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Year: 1871

The question of freviving the whipping
post as a punishment for a certain class
Of offenses, is seriously discussed by the
Chicago Times, and other influential
papers. Revolving as the idea of public
whipping is, it is matter of serious
doubt whether it would not have a re.
straining influence in obstinate cases that
will not yield to the miIder treatment of
imprisonment. Whipping would be
peculiarly adapted to the punishment of
wife beaters. Where man has fallen
so low, or is naturally so brutal, as to
habitually maltreat his wife, he is in
sensible to the shame of imprisonment,
and nothing but the lash will impress
him with realizing sense of the enor-
nifty OF his offense. 1t does no good to
fine and imprison these creatures, for in
nine eases out of ten the wife has to pay
the fine, thus depriving herself aud chill
dren of food aud raimeDt to atone for
the injuries and indignities heaped upon
her by drunken husband. 1t would be
better to trice up the offender 10 some
public place, and give him generous
dozen, or three dozen If necessary, on
his naked back. Then, at least as long
as the stripes remained, the remembrance
Of the physical pain would have whole
some and restraining influence on the
natural brutality of his disposition


Humanitarianism is well enough when
dealing with men. but savage beasts can
only be subdued by the lash.
Year: 1871

Mysier erious Affair IN Eighth AveBue-A


Stranger Found in "a Dying Condition.


His skull Fractured-Dead, but Not Iden.


tilted.


sergeant Lowery, OF the Twentieth precinct
Yesterday informed Coroner Young by note OF the
death OF an unknown man, about thirty-sx years OF
age The stranger found the pavement,
corner OF Thrty-sxth street and Eighth avenue, In
an lnsensible and dying condition, bleeding pro-
fusely from wound on the back part OF the head.
While being conveyed to the station house by two
officers the man died. Deceased was about five feet
six inches In height dark complexion, dark halr
and chin whiskers and had blue eyes, lie wore
dark clothing, Panama hat and black and white
striped necktIe.


Police Surgeon Armstrong was summoned and,
after examining the BODY, was OF the opinion that
death had resulted from fractured skull. but
whether the result OF violence or accident OF
course he was unable 10 determine. Captain
Cafrey instituted rigid inauirles In tile neighbor
hood where the man was found, and could learn
nothing calculated to ex plain the mystery. He
found one James Ryder OF 32l West Forty eighth
street. however, who stated that in passing OH the
opposite side OF the avenue, at halfpast O'Clock
A. NJ, he


SAW TWO MEN wBANGLING,
one Of them evidently endeavorng TO get The other
To 20 nome. zen minutes lalef lHe de-
ceased was found az stated above. The
fact OF finding the BODY being noised about
brou ght during the day ABOUT five hundred persons
to view the body, but none OF them were able to
identiy IL up 10 a late hour IN tine afternoon. Much
excitement exists among the people of The twentieth
precinct in regard TO the matter, many fully believ-
ing the man TO have been


FouLLy MURDERED,


while others think deceased received his injuries by
a fail while intoxicated. Late IN the afternoon the
Coroner called AZ the station bonse with his deputy
Dr. Marsh and made q superficial examination OF
the body and in one ofthe pockets found 50 Oh and
small steel Key but letters or papers OF any Kind
winch might lead 10 his Identification. Coroner
Young gave an order for The removal Of the remains
20 the Morgue, where Dr. Marsh Will make post
mortem examination. He Is Ol the 0pinion, nom
partial inspection OF the head, that deceased had
received


FRACTURE OF the SKULL.


