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THE ADVERTISER,
THURSDAY, DEC. 30. 1875.
The i Omaha Bee agrees with us on
the extra session question, and of
course is right.
Btnilb. who murdered Collina last
Summer near Kearney is incarcerated
at Lincoln for safe keeping.
Wo. M. Tweed, the "boss," is re
ported to be in Cuba. Gentlemen
who know him have telegraphed that
he Is in Havana.
Washington dispatches say that the
President is not favorable to granting
pardons to Joyce and others convict
ed of criminal practices while govern
ment revenue officers.
It is believed by Nebraskaus at
Washington that our contingent con
gressman elect, Pat O. Hawes, will
surely be admitted to a seat sometime
during the present session of congress.
Hon. W. A. Richardson, of Quincy,
111., died In that city on the 27th inst.
of paralysis, in the 64th year of his
age. He served five terms In con
gress from 111., and filled out Doug
las' unexpired term in the senate.
The grand jury at Louisville, Ky.,
recently Indicted ten gentlemen for
betting on the late election in that
city. The law of Kentucky confis
cates money or property bet on elec
tions, and adds it to the school fund,
besides fining the betters.
A dispatch from Sioux City of the
27tb, says, "At an eleotion held in
Dakota and Dixon counties, Nebras
ka, to-day, on the question of issuing
bonds to the Covington, Columbus
and Black Hills railroad company,
the bonds were voted by a four-fifths
majority. Work on the road will be
gin ajtpnce."
The white -leaguers of Mississippi,
In many of the counties, have sworn
to drive away or kill every republican.
What boast was that made in congress
the other day about freedom of speeoh
and opinion, in the face of such wit
nesses as every day rise up and con
demn the democraoy? Verily was It
not a lie and a delusion ?
question seems Co be not where will it
do the most i'h1, but who has the
most cash to give, Omaha cau have
the Methodist universaty if the rich
men there wai.t it. -Although it will
be as difficult for any of them to get
into heaven as it is for a came) to go
through the eyo of a needle, yet do
they of this terrible ban absolutely
control, in such Important matters,
the cburcli militant.
The following account of a robbery
at Hastings, Neb., on last Thursday
night, we take from the St. Joeeph
Herald. About 8 o'clock in the eve
ning, the agent of the B. & M. road,
Mr. Mastin, went down from his home
to the depot to see if the cars on the
side track were in proper position.
Passing two that were linked together,
two men suddenly jumped from be
tween the cars, and throwing a hand
ful of red pepper in his eyes' grasped
him by the throat, threw him down,
and snatching his pocket-book from
his pocket, took out the money, $53o.
After ohoking him until he -was ex
hausted, they jumped and ran. As
soon as Mastin could recover his voice
he gave the alarm. Search was made
for the robbers, but they were not
found. The next morning two men
were arrested on suspicion, but after
a close examination, were released.
Five hundred dollars of the money
belonged to the road, the remaining
thirty-five dollars was Mastin's.
for private purposes. Not a dollar of given streets, side walk- ninl tiiitt. rs.
the capital was ever paid in. Charles Considerable attention pid to shrub
M.Strauss, clerk of the compauy, . bery, vines, gardens and shade trees.
The Tecuraseh Fire.
Recently at Providence, R. I., a
drunken husband killed by a kick his
child in its mother's arms. The cor
oner's jury rendered a peculiar ver
.dict, that the saloon keeper from
whom the father purchased the liquor
that made him drunk, was guilty of
the murder of the child. The father,
-whoso name was Philip Gallager, was
also arrested.
The new postmaster of the House
of Representatives, says a Washing
ton letter, Was a rebel cavalryman,
and he imagines he is on a raid at
present. A few hours after his elec
tion he went to the postofflceand was
received courteously by Mr. Sher
wood, the retiring officer, by whom
he was Informed concerning the
duties of the office. Mr. Sherwood
advised him to retain one or two of
the present employes in ordei to
lnduot the new force into office. "No
Sir; G d d n them, I'll bounoa
them all." And he bounced them.
