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Year: 1876

New Haven item in the Nelson County
tecord: A singular story was told me q
0sy Or two since, and, strange as it !,
may seem. 1t was told on good authority
There. Is married couple living neal
mere. In Larue county, who, during theil
Engagement exchanged rings. The
prde elect took off her ring at one time
ana was never able to find it afterwards
As us disappearance was very mysterl.
GUS, she came to the conclusion that II
must have been carried away by the
rats, as the latter were very numerous
on the premises. After the lady and
gentleman had been married about two
years they decided to clear the place OF
ING pests, hence a thorough search was
instituted, when, 80 and behold, a raj
was found with the identical gold rinl
around its neck. Its head was as large
~ null grown rats, but its body was
rsy .ety small. 1t is supposed that an old
tat mad taken the ring and carried it tC
aer nest to adorn the neck OF her little
e%rilng, the latter's head growing toe
Aaploly to ever lose it off.-Er.


Webelieve the above to be lie,
Year: 1876

that tie State will lose anything. We
also learn that the bank proposed to the
Board of Public Works to pay the
amount due the State first out of their
assets, Judge Brown and Mr.. CABELL and
the other creditors, agreeing to hold their
claims in abeyance until the amount of
State deposits had been paid. We are
alss informed that the statement that
witnesses had appeared before the Board
of Public Works and testified as to the
insolvency of the sureties is without
foundation.


We have the additional information
that Mr.. BRADFORD, banker Of Char
lesion, had proposed to take the assets of
the bank and pay off its liabilities, but
two OF the stockholders in the meantime
sued out an injunction asking that the
assets be placed in the hands of
Receiver to wind up its affairs.
and the injunction had bee n granted and
a receiver appointed by the Circuit
Court of Kanswha county. This state
ment is confirmed by the fact that draft
on the bank was returned to the Treas.
urer (Mr BRADY with the endorsement
that it was not paid because the court
had refused TO allow any funds to be paid
out. We have given the facts as we have
been able to gather them from reliable
sources. The Attorney General has been
directed to look after the States inter-
est, and that officer in obedience to in
structions will see that the rights of the
State are fully protected.
Year: 1876

SALT LAKE, February 7.-Chiei JUS
tlce White, in charging the grand jury
to-day, concerning polygamy, said; We
had better look it square in the lace.
Distasteful as 1t may be to some, and
govern ourselves with discretion in
dealing with it. Polygamy must
be suppressed in this Territory:
Mormonism may survive, and relieved
from It would stand unshackled and as
free as every other creed or mode Of re-
hgious worship, shielded and protected
by the constitution Of our common coun-
try; but If Mormsnism can't sever itself
from polygsmy it will be to it the bridal
of death.
Year: 1876

New YORK, February Among
the passengers on the steamer Wieland
were Mrs. Thomas, wife of the author of
the Bremen Haven dynamite disaster
and her four children. She expressed
unwillingness to talk about her unpleas-
ant prominence particularly in the pres
ence of her children who as yet are igno-
rant of the whole affair. She proposes
to seek retirement in her own home IN
this country
Year: 1876

IAN UNPLEASANT VISITOR.


Delamarre shuddered, and turned and
looked into the glass over the mantel-
piece. With perfect command of coun-
tenance, he could not but see that light
pallor tinged his face We know he was
innocent Of that terrible crime but il was
a startling thing to hear the word uttered
in connection with his name. After so
many years of successful politics, so many
years OF loose pleasure so long period
in which outer respectability had been
concurrent with a disreputable private
life-it did shock this man out of his
selfpossessiOn suddenly TO find himself
face TO face with an outraged society in
the person of this stolid policeman ut
tering the word murder! lie reflected
over his position q long time before he
turned again. He saw how awkward the
situation was lie could think of no es-
cape from that which he dreaded most
a scandalous exposure-and his thoughts
ran RAPIDLY over the probable effects upon
himself and on the Ministry, to whose
existence he knew he was essential IL
was impossible to see light through the
bewildering chaos. Worse than all, in
view of that ugly word, murder Henry
Bighorne had put himself out of the way
no one knew where. On the other hand
a sentiment of honor forbade that he
should mention Bighorne's name, since
the latter had done so much for him
At length he turned calmly 20 the In
spector


"Well, what DO you want to do?


