He was a regular attend
ant at the parish church for the first
six months of his residence, but after
that he began to attend the Metho-
dist Chapel, where Mrs. Bell and her
daughter wOrshiped. He soon form
ed the acquaintance of these two Ia
dies, and, though they never gave
him any encouragement, called re-
peatedly at their house.


Miss Bell was a fair, pretty girl of
twenty years, and it was rumOred that


WILSON WAS PAYING HIS COURT TO
Year: 1878

Six weeks after the hanging of
Abram Lewis, Henry Wilson, the
hOstler, whose testimony had been so
damaging to the unfortunate man,
told his employer that an. uncle had
died in Lincolnshire and left him a
sum of money. Wilson
gave his associates treat and started
At the end of month
he returned clad in mourning and
took up his abode as a guest at the
inn where he had served for three
years as hostler. He appeared to have
a plenty of money and soon made
host of friends. He was a medium
sized gOodlooking young fellow of
twenty-six, and well dressed as he
was now
Year: 1878

proved, first of all, that he was a
man of good character, bringing up
his family in responsibility. Then he
told his story. He said that on the
night of the murder he was on his
way from Norwich to the midlar
counties. About a hundred yardR
from the stone before referred to he
met man well muffed up; the man
passed him, and the peddler walked
on. He sat down on the stone to rest,
and filled his pipe. The paper i'll
which he carried his tobacco was worn
out, and he looked around to see
whether there was anything lying
near he could substitute for it.


BETWEEN THE EsToNEAND THE HEDGE
he saw what he supposed was an old
hat. He picked it up, tore out the
lining and wrapped his tobacco i'll it.
| As he did this, he saw the man whom
he had passed just before coming to-
ward him. When the man got close
| to him, he said:


"Friend, do you want to earn cOu-
pie of shillings?"


~ always want to earn money" "
the peddler replied.


"If you will carry a message to the
house on the hill, there" the man
said, II will give you ten shillings."


"What is the message ~ the ped
! dler asked.


'I live there" the man said, "Go
and tell the folks ] have forgotten
some important business, and am 60
ing back to Norwich, and won't be
! home, perhaps, until tomorrow"


The peddler agreed to go and carry
! the message, and the man gave him
the money wrapped in piece OF
newspaper. That was the money and
paper found in his box. He took the
/ message, as before sworn to in evil
dence by


MRS. BELL AND HER DAUGHTER.


After eating supper at the inn the
peddler, according TO his story, went
| into the yard and filled his pipe. Then
Inc transferred the rest of the tobacco
to his waisteoat pocket and threw the
yvrau,,er-the lining which he had tai
Ken out of the hat he had FOUND by
the stone-upon the ground, where ii
was subsequently, found. The ped
dIer said that, seeing the farmer
around i'm the inn yard, he asked the
bostler where he lived, whether he
was well Off and whether he had any
children, with the sole purpose oi
finding out whether i would be worth


while visiting his resideaco for the
purpose OF selling his wares. As tC
the knife, he admitted that it was his


and that he had lent it III the hostleI
to bore IA hole with the day of the
murder; but he also solemnly averred


that the hostler had never returned il


to him.


AS rain fell during the day that fol
lowed the farmers murder, the feet o
! antllH q


with the prints in the mud, the lattcl
having b:en Obliteratcd. The prison
eris counsel made long and able adj


dress ON behalf of his client. He re
r ferred to his perseverance and thrift
: through his early manhood, TO hi
: raelitish family, and to his having ex
; pensively educated two sons and
: daughter. A score o. witnesses wer
1 brought to testify TO Lewis eNcellen


character rs man and his integrit,
Year: 1878

Duncan's Liver and Kidney Medicine is q
cure for all diseases having their origin in
diseased state of the Kidney, or Liver, such
sick headache, dyspepsia, swimming in the
head, loss of appetite, bad taste in the mouth,
heartburn, tenderness or fullness over the
region of the stomach, cramp collie, costive-
ness, palpitation of the heart, pain in the
back, sides and limbs, and all diseases pecu-
liar to females. We can say to our friends
that the above medicine is just what it is rep
resented to be- and is pronounced .by every
one who has used it, far superior to any Liver
Medicine they have ever used We know that
it gives better satisfaction than any we have
ever sold. Knowing it to be purly vegetable,
we can recommend it to our suffering friends
Price IS cents. For sale by NJ F. Ash, Jack
son. Miss.
Year: 1878

THs CONSEQUENCES editor of
quircd of every Governor of Delaware
to hang two men, on such evidence as
convicted Chambers and Collins, our
prayer is that We may never be Cover
nor." The computations of conscience
following the commission Of a gross out
rage, are too great 10 be borne by the
majority Of men, but Governor Cochran
may be proof against them. The per-
turbed spirits of the murdered men
may not always down at his bidding,
in the silent hours of night, and dream
ing or waking they may haunt his pill
low,
Year: 1878

punishment whatever, but the outrage
wasso criminal and revolving, that we be-
lieve the man got slight punishment
for an assault and battery. Who will
pretend to say that in the case referred
to, had the-color and sex been reversed,
the one committing the outrage would
not have been hung.