On the 6th of January a narrow
gauge railroad convention will be
held at Lincoln, for the purpose of
organizing a company to construct a
narrow gauge road from Lincoln to
Denver, through the Republican
Villey, Lancaster, Seward, Saline,
FU nore, Gage, Jefferson, Thayer,
Nuckolls, Webster, Franklin, Harlan,
Furnas, Red Willow, Hitchcock and
Chase are called to send delegates to
said convention, and all will heartily
respond no doubt, as it will be greatly
to the benefitof that fine portion of the
state to promptly inaugurate some
steps for a railroad at an early day.
The Philadelphia JPress says the
present Democratic House of Repre
sentatives has, by a vote of 126 to 99,
declared for the removal of eleven
maimed soldiers now acting as door
keepers and messengers, eaoh one of
whom bos lost a leg or an arm, or
both, in battle In defense of his coun
try. Mr. Fort, of Illinois, Is entitled
to the credit of having thus drawn
the first fire of the enemy.
Firing on the wounded used to be
considered an atrocity of the most
indefensible kind, but the new dem
ooratle house do notseem to have any
scruples on the subject."
The fire fiend visited our neighbor
ing city, Tecumseh, last Thursday
morning, and got up quite a blaze.
The row of K Mdlnga commencing at
the corner "'tves the street west from
the Sherman house and extending
west were all destroyed except the
old Pacific house on the northwest
corner of the block. Tho Herald's
account of the losses sustained by var
ious parties, says :
Mrs. Stewart's millinery store; S.
P. Tingle's harness shop and dwell
ing house ; J. G. Jones' barber shop
and bath room ; Limp & Devanney's
billiard hall; Albright & Hare's fur
niture store; the old bowling alley;
P. Keleher's billiard hall; three
buildinjrs for C. N. Mayberry and a
dwelling house owned by 8. S. Rogers
were ail destroyed The loss is vari
ously" estimated from $10,000 to $20.
000. Mrs. Stewart's loss is about $1,
500; 8. Tingle, $500; Limp & Deven
ney, $1,200; they saved nothing; Al
bright & Hare, $200; C. Huntley,
$3,000; Keleher&McSwinuy, $1,500;
C. N. Mayberry, $1,500 andS. S. Rog
ers $1,000.
Keleher & McSwinney saved their
billiard tables, stock of liquors, &c.
The origin of the fire is not known,
but it is generally supposed, however,
to be the work of incendiaries.
Fortunately there was no wind at
the time, or the damage would un
doubtedly have been ten times great
er than what it now is. It is the
greatest calamity that lias ever befall
en our city, and Jt will be some time
before she recovers from its effects.
As to where the fire started there
seems to be conflicting opinions. One
is that it started in thesaioon of Limp
& Devenuey, and another that itorlg
inated in the furniture store of Al
bright & Hare.
The Chieftain says, "a fact that
gives intensity to this calamity is that
there was not a dollar's worth of in
surance on any of this property, and
but few of the owners of the lots are
able at this time to rebuild ; and
while none of the sufferers are left
entirely destitute, their losses fall
heavily upon all, and is a disaster to
the entire community."
Tecumseh, like Brownville, is ab
solutely without water, so far as its
availability in a conflagration is concerned.
was indicted for perjury in making
affidavit as to the capital, and other
officers will be similarly served. -
The King of Siam lias joined the
royal list of authors, with a small
CA'clopsed&oa-Siara-statistics of lit
erature, politics, geography and his
tory. W. M Hixon recently Bhot and
killed brother-iu-Iw Jos. Garrett.
Both residents of Republic County,
Kas.
Some fivp or six persons were re
cently killed in South Boston by the
explosion of a gas main, and several
wounded. The pipe ran along under
a pavement, which was torn up by
the explosion for 150 feet, While
thronged with people.