well, Mr. Delamarre, the Chief Com
missioner ordered me TO bring two gen
tlemen IN plain clothes, and leave then
in the house for the present, till you car
see your friends. OF course you won
Year: 1876

WHAT To TAKE iloNE-A loving
heart and "A pleasant countenanee are
commodities which mau should
never tail To take home with him.
They will best season his focal aud
soften his pillow. II we're great
thing tor q man ,aud hIs wife and chill
drcn could say OF him lie never
brought q irown 90 unhapplnesR
across his threshold"
Year: 1876

One evening this week a lady living on the west side
of the city got on board No IS OF the crossown
line at the corner OF Third and Twenty third
street. whilc waiting for the car she noticed in
black standing the opposite side OF the street, n
young fellow light clothes the side with her. and a
man who apparently fcigning drunkenness short
distance away These al got tho platform OF the
car before her and she obliged TO crowd through
them u enter. she took scat beside woman who
seated himself in the corner opposite, the man
black took up position ct her side and the drunken
man maintained hts place upon the platform. Tho
man In black crowded against the lady, aud looking
she found tho OF all three fastened upon her IN
curious stare surmisng that they were pckpockcts
she deliberately removed her JcweIry placed II OF
sight ciasrcd her pocket book In one hand her
umbrella in another and watched her dsagrceabe
fellow passengers. The woman who was hrst IN
yho car got OF at Madison avenue and the lady fearing
to proceed To her original destination the Eighth


nue. Incl such company she was let IN, got out
al Fifth avenue, determined 10 take broadway car,
where she could ind protection from the conductor


She had sooner got into a car than tho fellow In
black entered also, and, seating himself opposite be-
gan to cough his handScrchet aud look at her In
an offensive manner. Looking at the front platform
she as,onlshcd TO the drunken felo~ standing
watching her through The window. Whcn stoppage
was change she watched her opportunity,
Jumped or the platform tho side opposite her


sccutors and ran UP the In the direction OF her
house Fortunately there were many pedestrians
along the street When turned to ascend tho stoop
of her house she iouut OF the fellows three feet
behind her. Had the lady been forced TO proceed
much further doubt another outrage would have
becn added the list OF these pcrpetratcd under the
noses OF te best police fcroc the world ever saw"
Year: 1876

Several days since Joseph W. Kearns. known as
clover Joe," arrested a charge OF having
matched q watch chain from lady on board the
Plymouth Rock excursion boat On being arraigncd
before she magistrate he committed IN default
Of 81 900 bail This Of bail the District Attor-
ney refused to accept, on the ground that II was IN
sufficient In amount Yesterday, upon writ OF habens
corpus sued out by his counsel, Mr. William +. Howe,
the prisoner brought before Judge Dykeman, In
Supreme Court Chambers, and motion made in his
behalf Tor order compelling the District Attorney 10
accept bail in the fixed by the committing magis
lsate Tho motion opposed by Assistant District
Attorney Herring who stated to the Court that con-
siderng tho of the crime and the reputation
OF the accused . criminal he felt satisfied that any
amount OF bail less than So 600 would be ufcien
30 insure tho appearance OF the prisoner for trial.
Furthermore, hts trial bau been fixed Tor Monday next
In The Court OF General Sessions, and no very appre
oiabe amount OF hardship could be sustained by the
accused by having TO remain in prison until that time
Judge Dykcman was OF opinion that the accused had


constitutional right TO have his bail fixed at mode
sum, and that the District Attorney should accept
it Gxed by tho committing magistrate, II IN other
respects IL satisfactory. To this effect the Judge
directed an order to be entered
Year: 1876

whilc examining the baggage Of tho steamship Cim-
bra, from Hamburg, on Wednesday last Inspector ).
1. Chapman noticed one box which seemed to bo
rather heavy aud foreign to the usual passongcrs'
baggage Upon examining Its contents the inspector
found about 200 gold and silver watches Two Of
these were OF exquisite manufacture and cost about
francs each The owner of he trunk upon being
amined by the Inspector, stated In very nervous anc
suspicious manner that the trunk was given into hu
by lady In Geneva, and 1t was TO be forwarded
TO q man In Cuba He had idea OF tho value Of tho
watches, had any invoice bill OF ading he sa,d
he had worked IN store in West street for tho past
FIVE years He claimed that he did not know
the number OF watches nor "anytning about it''
excepting the explanation as given above, HsL
however asked that the goods be either sent to Cuba
returned to Germany the same vessel Inspector
Chapman thought his duty TO the watches and


rOONTINnCD ON NINTH pA1Hp
Year: 1876

WASHINGTON August 81, 1870
OFFICIAL DoSD-rLEA OF yoKxxR srrr-wHAr IT MUST


Show


No l5a-Walter N. Haldeman. ct al, plaintiffs In or
ror, vs. The United States. In error to the Circuit
Court for the District OF Kentucky.