Only about eighteen months or two
years ago, AN Outrageous case was sent up
from this same Middletown, but the
principals in it were both white, though
one was an elderly married man, and
the other but young girl not yet in
the middle Of her teens. The young
girl was SO badgered upon the witness
stand that she was made to appear as a
consenting party, and the man escaped,
though if his skin had been black there
cannot be much doubt that the colored
uodtu EOll WOulu nave ToCuIucu upou
its pages another victim to satisfy Of
Tended justice. These are facts, and
facts are stubborn things to fight
against. 1t will not do to drag in other
issues, and call it politics or some other
name. The record is there and cannot
BE- changed.


As we have before said, we think
that amongst many of the cases we have
mentioned there were several that
should have been cleared, just as they
were cleared, but while we say this,
allow us to ask. Why is it that no col
ored man escapes. We would in view
of the foregoing facts and ideas still say
that to the white man, trials for capi-
tai offences have become but an annoy
ance, especially if the crime be commit.
ted on colored person while to the
colored man trials for capital offences
if committed OH white people, have be-
come certain death.
Year: 1878

The record we presented on Saturday
of the hangings that have taken place
in this county during the last forty
years in our editorial; the comment up
on the same; the number of colored men
tried convicted and hung, the number
OF white men tried and not convicted
and if convicted not hung, has aroused
an inquiry amongst the people, as to
whether these things are so.


There stands the record black as it
may look. The road to the gallows has
been made so easy for the black man
that none who ever entered upon it
escaped the halter.


To the white man the road has been
made SO difficult, that with the excep-
tions Of Armstrong and Bowen, none
have ever reached the gallows. The
heart of humanity sickens when the
case of West and poor Cooch Turner Of
Dover is called to our memory. Are
there no grades Of capital crimes in
Delaware from which colored man
might sometime escape? White men
for the baldest rapes and murders have
escaped, while no colored man placed
. within the prisoners dock at New Gas
tie, even upon the most doubtful evi,
dence has been known to escape, so fal
as we have been informed.


To white people these trials for cap.
ital offences have become only source
Of annoyance, while to the colored they
are certain death. But says some o
our contemporaries, the negroes com
nit all the outrages. We do not be
lieve this, but we do believe that they
are sooner found out, and when found
out, they have but little money to fe'
4 first class lawyer to get them out o
difficulty. This together with the gen
eral animosity against the colored peo
pie, which it is foolish to say does no
exist, generally works the sure convic
ton of the colored man.


In our editorial Of Saturday, in speak
ing of the names of white mel
who had been charged with capi
,tal offences, and who were not convic
ted, we neglected to mention the cas-
]. of a white man who we will not name
but who lived down the country, ant
who committed an unmitigated outrag
upon young respectable, colored girl
Strenuous efforts were made, AM
money talent and time was expende
TO clear that man without receiving an.
Year: 1878

THR MIssPILLLON.-An effort Is about
being made to procure an appropria-
ton from Congress to improve the
MisspilliOn river from Milford to the
Delaware Bay. We hope that it may
be successful and that the MisspilliOn
may be deepened to an extent that
will render it navigable forvessels
Of the largest class, so that the TRADE
thereon may not only be doubled but
quadrupled.
Year: 1878

To ADvERrIsERs.-We would request
our advertisers to send in their favors,
when they want a change of advertise
ment, the day before such change is to
be made, and especially when they
want change on Saturday.
Year: 1878

The New York Tribune says the sprightly
Springer sis jumping about in Illinois trying
to convince his constituents that he ought to
make them ridiculous again by being sent back
to Congress. His critics notice that since the
cipher revelations the fraud corner of his
mouth has been closed for repairs, and that
he throws all his strength into an effort to
capture the Greenback vote. There is a
Greenback candidate running against him,
and also Republican candidate, which gives
at least chance that he may be defeated, as
his majority was only little over 5000 two
years ago. He ought to be defeated, for the
Capital District of Illinois deserves to be rep
resented by somebody besides political
mountebank."
Year: 1878

SECRETARY THOMPSON, says Washing
ton correspondent, has made general state
ment In regard to his forthcoming report.
He expects it to be finished in about a fort
night. 1t will contain a number of new
recommendations, and he will attempt to
place the condition of the navy in such
light before Congress as to secure more con-
sideration than that department has been
able to obtain of late years. He says Con-
gressmen appear to think, if they appropriate
for the pay of the navy and for keeping the
docks and yards in order, that it is about all
that is really needed, but he will attempt this
year to make them understand that subject
little better. His estimates will be about the
same as the appropriations for the present
year. He says he must, however, have more
morey to protect the immense amount of
public property now going to ruin for want
of care. To impress this necessity upon
Congress, he is preparing an inventory of all
the government property, yards, buildings,
machinery, ships, materials, supplies, etc.,
under his charge, which he will submit to
Congress for the purpose ofshowing what he
needs to care properly for. From the esti-
mates already received these inventories will
show that he has in possession from one hun
dred to one hundred and fifty millions of pub
lie property. The ships alone reach value
OF thirty millions, while of course their cost
was great deal more. He had not expected
any deficiency, and will have none to ask in
the regular bills. He will need deficiency
appropriation for his contingent fund, how
ever, owing to the unexpected drains upon it
to meet the damages which have arisen at
League Island, off Philadelphia, during the
late storm. The damage to two buildings
was one hundred thousand dollars, and to
the dixie from twenty to thirty thousand.
There is no appropriation to cover The dam
ages from storms, and so it is necessary to
use the contingent fund to meet such un-
expected demands. He has during the year
repaired, refitted and made about as good as
new ten ships which have heretofore been
laid up unfit even for single cruise. In the
next three months he will have added two to
this list.
Year: 1878

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