J. I. Sullivan of St. Joe. Mo., on
the 23d, hanged himself uutil dead
because the father of the girl ho loved
objected to their marriage.
4n Arkansas- colored woman has
received a judgment of $100 at Little
Rock, againsl a St. Louis railroad
company, for refusing her a seat in
the ladies' car.
Three car loads of silk worm eggs
were recently shipped from SanFran
cisoo to New York. They ore valued
at $6,000,000.
There have been 74 murders in the
judicial district including Carson and
Panamint, Nov., and not one conviction.
Ex-Senator Nye of Nevada, has so
far recovered! his mind that he has
been taken from the insane asylum.
His complete recovery is hoped for.
The largest polished plate ever ex
hibited was the work of the Thames
Plate Glass Company of England,
measuring 19 feet 5 inches long, and
ten feet 3 inches wide.
Rose, honeysuckles, &o., yet in full
bloom. May not there be as much
solid comfort ond contentment witli
such-surroundings, as amid the whirl
and excitement Incident to the devel
opment of a new country ? An open
question, to say the least.
To those at, or past, the meridi
an of life, with fixed associations,
habits and ideas of life's routine, there
is eeidom an inclination to make final
changes from one extreme of country
to another. The north has many ad
vantages not to be found in thesouth,
and the south many not obtainable in
the north. Superiority in atmosphere
is claimed by both sections. Could
the forenoon of life be spent in the
nortii, and the afternoon and evening,
as it were, in the south, length of
days and additional pleasure, doubt
lees, could be secured. It Issaid "the
south winds are life winds, the north
winds death winds." Be that true or
not, this is certain, that each succeed
ing winter in the north becomes more
wearing to most constitutions.
After 'perhaps a week more sojourn
here and hereabouts in southern Ala
bama, business will take me Into Flor
ida, where I mean to see and note
the land of tropical fruits and flowers,
and may again drop you a line.-
Sanbuf.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
LETTER FROH ALABAMA.
W. W. Embry, the man who at
tempted to assassinate Col. Anthony,
editor of the Leavenworth Times, has
had his trial and been acquitted. A
Leavenworth dispatch accounts for
this unexpected result as follows:
The known and expressed opinions
of some of the jurytneu sumu.oned,
settled the fact as to their verdict be
fore the testimony was taken. The
trial by such a jury was a farce. Solid
men who were summoned, had all
formed and expressed an opinion and
were challenged off tho jury for a
cause.
GENERAL NEWS.
Gleaned from our Exchanges
Telegraphic Reports.
and
Mr. Brewer, agent and correspond
ent of the St. Joe. Herald has incur
red the dlspleasme of many of the
citizens of Kearney City for a com
munication he "wrote concerning the
people of that city in connection with
the killing cf Collins by the herder
Smith. Tho Kearney Times slashes
"Apex" severely, and the city mar
shal the other day, while "Apex"
was in that city unlawfully assaulted
him personally. This very unofficial
act of the marshal, if winked at and
tolerated by the people, will go far in
justifying the opinion that ttie observ
ance of law and order at Kearney is
somewhat below par, that the people
are too much on tb ruffian order, like
the Texas herders, one of whom they
are going to hang.
On the 24th inst. the M- E. Confer
ence trustees had a meeting in Omaha
for the consideration of the location
of the churoh university for Nebras
ka, which it was resolved by the late
annual conference should be built. A
proposition has been made to Omaha
that if the city will give a bonus of
300 acres of land in one body, and
$10,000 in cash, the university will be
located;there. It is -said that Omaha
will In.alJ probability furnish the re
quisite subsidy. Plattsmouth has
offered $50,000, which is exceedingly
liberal for so.small a city,, and seyeral
interior towns have made some effort
to secure that Institution ; but as the
A painter named Frank Hart man,
in Indianapolis was killed by the
breaking of a scaffold, on the 23d.
A. W. Hubbard. Henrv F. Ed
wards, and George W. Malnne, count
erfeiters, were sentenced in the
United Statbs district court at St.