This is action OF debt bond conditioned for the
performance OF orical duty by Hademan as surveyor
OF The customs and dcposay of the public moneys al
Louisville, Ky In discharge OF the action four pleas
OF judgment already recovered for the same cause or
action were nsfposed The Court below sustained de-
to each Of those pleas and the correctness OF
general rule that plea Of former recovery, whether
1t be by confesson, verdict or demurrer, 10 bar TO
THIS rulo is obedience to the policy OF
the law, which requires end TO the litigation after
trial on the merits But there must be at least ono
trial OF right between the parties before there con 10
said TO be m end OF tho dispute, and before former
judgment can avail u bar 10 another suit Concedng
the same subject matter as the former one, the
United States barred from recovery by
reason OF anything alleged In the pleas
The nrst second and fourth pleas are not essentially
different In each the judgment relied on Is that the
said suit is not prosecuted and be dismissed" This
entry is nothing more than tho record OF nonsuit
although tho technical language applicable to such
judgment not used. But the counsel for the plain
TITS deny that this Is the effect OF the ORDER
that the pleas present OF retraxt by
watch tho plaintiff forever closes his action because
that II the defendants would do what they were not
bound TO do pay tho costs, It woud dismiss the SUIT
This announcement does not imply that the Uni.ed
States has no cause OF action, or they had tney IN
tended to renounce IL IL Implies nothing more
than willingness to receive the costs ana
permit tho dismissal OF that particular action.
There is implication that tho cause OF
action adjusted. Nonsuits arc frequently
taken, payment OF costs by the adverse party, IN
order arrange The controversy out OF court, but It
has been supposed that the effect oil such pro-
cceding TO prevent the institution and mante-
subsequent suit Of failure to settle tho
matter in dispute.


The defendants. in consensng to pay the costs on
the withdrawal OF the SUITS gained delay II nothing
more doubtless served their purposc, but the
idea OF turning this withdrawal into an Intentional
abandonm OF the OF action Is an anerthought
The third plea alleges that the former suit was dcn
tical with this and dismissed agreed" by the
Judgment OF tho Court The Court say that whatever
may be the legal meaning in the courts of Kentucky 10
judgment entry dismissed agreed" II 10 plain the
words do not mpart any agreement to terminate the
controversy The plea does not show that the words
estop tho present suit and Is bad. Affirmed Mr.
Justice Davis delivered the opinion.
Year: 1876

James Mansfield, man of intelligence, but clothed
IN rags brought to tho Fityscventh Street Court
yesterday and sent by Judge Kasmire to the care Of
tho Commissioners OF Charities aud Correction. The
charge that he had attempted to take his life
by swallowing an overdose OF audanum, and that his
life was saved only by the timciy use OF n stomach
pump lie admitted the correctness OF the charge but
said he could what else no could have done
than die when on every hand ho was refused employ
ment lie rejected recruit against the
Sioux aud he would rather dic than beg.
Year: 1876

Annie Cohen, aged nineteen, OF No. SIS East
Eighteenth street, brought before Judge Kasmire
at the Finy seventh Street Court, yesterday, a
charge of assautins Tim Connor who is neighbor Of
hers, tho head with poker. She admitted the
assault but her for taking the law into hor
hands was an unusual ono and makes OF her somc-
what OF heroine. She said that her father had Of
late become addicted TO liquor through the companion
ship Of Connor and that the latter refusing to keep
awny from her father shc assaulted him.
Year: 1876

Louis f. French who sentenced to ten years IN
the New Jersey State Prison for completely in the Pal
isado Insurance Frauds at Jersey City, and who had
served only one-nfth OF tho term has been released
He is about TO make some developments that win bring
the real rascals into tho meshcs OF the law wbilo
French who was only the secretary Of the concern
was made to suffer- Charles A. Saca, the president
twice behind the bars IN Jersey City, but Tor somc
known only TO tho District Attorney ne set
at liberty without trial Tho HERALD exposed this
o utrage ON Jersey Justice at the time.
Year: 1876

