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Year: 1879

HIS APPEAL AGAINST HIS CONVICTION OF THE
MURDER OF MRS. HULL ARGUED BEFORE THE


SUPREME COURT.


The question as to whether the confession made
by Chastine Cox that he murdered Mrs. Jane De
Forest Hull the 11th of June last No. 14O West
Forysecond street. is sufficient legal basis for in
ficting the severest penalty of the law under his
conviction for murder in the first degree in the
Court Of General Sessions before Judge Cowing in
the month of july is soon to be determined by the
Supreme Court, General Term An appeal from
this conviction. it will be remembered, was
taken by the prisoners counsel Mr.. Will
case was argued at great length yesterday before
Judges Davis Brady and ingalls,, holding the Gen
eral Term OF the Supreme Court. The Court re-
manned in session until very late hour listening to
the argument, which was sharply contested on both
sides sistant District Attorney Daniel G.. Rollins
appearlns on the part OF the prosecution. 1t is un
necessary to recte the particulars of this arocious
homicide. which are yet fresh in the public men,
ory. Following his conviction Cox sentenced to
be hanged on the Goth of August.


After succnct narrative Of the circumstances
connected with the tragedy Mr.. Howe proceeded
with his argument to show, as he claimed. that the
confession OF tine murderer was worthy of no legal
consideration whatever. and that grave errors were
committed, not alone in the selection OF the jurors
who tried Cox. but also by the ruling Of the Judge
in regard to the special plea interposed as to the
manner IN which the jurors were drawn.


Assistant District Attorney Rollins then followed
with learned reply, insisting that Judge Cowng
had cured the error II any oy MS subsequent fair
offer to counsel to try the questions raised in the
plea by the prisoners counsel-an offer Of which
the prisoners counsel refused to avail himself.
But Mr.. Rollins contended at great length
and with much force that assuming the plea to be-
correctly on record. it contained nothing showing
injury prejudice to the prisoner. He then took
up seriatim the various points raised by the pris-
oner's counsel and earnestly combated them.
claiming that neither Of them was sufficient to
justify reversal of this he thought. most just
conviction. In conclusion he stated that q moro
brutal and atrocious murder had not been COM
mitted for years in this city, and called the at
tentlon of the Court to the fact that the prisoner
had voluntarily confessed his perpetration Of the
horrible crimes that the jury in the face of this
fession and tho evidence could have rendered no
other verdict than that which consigned this self
confessed murderer to the scaold. and that If any
under such circumstances could through mere
technicalty escape meried punishment of his crime
then the time had arrived when courts of justice
should be abolished.


After brief reply by Mr.. Howe the counsel passed
up their briefs for the examination of the Court
preliminary to its decision.
Year: 1879

RESULT or PROFESSOR JoKNsoNs Analysis
A POINT FOR THE DEFENcE-sToIcIsM OF
THE PRISONER.


[Dy TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALDl


NORWICH Conn.,, Oct. 20. 1879.
1t has come TO light to-day that Professor Johnson
in his analysis Of portion of the stomach of tho
late Mrs. Riddle found not only traces of arsenic
but also bismuth and the defence expect to
show that the arsenic found was a component
part OF the medicines taken by Mrs. Riddle.
Bismuth is said to frequently contain arsenic
and was, 1t is alleged. administer to the sick
woman by her physicians of whom, DR.. Bailey,
refuses to be interviewed tho matter. The hold
ing back of this information has done much toward
preliminary trial next week the defence will learn
the to be taken by the State and will accord
ingly reap the benefit of this information State
Attorney Waller has said the case could not be
reached in the Superior Court before late in the VIM
ter.


MIR. RIDDLES DEMEANoR.


Mr.. Riddles present wife is allowed to visit him
during the day. She is much affected over her hus-
bands arrest, and refuses to believe he Is guilty.
An interview between them took place to-day. when
Mrs. Riddle fell into the accused mans arms and
sobbed bitterly. He endeavored to soothe her and
wiped away her tears with his handkerchief but not
a muscle of his face stirred. He does not show the
least feeling the affair." ana talks freely with
the officers who have him in charge. Speaking OF
his yesterday he said --"There but few bet
young man is assiduous in his attentions to his
fafb
Year: 1879

ONE WITNESS THE LESS.