Louis, last week to five years in the
penitentiary.
Wm. Eddy, the noted spiritualist,
has left Vermont and located in Col
orado. On the 18th., at Boonsboro, Mo., a
man named Mitchell, struok Joseph
Thome on the head with a club and
killed him.
Geo. Hunter, colored, and Geo. Dav
idson a white man, of Kas., had an
altercation about their cattle, on the
-Int. ult., when Hunter shot and
killed Davidson.
Tho cotton crop of 1875 Is said to be
about 4.000,000 bales.
Mrs. Tilton, who resides with her
mother in Brooklyn, was presented
with $400, the other evening, by a
number of friends.
Twenty-oue Illinois railroads are
bankrupt and in the bands of receiv
ers. The British Parliament will meet
on the 8tb of January next.
The number of hogs killed at Cin
cinnati this season was 239.S74; for
the same time last year, 253,043.
Senator Jones of Nevada, has had p,
private car built for the c-kciusive use
of himself. It is a riohly furnished
house on trucks, and cost Sllr.OOQ.
A oompany in Massachusetts organ
ized six months ago as the Bingham
Manufacturing company, with a cap
ital sto ok of $100,000. has gone into
bankruptcy withjiabllltier of. a $180.
000 and no assets, $150,000 of the Ifa-
oimies oeiqgJn. notes, the money ob
tained on which was used by officers
Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
Greenville, Dec. 19, 1875.
Have been here for a day or two,
coming from Washington via Alex
andria, Fairfax, Culpepper and
Lynchburg, Virgiula; Greenville and'
Knoxvllle, Teun.; Atlanta, Ga.. and
Montgomery, Ala. the "Virginia
Midland" route. While there was
nothing particularly attractive to me
on this trip, there was much to inter
est. A prtion of the region traversed
having been occupied for over two
oenturies, it was peculiarly interest
ing. We intuitively revere antiqui
ty. Even our own humble birth
place; the haunts of childhood with
their surroundings. Who does not
retrospect with pleasure the old
spring and its meandering branch ;
the "foot-bridge across the creek ;"
the "sugar camp," where juvenile
rompings were indulged; the "mill
down by the brook ;" "the stile upon
which we sat, Mary ;'' and the fishing-hole
beneath the weeping elm,
from which the sporting shiner was
drawn ? Mucli of the land, especial
ly in Virginia, has been worn out and
turned over to nature for recupera
tion. Has become re-forested, and
again re-subjugated, and still ogaiu
worn out, and turned out, and now as
densely stocked with pine and oak as
our bluff lands adjacent to the Mis
souri river. Singular the changes in
timber productions I Where once the
oak forest prevailed, the pine takes its
place, and vice versa the oak takes the
place of the pine. In the wonderful
revolutions of nature may not our
treeless prairies one day become the
timber regions? Whence these pine
and oak seed ? Have they slumbered
for ages, only to come forth at bid
ding, or as "in tho beginuiug crea
ted?" On this line of road are to be seen
continuous, neglected fields, charred
remains of buildings, decaying earth
works, and other evidences of devas
tation of surging hostile armies. The
ubiquitous darkey, dilapidated single
mule and anoient two wheel cart put
in an appearance "all along the line."
Every thing looks ancient." The
soil generally red ; about the color of
a well burned brick with us. So in
fluencing, too, that it imports red legs
to cattle and horses, red bellies to the
pigs, red wool to the sheep, and red
hair and freckled faces to the negro!
Corn stalks are but a trifle larger than
the finger, and not higher than a me
dium sized man's shoulder. To gath
er corn one stoops to reach tho ear.
The soil is more adapted to small
grain and fruit, and yet "but little
fruit, comparatively, grown. In
these respeots the soil has been high
ly productive, and no reason why it
cannot be made so again, with intelli
gent scientific treatment and labor.