The nativity Of deceased is unknown. but appear
anoes indicate that he was n German by birth. III
conversation with Captain Canrey and SER
geant James, Ryder said he heard one
OF the men remark, that blow was In.
tended for me all night" or something
TO that effect. captain CafYrey and his officers are
IN active search OF Information which may tend 10
unravel the mystery at present surrounding the
death Of this stranger,
Year: 1871

ondtionsy Not IN tne least. No. We have done
enough, and would be folly TO attempt to 40
more. The probabilities are that such is the view
taken OF the situation by Admiral Rodgers, for we
hear nothing OF further operations, and we incline
TO the opinion that he is satisfied that no more can
he ACCOMPLISHED with the force M his command.
Year: 1871

The following record win show the changes in the
temperature for the past twenry.four hours in CON-
parison with the corresponding day OF last year, as
macy. HERALD Building corner OF Ann street,
Year: 1871

William Dallon was arrested yesterday and locked
up to answer in the Third Precinct station house
on a charge Of having committed q fatal assault on
Christopher Terrence OF Columbia street, King
by striking HIM On the head with stone. The
injury inflicted on the 2stn OF july and the ply
sicians say there If prospect OF his recovery
Year: 1871

The Department Of Public Parks announce that il
the weather be fine there will be music by Ora
fua's Central Park band at Mount Morris square
tomorrow, August IA, from five TO seven p. M.
Year: 1871

William Tinker, who resides at sos East Thirty
fifth street, had his left leg cut or about twelve
O'Clock yesterday by falling Off the front platform OF
car So Of the Third avenue line the wheels passing
over IL. Re was removed to Bellevue Hospital.
Year: 1871

HNHE ELLIPTIC SEWING MACHINES ARE
Il manufactured and warranted by the Wheeler
& Wilson Sewing Machine Company. The late
and important Improvements enable us to guar
antee to every purchaser that the Elliptic Ma
chine will do more work, better work, and Il
greater variety of work than any other Sewing
Machine now in use. The economy of the Ell
liptc Machine in family is almost incredible
with one, good operator can do the work OF
twelve hands By it the making of garments is
reduced from a question of hours 10 one of min
utes ms the following table will show:


ut not to be understood that the following table the
time to make the garments, but the stitching onyl
Year: 1871

4 TosNESrEp WOMAN an pestercd
with offers. Now never offered u marry a
man. ! never had the presumption 20 say
10 a gentleman, elf YOU Will be my exclusive
companion for life viii support You / will
be a mother 10 your children. As ID congcn-
iality. why We only seen you in company
dress but you please in that. and Il take it
for granted that in all their inTicacics and
complication our natures Will come into per
feet sympathy and consanguinity with each
other" But men will make such PROPOSE
ton after a six weeks acquaintance, when
in reality they know no more Of the woman
whom they ask TO marry them than they do
Of the man in the moon. There arc men
who will propose marriage to US, whose
business whuld keep them two-thirds of the
time in the wilds OF the continent. They
seem u imagine that the honor Of their name
and al lance would be e sufficient compensa-
ton for life spent Jw0-thirds q the c1udi


ton of grass -widowhood, or of one entirely
subject to the provisions OF the hackwoods.
There arc others. coniirGcj iuvalids, who,
because we are pleasing to them, eiec' us to
the station Of their nurses fer life. Others
are as poor as poverty, yet not for moment
do they hesitate 10 ollcr MS shares in their
like poverty. You men are deluded on this
subject of matrimony. You meet n woman
attractive ID You. and forthwith you conclude
that the be all and end all Of her existence
here Is a place in your own private cage,
where she is to sing for your own exclusive
benefit. We propose soon 20 take hand in
this worlds little game we're trying 10
learn from YOU how you've managed SO long,
50 successfully to stock the cards; VIC pro
pose 10 trump our share ofthe tricks and see
that the honors are more equally divided :;
we may not all vote, or Shrek OF oitciate as
platform statuary for Stanton or an Antho-
ny, but things are working 4 new deal ali
around is being quietly shuficd cut, and IN
a year or two more some Of You gentlemen
who deem all woman's fitness 40 be for
making your beds. cooking your food scrub
bing your floors, and rocking your cradles,
will be astonished by the positions held by
us.-Letter to San Frarcisc0 Csr0Rclc.
Year: 1871