Reports from Guford this afternoon indicate that
the State is TO lose of its most valuable wit
nesses. This is Mrs. Jane Studley. an aged lady
with whom Mary Stannard living Just before
the murder, and to whom she made statement that
she had been criminally intimate with Hayden and
was pregnant. Mrs. Studley had paralytic shock
this week, but her condition not regarded AS
serious until to-day. The latest report is that
in u semi-unconscious state and probably cannot
c,1rv va
Year: 1879

A writer from Niagara says: Those
who want to see the horseshoe fall
of Niagara must, | fancy, come out
soon, or they will not be able to form
an idea of what it was, for think it
is going to change its form more
quickly than it has done for century
past. Already great change has
taken place in its appearance. About
two wears ago the shoe was rent i'll
twain, and Il vast rent made III the
toe of the cliff over which the great
river falls. The consequence is that
instead of driving straight down a
cir cular wall of water, the course of
the column is radely broken in the
middle, and a foaming torrent COLA
pses in jagged gorge of the cliff.
thus splitting the cascade into two
sides of IL horseshoe, with cataract
in the center. Much more mist, too,
is produced by the cataract than was
formerly occasioned bv the sheer fall
of the horseshoe, and the view of the
fall is consequently obscured. The
river might have fallen for centuries
over this solid weir of hardest schist:
hut fissure having been made in
Natures masonry it is not unlikely that
the river Will continue its eXcavaf
ton, begun near Lake Ontario, and
do its work more quickly than of late
Now that q breach has been made il
the fortress, it seems certain that the
volume of water, acting as a pcrpe


tual battering-ram on the wall of eacl
side of it, will soon detach Other
portions of them, and thus alter th'


whole form and character of th,


famous Horseshoe falls.
Year: 1879

A writer to the Christian at Work
insists that position i'll sleep is of
great importance. He says:


"The food passes from the stomach
at the right side, hence its passage is
right side. Water and other fluids
flow equally on level, and it re-
quires less power to propcl them on
q level than upward.


The heart prOpcls the blood to
every part of the body at each sue
cessive beat, and it is easy to see that
if the body is placed in Il horizontal
position the blood will be sent to the
various part of the system with great
er ease, with less expenditure of pow
er, and more perfectly than if one
portion of the body were elevated
above horizontal line.


eff one portion of the body is too
low, the blood does not return as
readily as it is carried thither hence,
there is an accumulation and disten-
ton. and pain follows. -.,t


eff person goes to sleep with the
head but little lower than the body,
he will either soon wake up, or will
die with apoplexy before morning,
because the blood could not get back
from the brain as fast as it was carri-
ed to it.


1.-The savage uses log of wood or
a bunch of leaves, civilized man a
pillow, and if this pillow is too thick,
raising the head too high, there is not
blood enough carried to the brain
and as the brain is nourished and
lnvigOrated by the nu,riment it re-
ceives from the blood during sleep,
it is not fed sufficiently, and the re-
suit is unquiet sleep during the night,
waking up in wearincss, without
rcfreshment, to be followed by 4 day
OF drowsiness and discomfort, and
general inactivity of both mind and
hOly -
Year: 1879

A late medical writer considers the
proper position to assume during sleep
to be that OF lying face downward, as in
that position only can all the organs Of
the body freely perform their proper
functions.
Year: 1879

GEN. GARFIELD was interviewed by q
Tribune reporter on Tuesday, and made this
prediction as to the course of the Democratic
majority in Congress: Il think they will in
the end try to avoid the appearance of a
backdown by throwing the whole question
over to the regular session next winter, and
passing joint resolution continuing for six
months pro rata the appropriations made for
the present fiscal year, which would carry the
government along until December 81. We
prepared in advance tor their escape In that
direction, however. Before the last session
expires, drew and Mr.. Foster offered res
olution of that precise purport, and we Of
tered it to the Democrats as a means Of
avoiding the extra session. They contempt


uously rejected it. Now if they introduce il
as loophole through which to crawl out #
the fix they are in, we shall say: "Very well;
we accept that; it is our resolution which You
refused to pass last winter. We are glad to
see that you have come around to our propo-
stion at last, after putting the country to all
the worry and expense of the extra session."
Year: 1879