The cultivation has been of the sur
face order, and left too much to the
judgment and manipulation of the
ignorant colored people. The wither
ing and blighting iufluenceof former
slavery Is everywhere observable.
The same influences, to an extent at
least, must continue for some time to
come. I speak generully. There are
Rome instances in which well man
aged farms are to be seen, and with
most favorable results, which go to
confirm the idea of what can be done.
Lessons of economy, perseverance
and frugality are here to be learned.
Every spear the soil produces Is hus
banded and utilized, Corn, corn
blades, husks, and even the bare
stalks, are harvested separately and
marketed, and where good manage
ment prevail, everything possible iB
returned to the soil. Many places the
ground is so full of rooks that there is
not room enough on the acre where
they were gathered to pilt tljem up.
As a rule, there seems to be more of a
disposition to be content with com
fortable homes, than to seek useless
luxuries. Fqw. "palatial residences
on the bluffij adjacent to the rural
village," as Capt. IJoore would say.
The hotel at which I am stopping, in
a town o five thousand inhabitants,
called "first-class," is well kept has
iiit Ruaipei uu a uoor, nor a stove in.
a. room. Only the old-fash ipned. fire
place is to, be found. The floor as
neat and olean as a centre table.
Rooms and windows large, and ceil-
intra hlcrh. Rrrnnlir -,, nttAu.-
or o .wwj -ujr UDUWUU
Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
Washington, Dec. 21, 1875.
Many of your readers will doubtless
be surprised to hear from me here,
supposing the writer to be luxuriating
in government employ in Wyoming.
I remember somewhere and sometime
reading of a horse that had been used
many years in grinding bark in a
tannery. Finally, when broken
down by age, its owner concluded to
turn him out in a field, there to pass
his remaining dayB in quietude aud
re3t. But so habituated had the poor
animal become to the labor of his
life, that instead .of lying down or
browsing about, he insisted in des
cribing a circle in the field as was his
wont in the tannery. A'fter .many
years of active toil in the editorial
mill, my-friends concluded to put me
in another field; but it was iucom
patable with my feelings and inclina
tions, and I soon threw the position
up, informing those who seoured my
commission tiiat I would rather edit
a paper in Nebraska than be Minister
to the Court of St. James. Aud so I
would and I believe the day is not
fur distant when I will again resume
my position among the Fabershovers
of my favorite state.
Congress has at last got Into work
ing shape. Yes, to-day Kerr appoint
ed his oommittees, and then both
houses adjourned. No speaker made
such a hotch-potch in selecting com
mittees. Republicans areall laugh
ing aud democrats all swearing at it.
Fernando Wood, the oldest democrat
in the house, is denied the cliairmau
ehipof any committee. Sara Cox is put
off with the chairmanship of the
committee on bankB and currency.
West Virginia Is honored with the
chairmanship of committee of com
merce. Could anything be more ab
surd? Virginia is given the chair
manship of tiie educational committee,
whereas it is well known that Virgin
ia stands at the foot of the column of
states in the line of educatiou. Mor
rison, of Illinois, a man of small
ability, is given the most Important
and commanding position, that of
chairman of committee of ways and
means. The chairman of the com
mittee on territories is Southard.
of Zauesville, Ohio, who is now on
his first visit to Washington, and
never saw a territory save from a oar
window. That position should have
been given Goodin of Kentucky, or
some other democrat acquainted with
the wants of the territories, and liv
ing adjacent thereto. A. H. Steph
ens is on the committee on weights
and measures. He weighs about as
much as a small gold nugget, but his
intellectual status is meritorious. I
might comment further, but will only
add that Kerr came very near forget
ting Crounse, and finally put bim on
the tail end of the melish committee.
How many meiitia hasNebrnskagot?