MARE AGEs ExTRAoRDNARr.-Tbe New
York co. respondent Of the Chicago Journal
saws two rather novel marriages nave been
brought to his attention. Not long ago the
head Of very old business firm in the me-
tropolis died-soon after the wife ofthe other
member Of the firm was taken away bv death.
The surviving wiiower with nine unmarried
children has now married the survivi ing
widow with seven unmarried children. The
firm il thus pcrpetuat-d in the family. and
sixteen children are brought into the family
fold Not long ago rich widower border
ing on sixty, without children, married a
widow few miles up the Hudson River hav-
ing thirteen children, some of the older ones
being married Ills wife died over thirty
years ago, and during that time he kept aloof
from society, devoting himself entirely to
business. When. therefore, he was married
into the bosom of family all of whose mem


bers endeavored to make it AZ agreeable and
pleasant as possible for him, he experienced
the most agreeable emotions, and became a
decidedly happy man The other day one oi
his old acquaintances in New York jokingly
Year: 1871

Reference; The Man Himself


- The Man Himself came up to attend the
Fair, put up a. the Trotier House, let himself
out to the full extent of his clothing, and an
nounced himself "a " reporter for New Hsmp-
shire papers, sir 80 lie walked about awhile as
though he felt the terrible responsibility that
would rest upon him If be should accidentally
let himself down with his whole weight at once
upon the surface Of the earth, and break through
the thin crust. which is barely sufficient to sup
port his immeuse weight snj in going TO the
north end of the village, where the Fair was
held, he proceeded very carefully. so that the
south end might not tip up.


When about to leave he told the landlord that
he was employed By the Msrthsls Of the FAIR to
report, and they hsd agreed to pay bis hotel bin.
The landlord requested him TO have one of the
Marshsls G. me and verify his statement, and he
went to End one of them. and that was the lsst
Year: 1871

No candid person in the South will de-

 ny that the general experience of the ne- gro since the emancipation has been pro- eress'; that in nearly every respect of his life he exhibits some improvement from that date. Southern men arc not very ready to advertise this to the world they would probably confess it with reluctance to Northern commission of inquiry but in

 private conversation among themselves,

 where no pri le of controversy interposes, they freely admit it and wonder at it. The negro moves. He is showing the greatest eagerness for knowledge and education i; attested by the fact, for which examination

 is challenged, that in the free schools of the South, where he has equal admission,

 there are more black children than white

 ones in proportion to the population of l each race in the given community. So far from becoming the idle vagabond that the | pessimist theorizers would have him after emancipation, he is exemplarily industri- ous attested by the fact that to-day the negro represents nearly all the labor of the South, and admitting this test, that of per- sons in equal condition of poverty and of necessity of work, there are far more poor

 whites than negroes who are idle in the South. Of the vices that were to assail and destroy the negro in his new estate of

 freedom there are no proofs; quite the con trary. The terrible vice of intemperance,

 which has been the usual scourge of weak races, and the almost unfailing incident of precocous civilization, is comparatively unknown among the Southern freedmen. So far from being improvident, the wonder js how the negro economies, gets so many. good clothes and real comforts out of his very scanty wages. As voter he has shown discretion and independence that have nonplused the wisest of our politi. clans. There were white wiseacres who, some time ago, supposed that the negro's vote might be procured by the merest so, licitation, mere wink from his employer {; and a common joke in the South on the Fifteenth Amendment was that the dis franchised white man might buy some cheap old negro to do his voting for him.

 Never was such disappointment. The spectacle has not been uncommon in the South of negro who paid deference to the white man scarcely less than he. had shown in the days of slavery, who possibly yet said "Mas'r," who did his work in all humility and with all subjection, yet go- ing openly to the polls and casting his vote there against the party of his employer Such an instance of self-respect and moral courage is to be admired even by those against whom it acts.-"IHe Romance of the Negro, in October Galasy.
Year: 1871