Lack of space has compelled us TO omit sew
eral interesting articles. These, however.
will appear in our pamphlet, which will be
SO complete and attractive as to deserve the
patronage Of the community.
Year: 1876




LOUISVILLE. March lin regard to
the shower of flesh in Bath county, Pro-
fessor j. Lawrence Smith, the scientist,
says in his analysis Of the specimens ex.
amined: a


in my mind, this matter gives
every indication of being the dried spawn
of the Batrichian reptiles, doubtless that
of frog. They have been transported
from the ponds and swampy ground by
currents of wind, and have ultimately fai-
len on the spot where they were found.
This is no isolated occurrence of the kind,
and having come across mention of several
in the course of my reading, the only way
| can now fix the date. of one is that it is
recorded by Muschenbroeck as occurring
in Iceland in 1915 The matter is describ-
ed by him as being glutinous and fatty.
which softened when held in the hand, and
emitted an unpleasant smell when exposed
to the action of fire. The oyum or egg OF
the Batrichian reptiles is round mass oi
transparent nutritive jelly. in the center OF
which appears small black gobule In
the present case the passage through the
air would have dried up more or less oi
this glutineus mass, So that the interior
as found it, would still be soft and glut
inous. l have desired that more of tht
matter be sent to me; when, if there b.
any modification of these views. I vii
make them known
Year: 1876

This must not only have amused you served to disp,.
of part of the pleasant weather enoyed until with
in the last few days. There is time he Bible says for all
things and better time could been furnished for such
yarns than the past few weeks taking the weather into con
sideraton.


But that it is cold and the weather liable to remain
So we would like to call your attention few facts that
we desire for your consideration.


We would ask you Would you believe man. even il he
was your father if he should tell you that he paid his rent
clerks hire taxes other bills and vet sold GOOD.
less than cost?


"!Ass's Too Thin, and Won't GaAmul"
But WE do claim to sell out our COMPLETE STOCK


on account of ilLheath,
Year: 1876

she felt justified in becoming the wife of a
minister of the Gospel ?-the answer was
"No! She could never have married min.
lister, any way; and besides-"


"Besides WHAT p


She had promised Elkansh Robbins to
marry him.
I But when had this promise been madei
Long and sorely did Brother Parker puzzle
over the matter; and 80 did Mrs. Wilder,
who, in the heat Of her astonishment at that
child's thinkin' Of husband" was heard to
say. that, for her part, she couldn't think how
they got at each otherl Lucy and Kane kept
their own counsel, and the affair in time got
to be spoken of as "happenin' at the camp"
which fact made it more than usually inter.
esting to the neighbors. Small and transient
opposition had our young couple to contend
with. They we're married the next year.
Both are members of the church now, and
Kane was on the Conference Committee for
the last camp.meeting. When people ask If
he got religion at Csdiz, he is wont to answer
that 'that's matter between him and the
Lord !; but if not, he got something most as
good, his eloquent glance finishing theveu.
tence. Elder Robbins will be an indulgent
friend to the next generation in Ammonoo.
sue. And if he should ever lie in tabled state,
and hear little sivery confabulation break
in upon the silence Of the guarded tent" we
may be pretty sure that he will be conve-
niently blind and deaf to what is going on
remembering how sweetly once his Lucys
voice broke the stiffness with, "Yes, Kane"
Year: 1876

The Berlin Prussia volksblxt save: A
switch-tendsr had just taken his place 10
change the track in order to turn a train which
was in sight, SO as to prevent a collision with
another train from an opposite direction. At
this critical moment, on turning his head he
discovered his little boy playing tn the track
Of tho advancing engine. He might spring
to the rescue and remove him safely, but ihen
he would not have time TO turn the switch,
and hundreds Of lives might be loss by his
neglect. In an instant his resolution was
taken. "Lie down!" he shouted 10 hrs boy
and the child. happily accustomed to obedi
ence, promptly threw himself Oh the ground
and the whole train Numbered over him, the
passengers little dreaming how mach their
safety had cost that father. The trembling
man rushed forward, fes,ing to fiud only a
mangled corpse, but M words can express his
JOY AZ seeing his child alive and unframed.
The next day the Emperor. having heard of
the circumstance, sent for the m and pre-.
sented him with medal Of honor for his
brayery.
Year: 1876