Kerr was the Omaha Herald's fa
vorite candidate, yet when the bill to
admit Nebraska and contiguous ter
ritories was pending, Kerr voted
against the reconstruction laws, as
also against tbe act prohibiting the
pa3mentof bounties to former own
ers of slaves, and advocated the pay
ing for slaves drafted into the militia
service this, too, four years after the
emancipation proclamation, and ayear
after the collapse of the rebellion. He
voted against restoring to union men
their lands and other property confis
cated by the rebel government, which
but few copperheads were shameless
enough to do. When the fourteenth
amendment was up before the house,
which amendment provides that ail
persons horn or naturalized in the
United States, are citizens and that
no state shall make or enforce any
law which shall abridge the privilege
and immunities of such citizens; al
so providing that the public debt in
curred in the payment of pensions
and bounties shall not be questioned,
but that all debts incurred in aid of
the rebellion, or any claim for the
loss of any slave, shall be illegal and
void Mr. Kerr distinguished himself
by bitterly opposing the proposition.
Such is the man the Omaha Herzlg
endorses. For one, I am glad he is
elected speaker ; he will make many
votes far the republican party. I
should have alluded above to his se
lection of Proctor Knott as chairman
of the judiciary oommittee. Knott is
a Kentucky lawyer, whom nohady
but Kexr-would ever have thought of
thus promoting. You have a demo
cratic lawyer in Nemaha county (ia
the country), whom I will not name,
but whom tbe average reader will
readily guess, who would fill the bill
fully as well.
There, are quite, a number of-Nebras-kians
here ju6t now. Col. O. H. Irish
has been here for some time. Pat
Hawes is knooking at the doors of
congress for admission, with very fair
chances of getting in. If any body
could Pat is tbe chap, and is was upon
this hypothesis that induced his nom
ination. Frank Rother, of Nemaha
county, is in the pension office. He
is a clever gentleman, and an efficient
agent of the government. Brake, fa
miliarly known as "Gen. BIck," and
Peake, two dyed-in-the-wool Demo
crats, are here. All summer they
have enjoyed fat positions under the
government. Now they are singing
"to tbe victors belong the spoils,"
and are seeking $6.00 per diem clerk
ships of Democratic house commit
tees. Until congress met they
thought politics should not obtrude in
appointments, and in their case it did
not though I always thought it
should. John B. Furay, the old P. O.
detective, is here, and was re-commissioned
n Saturday. Gen. Vifquin is
also here.
But this Is probably as much of a
dose as your readers should be forced
to take, and I will give them a rest.
C.
i m
OUR SEW TORE LETTER.
Tbe Causes of Crime Tbe Distress of tbe Tear
and bow it Is Met A Murder a Week
Sympathy for Murderers Feminine De
votionThe Shorr Girl Question
Tweed Beeeher Bnsiness.
Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
New York, Dec. 27, 1875.
THE CAUSES OF CRIME.
The committee investigating the
causes of crime in this city are un
earthing some terrible facts. Among
others is the testimony of one of the
first physicians of the city, Dr. Eiisha
Harris, who declared thattheincrease
of criminals in this city in the past
few years was greater in proportion
than the increase of the population
from births and immigration togeth
er. Dr. Wlllard Parker, an authority
of equal standing, said that liquor
was the chief cause of tbe vice, crime,
idiocy and insanity in the country.
All who have looked into the cause
and cure of crime agree that the vic
ious classes mu9t be made to work
harder. It is a notorious and patent
fact that with all tbe increase of wa
ges and regulation of hours in the
last ten years, the condition of the
lower classes does not seem to be the
better for the change. The complaint
is made by all employers that there is
very little, almost no fair return made
for the wages paid, no matter how lib
eral these may bp. Tin average of
work done In a day with all the labor
saving helps of the time, is hardly
half wiiat it used to be in the old
times. Now, that there is such an
outcry for work, employers bethink
themselves whether they cannot ob
tain their own right to a" day's work
for a day's pay. The fact has rather
been lost sight of, that employers had
any rights beyond that of paying the
the most wages for the very least that
stupid and idle help chose to do. Now
that the cry for bread comes so urgent
there is a chance to find whether the
poor are willing to work for their
money rather than starve. Those of
experience among the lower classes of
NewYork, are not wanting who do
not hesitate to say that these had
rather starve than work hard. Cer
tainly they will all beg, loaf, or oheat
In a mild way, sooner than stir them
selves to do a brisk day's work.