PROPERTY QUALIFICATIONS IN RHODE Is- LAND. October 9th, the electors of Rhode Island will vote on three articles of amend. ment to the State constitution. The first article .. ttth1deGlsres the, apali ttiafatj all male citizens of the United States of le. gal age, who shall have had their residence and home in the State two years and in the town in which they vote six months next preceding the time of voting, and who shall be able to read the State constitution, and are legally registered. The drawback to the privilege, or the restriction to the grant of power to exercise the privilege of an elec- tor is, by this proposed amendment, mar rowed to the provision, that the voter shall not vote upon any proposition 10 impose a tax, or for the expenditure ofmoney in any town or city, unless be shall have paid a tax within year preceding upon his prop erty, situated in the place of his voting, valued at least at one hundred and thirty four dollars. This is the most important of the three proposed amendments of the constitution of the State of Rhode Island, the additional provisions prohibiting citi- zens of Providence from voting for mem bers of the city Wuncil except possessing 8 similar property qualification. The object of this amendment is to remove the disa-

 bility under which the foreign born and naturalized citizen has been since the adop- ton of the constitution of l843 in place of the old charter. In that constitution, an

 outgrowth and consequence of 'the Dorr war;" the property qualification. which had been required of all, was taken from the requirements of native born citizens. but retained for foreign born. This proposed amendment puts all on the same footing, the property qualification being retained for all in the voting of money and the election of councilmen of the city of Providence.

 Article sixth abolishes the registry tax. and article seventh prevents the imposition .oi 8 tax for the support of denominational or sectarian schools or other institutions is
Year: 1871

CHAPTER CXN1'L An act in addition to ''an act for Assessment

 and Collection of Taxes

 Be t enacted 6y de Senate and House of Representatives iaa General Assembly cOnren- ed:

 That all bonds which may be issued by any own or city in aid of the construction of the railroad of ''the Connecticut Central Railroad Company" in pursuance of legal votes of such town or city as authorized by the legislature of this State, and all bonds which may be is- sued by any town or city to provide or raise money to pay for stock subscribed by such town or city. in aid of said railroad corporation in pursuance of legal votes of such town or city, authorized as aforesaid, shall be exempt from taxation in the hands of the holders of such bonds, provided that whenever the avails of such bonds or stock shall have been ezpend- ed in the construction of the railroad of said corporation, said railroad corporation shall pay tax of one per cent. to the treasurer of this State, upon the amount of such bonds issued by any town or city in aid of the constructing of such railroad as aforesaid, whether such bonds are owned by persons or corporations in this State or elsewhere and upon amount of stock subscribed by any town or city, in aid of the said railroed corporation as aforesaid.

 Approved July 18th, 1871.
Year: 1871

The Richmond Enquirer says:


We yesterday called on one of tn,
ladies conspicuously active in aid of thu
Hollywood Memorial Association, ant
learned from her that their memoria
day falls on the. 3lst of May, and
although there will be no address, the
services promise this year to be unusu
ally interesting.


The ground and walks of that portion
of the Confederate cemetery at Holly
wood allotted to the dead to be removed
from Gettysburg, will be all finished
next week, and the work of removal viii
commence very soon thereafter. TIL,
Legislature appropriated $1,000 in aid o.
this patriotic movement, and the ladies
have obtained $4,000 from other sources
They hope before it is needed to in,
crease this fund considerably. There
are three thousand Confederates buried
at Gettysburg the graves of six hun.
dred of whom are marked, the remain
ing twenty-four hundred being desig-
mated as unknown"


The State appropriation will be de-
voted first TO the removal Of the Vir-
ginians whose graves are marked, and
next, to the removal of all who fell on
that part Of the field where Pickett S
men fought so heroically; the presump-
ton being that these are all Virginians.
After this the remainder of the dead
from all the Southern States will be rs
rapidly removed as circumstances will
permit; the intention of the ladies being
that there shall be no delay until the
whole work has been fully accomplished.
Year: 1871

come interested in the case, and, al
though Harrington was poor man, they
determined to fight his cause to the end.
After long and arduous struggle
through the District and Supreme
Courts, an order for new trial was OBJ
tanned, and that trial has just closed


The main points in the evidence on
which he was convicted were the appa-
rent correspondence of the shot in the
dead man with that in the shot-bag be-
longing to Harrington; the correspond
ence Of pieces of newspaper found near
the scene of the supposed murder, and
assumed to be part of the gun-wadding,
with a torn paper in Harrington's resi-
dcnce and piece in his vest pocket;
and the motive for the murder was to be
found in the alleged fact of Sharp having
come to Toledo with several hundred
dollars of money, which Harrington
knew, and that no one else was so inti-
mate with Sharp. On the second trial
it was rendered doubtful whether here
was similarity in the shot 1t was
clearly proved that the pieces of paper
alleged to have been picked up at the
scene of the murder were not there at
the time Of the finding Of the body, nor
for day or two afterward, and the infer
ence was unavoidable that they were put
there by the detectives to aid them in


working up the case against Harring-
ton.