Those wise men in Tucson, who are so apt at estimating the population of a county without knowing anything about it, it will be observed, are careful to set their figures thousand or two below that of Pima in making an estimate on Yavapai. Had the Pima Marshal reported 6,ooo which may have been very nearly correct, then doubt less the estimators would not have found more than 4,231 E in Yavapai.
Year: 1876

The next commedietta to be played at Tucson will be entitled, "A temptest in a fea pot" or Swell up and bust" with a grand spectacular denouement in which the lid will be blown from the pot with ter rife explosion The character of the pot will be taken by prominent citizen who is entitled to spell his name like Thompson in the play ef Toodles.
Year: 1876

The fact that q confidential clerk and
cashier in a soap factory was able to
embezzle sum of money Variously esti-
mated Of from three hundred thousand
dollars to seven hundred thousand


dollars in few years, and to escape de-
lection and arrest for nearly two years
after leaving the soap mans employ, in
dicates margin in this essential of the
toilet which is surprising. Nobody sus-
pected that the soap business was so
profitable that soap man could be
robbed at this fearful rate without find
ing it out. Yet the case of Beckwith
shows that the safest place in New York
for dishonest clerk is in a soap factory.


This ingenious business man systematl-
caIly laid aside for himself an increase
of ten per cent on oil the disbursements
of his employers establishment, and
even escaped suspicion for a long period.
It is not of the crime we would speak,
for that is of kind which just now is
common enough, nor of the confidence
of the soap man III lis clerk, but of the
enormous profits OF business which
could stand such drain upon it without
exciting suspicion. What must Mr..
Babbitt's profits have been if Beckwith
was able to appropriate nearly half a
million of dollars out of the establish
ment without even so much as exciting
suspicion Evidently the people of this
country submit to the payment OF enor-
nous prices for the most ordinary neces-
saries of life without 30 much as grumb-
ling. Reasonable profits in the soap
business would not long have withstood
Becl1with's assaults upon Babbitts in
come. AS it is, the crime is not without
its benefits in the exposure. People
may learn from this not only the margin
there is on soap but the enormous profits
exacted by business men for everything
they make and everything they sell;
Indeed, the corner grocer thinks himself
entitled to q profit of from fifty to Q
hundred per cent. for bringing barrel
of potatoes from Washington market
and peddling .. it out by. the small
measure. These exactions, criminally
enormous as they are, do more to keep
our working people in poverty than any
of us have suspected. When clerks CAL
steal a fortune out of a single establish


'ment in few years it is time thatpeople
refused to pay prices that make suct
crimes possible. .-NeaO York Herald.
Year: 1876

Tom Scott, who was convicted on the
charge of masked burglary at Utica, N.
Y, and sentenced to eighteen years in
State prison, was asked by the court If
he had anything to say. He made the
following speech:


have very little to say, your honor,
and perhaps that will be of very little
benefit to me. The verdict of the jury
does not surprise me, after the officers OF
the court had been sworn to take charge
of the jury and then to ohave gone of to q
dance, on fandango, and got into1i.
Gated! Who knows but the jury got
drunk? Who knows what was said &c
them or what was done while the officer
was intoxicated? I am convicted by o
Jury like this. I have very little to say,
but want to thank the gentlemen who
have so ably defended me. x =,
I shall go to Auburn, and may probably
never see you again. I may die q con-
vict, and be dragged to felon's grave.
want you and every man on this jury
aud all around me in this court house to
remember that I am innocent. You
(speaking to the jury and emphasizing
his words by rapping sharply on the
table) have decided my fate for lite; you
have murdered me. Is not eighteen
years lifetime for me9


The court, interupting the speaker,
suggested that he should not upbraid
the jury. Scott continued more calmly


Well, I'll stop here. As for your
self have nothing to say. I think you
charged the jury as we'll as you could.
But, your honor, I wish to say that you
must admit that it was wrong for the
gentleman placed in charge of the Jury
to get intoxicated. One thing more,
your honor. I am twenty-one years OF
age, and hope you will not lecture me
or give me any advice. All that you
have to say may not make me better
nor make mo worse. You can give me
what you please, ten, fifteen. twenty,
fifty or hundred years, and I'll turn of
like q man and say goodbye, but please
do not lecture me. have nothing more
To COW