THE DISTRESS OF THE POOR.
Curious incidents come up among
the labors for the poor. One woman
was found with her five children in
the sixth story of a wretched tene
ment house, where she made a miser
ble living by washing. Her
children were withouc shoes in
bitter weather, and a kind merchant
sent a supply all round. The oldest
girl objeoted to them because they
were laced with shoestrings, and but
ton boots were the stj'le. The same
family lost their father, a miserable
wretch, who drank himself to death,
and were obliged to ask for charity to
bury him. The teachers of tbe mis
sion school who helped them before,
agrepd to bear the expenses, whereup
on the old woman went out and order
ed a hearse, with plumes, to attend
the funeral of the departed sot. A
member of the city authorities told of
a poor fellow who had seen better
days, who came to him for help as be
was without a position, or money.
The official handed him a five dollar
bill, which he could spare none too
well himself, but he was rather sorry
for it, when he found tbe first use tbe
fellow made of it was go to the mark
te and order a pair of ducks for din
ner, taking moBt of the money which
might have kept tbe family in food
for a week.
This may be considered apropos of
fthe study of crime, for such shiftless-
ness is a orime not of the least dimen
sions. It ought to count heavily
against the laboring men of this and
other cities, that with the high wages
of the last ten years, very few of them
have saved money. The idea at the
time was to make money, not to save
it, and to make it in many ways be
side working for it.
ONE A WEEK.
A murder a week seems the regular
allowance, notcountingthe homicides
of less degree. The last sad and
shocking tragedy is that of a young
Hebrew girl who has not been long in
this country and who was brutally
killed by her betrayer last Sunday
night. The parties both have the rep
utation of being exceptionally relig
'.6us, and careful in observing &H Hie
rites of cneir Church, and the girl
was much beloved by the family of
the murderer. While aservantin thf
family she nursed him through a lone
illness, and he seems to have really
loved her In zetuijn. But his wife
was coming over from the old country
and there was trouble ahead, and no
way presented itself outof the diffi
culty, but murder. So he took the
girl to walk with him in the lonely
outskirts of East New York. Aqd
stabbed, her, kneeling at his feet for
mercy.
Hebetraved himself by his anxle'v' bis own canoe without any inter-
And speaking of the murders, there
are at this time four men under sen
tence to be hanged, and over thirty in
the various prisons are waiting trial
for the name ofivnse.
The bloody villain Dolan, who kill
ed Noe, will probably escape the
hanging he so richly deserves. The
politicians are moving heaven and
earth to clear him, and as they have
succeeded In obtaining two respites
ho will doubtless slide out ail togeth
er. There ore in the same prison
three negroes couvicted of killing a
Jew Peddler on no stronger evidence
than that against Dolan, but no one
thinks of moving a respite for them.
And while I am on this subject,
THE SYMPATHY
shown for murderers is something cu
rious. I was at the prison, the other
day, and saw broiled chickens, wine,
rich cakes aud confeotionry, the
ohoicest cigars that had been sent In
to comfort these miserable murderers.
Tbe low-browed brutes are living bet
ter now than they ever did in their
lives, and they seem to expect It.
They growl, and consider themselves
ill used, if they do net get these
things every day. It is a nice thing
to be a murderer for a little while.
FEMININE DEVOTION.
It is a thousand pities that the he
roio devotion shown by women in
humble stations of life could not find
worthier objects. There is a young
woman dying in a hospital of wounds
given by her lover in a drunken fit, In
which he twisted her arm till he
broke it; yet the girl steadfastly re
fuses to Bay one word about the quar
rel for fear of making trouble for him.