1t was further proven that Sharp was
destitute when he arrived in Toledo, and
that Harrington was doing his best to
aid him in procuring employment. To
crown all, an dlibi was clearly and salts
factorily proven. Harrington was de-
elared innocent, and the jury volun-
tarily gave him letter, signed by every
member, repeating, in emphatic terms,
their belief of his entire innocence of
any knowledge of the supposed murder,
and bearing testimony to his uniform
good character The public sentiment
unanimously coincided with the verdict.
The former employer Of Harrington i'm
mediately took him back into his service.


1t causes an unpleasant shudder to
reflect that perfectly innocent man, of
good character, suffered two years of
degrading punishment, and narrowly
escaped an ignominious death, for a
crime Of which he knew nothing. 1t is
another warning against placing i'm
plicit trust in wholly circumstsntial evil
dence, and protest against the detec-
tives working up case against one
they choose to suspect.
Year: 1871

We published week or two ago, a
statement in relation to the comparative
virtue of Scotch women, Irish women,
German women, and women of other
nationalities, which showed strongly in
favor of the females of Ireland. The
Pail Mall Gazette affords an explanation
in reference to the Scotch women, who
showed worse, we believe, than all other
nationalities in the statement heretofore
published. That journal says


Among n number of letters which
we have received on the subject of the
morals of the Scotch peasaniry, there is
one from landed proprietor in rural
county returning high proportion -
illegitimate births, in which he gi,, s %.
explanation of the peculiar habits of
the people which seems to deserve atien-
ton. He denies that the high standard
of illegitimacy is really proof Of inn
mortality, and attributes it first to the
marriage laws of the country, and
second-paradoxicnl as it may appear
to the virtue of the women. The fact
that man can at any time legitimize
his children born out of wedlock by
marrying the mother, tends to diminish
the stigma which would otherwise attach
to these unions. The formal ceremony
of marriage has just the same effect as
regards the offspring whether it takes
place before they are born or at any sub
sequent period, and the mothers con-
science is soothed by this reflection;
while as regards her own character she
is potentially an honest woman, for she
can be made so-as the phrase goes
whenever she and her lover agree 10
marry in due form. And as q rule
Scotchwoman of the lower orders is
proverbially faithful to her lover, and
ultimately marres him."
Year: 1871




From the Hartsville Tenn.) Vidette.l


An incident in the career of the Hon.
Thomas b. Monroe who for over twenty
five years occupied the position of Fede-
raj Judge in Kentucky, will illustrate the
high purity of his character, and may
serve to remind the Judiciary Of our day
how eonscientiously Judges Of the olden
time held the scales Of justice.


A student in the Judges law school
one day asked him if, in deciding a case,
he ever felt any bias or prejudice for or
against the parties The Judge promptly
said: Never but once. I'll tell you the
story. There was an important case,
which was argued with great ability be-
fore me by the most distinguished law
yers at the bar of Frankfort, and it took
two weeks in trial. Every morning as
the court opened little woman, dressed
in black, modestly and unassumingly
came into court, as il unseen, and took
her seat near the door,


Just before the court adjourned she
retired, not without making always a
courtesy. Il attracted my attention. and
/ inquired who she was. i was told that
she was party to the suit then on trial.
When the cause was submitted, and i
was preparing my opinion, | found it
impossible TO dismiss from my mind the
little woman and her courtesy. / began
TO doubt whether l could do justice in
the case. studied the matter very
closely, and finally decided in her favor.
1t involved the title TO all she possessed
in the world. / never" said the old
Judge, was entirely satisfiedghat my
decision was correct until it was finally
unanimously affirmed by the Supreme
Court Of the United States. / feared
my judgment had been warped by the
simplicity and delicacy Of a little woman
in black.