A MEMPHIS correspondent of the Cincn-
natl Commercial writes that he recently
counted on the banks of the Mississippi twen-
ty-four different encampments of colored peo-
pie, with their poor battered aud tattered
household goods stacked up waiting for
boat to give them the transportation they
were capable of paying for. These people
had evidently come from long distance to
the river with barely enough money to pay
their steamboat passage, but the planters had
ordered the Northern bound boats not to stop
for the refugees, and as the whites refused
them the ordinary necessaries of life, even
when pay was offered, they were in immedi-
ate danger of starving,
Year: 1879

A GENTLEMAN from Guido parish, La,
tells New York Times reporter that al
though the exodus in that section has stopped
for the present, it is only because the colored
men wish to gather and dispose Of the COM
ing crop before leaving. He adds that the
negroes are thoroughly demoralized and fear
that the purpose OF the Louisiana Constitu-
tional convention is to subject them to still
greater prosecutions
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters ana communi
cations. The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessary Tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

Little Ira

 Died Sep. the 29th, 1878.

 We hold thee to our quivering hearts And ask in vain thy wanted smile, One little loving word to hear; And thou are still and cold the while. Art still and cold! Oh snowflake hands,. White as thy sinless soul now gone, Clasped on thy breast wherein nc

 throb

 Proclaims that life and thee are one. On little heart that knew no guile Oh little feet that never walked; Oh love-lit eyes; oh matchless smile Oh baby lips that never talked; Oh dimpled hand, whose clingine

 clasp

 Is loosed fore'er in midnight gloom, We miss you in our stricken hearts, We miss you in our lonely home. Our selfish grief will not be hushed, All desolate our hearts weep on; We look not for the stars above, We only know that thou art gone. We only feel the christening hand, The Infinite love we cannot sect Remembering but our bitter loss, Forgetting it is well with thee. We'll with our little sinless lamb; We'll with our baby gone before; For him the storms of life are spent For him life's fitful fever OCT. For him no sad long years to diary; For him no racking pain;

 Beyond the gates dear little Ira Shall greet our longink hearts again.
Year: 1879

There has bsen considerable talk
among certain classes in our city about
the expediency Of tie continuance OF
erecting house with only four inch
walls, and few weeks ago pstition
was sent to Council asking the appoint
ment of an inspector OF buildings. Thus
far there has been 10 report on the
matter and the parties interested are
anxious to hear from it. Tho commit.
tee .hould report on it at the next
meeting and let the citizens under
stand the view taken OF the matter.
Year: 1879

Many persons do not understand
the law regulating the transmission
of printed matter through the mails
We frequently receive postal cards TO
which are attached, by cumming and
pasting, slips of printed matter, and
the postal agents mark them as re-
quiring additional postage, and prob
ably many others are deposited which
are never forwarded. The languages
of the rules is very explicit:


'No card is postal card except
such as are used By the Pestoi flee
Department. An ordinary printed
business card may be sent through
the mails when prepaid By / cent
postage stamp attached but such
cards must contain absolutely no
written matter except the address
otherwise it will be treated as not
full prepaid and refused admission in
TO the malls"


In using postal cards be careful not
to write or have anything printed on
the side to be used for the address
except the address; also be careful
not to past, gun or attach anything
to them except On address They
are unmailsble a. postal cards when
these suggestions sTe 3isregarded -
Hartford Post.
Year: 1879

A new and very simple method Of
training vicious horses was exhibited
in West Philadelphia recently, and
the manner in which some of the
widest horses were subdued was as
tonishiog. The first trial was that
eta kicking or "bucking" mare, which
her owner said had allowed no rider
on her back for period of at least
i've wears. She became tame and
gentle in about as many minutes, and
allowed herself to be ridden about
without sign Of her former wildness.
The means by which he result was
accomplished consisted of piece of
light rope, which was passed around
the front jaw Of the mare, just above
the upper teeth, crossed in her mouth
aud thence secured back Of her neck
IL was claimed that no horse will
kick or jump when thus secured, and
that 'buckiDg' horse, after receiving
the treatment few times, will aban-
don his vicious way forever A very
simple method was also shown by
which kicking horse could be shod.
1t consisted in connecting the ami
mails head and tail by means of q
rope fastened to the tail and then to
the bit, and drawn tightly enough to
incline the horses head to one side.
This, it is claimed, makes it absolute
ly impossible for the horse to kick on
the side of the rope AT the same
exhibition, a horse, which for many
years bad to be bound on the ground
to be shod, suffered the blacksmith to
operate on him without attempting to
kick while secured in the manner de-
scribed.
Year: 1879

Paul Boyton lately arrived at Gin
cinnati from New Orleans, in good
health aud condition, and completely
satisfied with the result of the trip
down the great Western rivers The
Captain says he was very i'll with
effects of malaria in the lower river,
and at one time decided to give up
his undertaking. He took one night
eighty grains Of quiDine 81 dose,
which knocked the malaria ont OF
him, and nearly knocked him ou; of
the world The terrible loneliness of
the great river, the Captain says,
nearly overcame him At times he
aoated twenty-four hous without a
sight or sign of a liying being moth
ing bat the vast yellow alod Of the
low, marshy shores anu ne gloomy
overbanging cypress tree 1t
was a relief in the long night hear
now and then the crash section
OF bank falling 10 or any tbs weird
unexplainab!e sounds Of be night.
One OF the most terTibls experiences
was floating all night in a dense fog
and darkness so Intense it could be
felt, while all about bin you could
tear the believing Of tie alIigatOrs
and their purges in the gloomy baY-
GUS He was splendidly received in
New Orleans. He remained at Cia-
cinnati several days, for the purpose
of giving exhibitions at the Geologic
81 Garden.
Year: 1879


am lying at rest in the sancsnm tonight
The place is deserted and still;
To my right lie exchanges and manuscripts white,
To my len are the ink AMI tAc quill
Yes the quill, for my masters old-fAshionsd and


quaint,


And refuses TO write with pen
He insists that old Franklin, The editor saint,
Used quill, and hc'il initssc Ben
love the old fcilow-.oye.her for years
We have managed the FsrafT's Gazette.
And although am old I'm his tavorite shears.
And can crowd the compositsrs yet.
But my duties are rather 10 heavy think,
And oftentimes csvy the quill
As it lazily leans with It's nib In the lax
While I'm slsshing away with will.
But whea was new-I remember 1t well.
Though score Of long years have gone by
The heaviest share Of the editing fell
On the quill, and think with sigh
OF the days when s.issored an extra or tw1
From n ncighboring editorS leader,
Then laughed in my sleeve at the quill as i. dew
In behalf OF the general reader.
l am being paid of for my msrriment then.
For ny master is wrinkied and gray,
And seldom lays hold on his primitive pen,
Except when he wishes TO say:
ave are needing some money to run the machine,
And subscribers will plea So to REMIT
Or THAT last load of wood that Jones brought us


was green,


And SO knotty 1t couldn't Be split
He is nervous and deaf and IS getting quite blind,
Though he hates to acknerieigc the latter
And I'm sorry to say it's pazzle TO find
Head or tail TO the most ofhis matter.
The compositors plague him whenever they see
The result OF a luckless endeavor,
But the darling old rascal Just lays 1t to me.
And Imake no remonstrance whatever.
Yes shoulder tho blame-yery little / care
For the jolly compositor's Jest,
For think Of head with the silyery hair,
That viii soon, very soon be at rest
He has labored full long Tor the true and the good
Mid the manifold troubles that irk US
His only emoiument raiment and food,
And-a pass now and then. TO the circus.
Heigho. from the past comes memory bright
OF lass with the freshness ofcIover.
Who used me to clip from her trcsses one night
memorial lock for her lover.
That dear little lock is still glossy and brown,
But the lass is much older and faitcr,
and the youth--he's an editor here In the town
I'm employed on the staff Of the latter.
am lying at rest in the sanctum, tonight
The place is deserted and still
The stars are aboard and the moon is In sight
Through the trees on the brow of the hill,
Clouds hurry along in dignited haste
And the wind rushes by With wall
Hello. there's a whopplng big rat in the paste
How I'd like to shut down On bis tail.
Year: 1879

When the husband was left to bis
own reflection. be began to ponder
seriously upon the subject thus pres
ented for consideration. He could not
read-be could not play-he could
not enjoy himself in any way. while
that chair was empty. In short, be
found that home had no real comfort
Year: 1879

we do not read anonymous letters and commun
cations The name and address Of the writer are il
all Indispensable not necessarily for publicao,
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve com.
mnnications that are not used.
Year: 1879

A year and more ago Gambetta announced
that President MacMahon must submit to
the parliamentary majority or resign-so,.-
METRE on deaettre, rendered into the Yankee
vernacular at the time by Submit or GIT"
The Marshal President submitted then.
This time he prefers to "gt."


Time was, and not long since when
change like the one just accomplished in the
government could not be effected in France
without a revolution. 1t would have been
regarded as signal tor an outbreak of the
factions. Some days have passed since the
resignation of MacMahon, and no symp-
toms of trouble present themselves. The
French people breathe easier, relieved of the
incubus Of a reactionary President, and the
machinery of government goes on as before.
The action ofthe legislative body evidently
meets with the approval of the country. Not
few of the friends of the Republic were
alarmed by the crisis and in their fear pre-
dicted trouble; but happily their predictions
have come to nought. The change peaceably
effected is for the good of the country. For
the first time since 1870 the three branches of
the government are in harmony, and act to-
gether. The Republican majority is no
longer hampered by an executive not in SYM
pathy with it. and no longer harassed by
suspicious of military intrigues. The Mar
shal was an honorable man, simple and
straightforward in his dealings, but
he certainly had ceased to really rep
resent the French people, and it was
was better that the nominal representation
should cease. His fidelity to his army com
rades is pleasing, ard if he could not bring
himself to demand their designations he did
wisely in making way for successor who
would carry out the will of the people. That
fidelity has naturally provoked sympathy.
and some Amurican journals have funnily
enough pictured him as a MARTYR to civil
service reform, forgetting in their zeal that
the civil service is not the military. 1t does
at first view seem absurd to an American to
remove military commanders because they do
not represent the parliamentary majority,
But with us the army is not an object of
fear. Had it been repeatedly used 10 subvert
the freedom of the Republic we should en-
tertain for it more than French dlstrust.
and demand that its great offices be put in
charge of upholders of a republican form of
government. The French commanders were
known to be Imperialists, favoring the re-
establishment of the Napoleonic dynasty,
and suspected, very likely with Justice, OF
intriguing for the return of the Prince I'm
perial. 1t might be unsafe to have them in
command when fhe Presidential election
came off. The Republicans decided that
they would not take the chances. The wis
dom of the decision remains to be proved.
but the course of events so far certainly tends
to justify it.
Year: 1879

The stupidity ofthe detectives, long ap-
parent, reaches its very height and crown of
absurdity in the theory put forth by the
members of the craft, (for as practsed 1t
needs practical acquaintance with the me-
chanical art of the burglar as well as with
the tricks of the illusionist and the dark
closet medium) thai Mr.. Barron 'tcommitted
suicide with the aid of an accomplice."
When astute detectives suggested that Mr..
Ross of Philadelphia had kidnapped and
hidden his own son in order to provoke the
sympathy of his fellows, that was thought to
be the last word of the profession. But
here is an idea more preposterous than that.
Further than this, it is safe to assert, the dis
eased imagination Of the widest lunatic can
not go. Mr.. Dearborn and Mr., Oh apman
can now turn their attention to the recovery
OF Stewart's body, on the theory that Mrs.
Stewart has it hidden somewhere about the
house, and that it is veritable skeleton
in one of her closets.


"Suicide with the aid OF an accomplice.n -
Shade of Vidocq! The dead cashier is as
sisted by one of his townsmen to murder him
self! And for what? To conceal defalca-
tion that does not exist. We are asked to
believe that man who had the brain and
cunning necessary to contrive so elaborate a
scheme and the persuasive powers to induce
other men uninfuenced by any motive other
than desire to serve him, to become accom-
plices, and the courage toinfiict so great ply
scal torture upon himself, did not have the
energy to live and the nerve to meet what.
ever trlfing difficulties (if any he had to en-
counter. We are asked to believe in the ex-
istence of this chine without model or a
parallel in the history of mankind. Is it not
easier to believe that the detectives, whom
we know are often fools and sometimes ras-
Gals, have added one more to their long list
of blunders? Because they IN their stupidity
are unable to fix the crime upon the living
need we believe them when they betake
themselves to the last refuge of imbecility
and attempt TO convict mau who can no
longer speak in his own BEHALF