If she dies without giving her testi
mony he cannot be convicted, as sho
was the only witness. There was
good blood in that girl, no matter
what she was, and a stout heart better
worth song and story than any we
read about this j ear. Tbe brute goes
out without trouble, through the de
votior. of the girl; but all the same,
he leaves her to die miserably in a
hospital.
THE SHOP-GIRL QUESTION.
The shop girls are moving for their
rights. It appears that they are com
pelled to report for duty at 8 A. M.,
and stay till 7 P. M., with an hour for
lunoh at noon. What they complain
of now is the regulation that is made
in all the stores, from Stewart's down,
that they cannot sit down during
trade hours. No matter whether
there be customers or not, no matter
if there be not a soul In the store, the
poor girl must stand on her feet till
the welcome stroke of twelve gives
her an hours respite. And then from
one to seven she stands again, till
worn out with fatfirne she crawls to'
her wretched lodgings, only to go
througli the same torture the next
day. A nuraberof influential ladies,
the most prominent in fashionable cir
cles in the city, have taken the mat
ter In hand, and have petitioned the
leading merchants to abrogate this
rule, and permit the girls to sit when it
can be done without inteferring with
their duties. They have examined
some of the girls and found them all
afllioted with varicose veins, weak
ness of the spine, and more or less
with female diseases, oil of which.
medical men say, results from this
practice. The merchants, in defense,
say that to alter the rule would be to
do away with discipline, and impair
the efficiency for their help, and that
they will not change tiie rule. The
girls do this fearful amount of work
for wages ranging from $8 to $7 per
week, and as It is, were they all to
quit to-morrow, there would be ten
thousand not only willing but anx
ious to take their placps. And they
have intimated to the benevolent la
dies that they had better mind their
own business.
But what I wanted to get at is this :
What kind of a life is it that a girl
leads tiiat compels her to work twelve
hours per day for $8 per week? She
pays $6 for her board, for which she
gets a little hall bed-room without fire,
and the vilest table imaginable. Her
washing she does partly herself, but
that which she has to have done costs
her at least $1 per week. This leaves
her a dollar for clothes and what lux
uries she has. And miserable as this
life is, there are twenty thousand girN
in this city to-day who would cry for
joy to get it. rhe numbers who live
in garrets on such food as they can
get for almost nothing is appalling.
Is It any wonder that the bagnios are
full to overflowing, and that suicides
are of daily occurrence? Itseemstome
that life on such terms would hardly
be worth having.
TWEED
Is still non est, and the meaning of it
is that no one knows or can imagine
whereto look for him. The officials
have a dozen theories, but as not one
thm lead to the place where be Is,
they might as well have none. The
general impression is that he is in
good hiding In this city, waiting till
he can make terms with the city for
an unconditional release. This may,
or not, be the correct Idea, but wheth
er the venerable thief la in New York
or Beltdum. he is doubtless waiting
for a settlement in a very safe place.
His counsel are preparing the way in
the courts already, and when they net
througli work the Bos will make his
appearance and take charge of the city
once more. There is no danger of
his ever being caught. He had his
plans too well laid, and there are too
msny prominent men iuterested In
his escape for that.
BEECHER.
Plymouth Churoh, Is at last, acting
on the offensive. Beecherund Shear
man, his lawyer, have decided to no
no longer be q.ulet b.'Jt to strike back.
They have refused AJrs. MuJton's de-
maud for an investigation, they
have squelched Deacon West, and
they have said toother Congrega
tional Churches that were Interfering
with Plymou.th, "What are you,
go.ing to do about it?" In short,
llatL h 1 j? . a 41 is tMnAero w n n rl 11 l m
JjrUlimr XJetruiiC jj,innca i.v pouuin,
don't care a straw whether the Con
gregational body recognizes it or not.
Of course, the other Churches will
refuse to consider It as a member of
the general body, and Plymouth
church will stand alone an indepen
dent body an association all by Itself.
Mrs. T. Is keeping a boarding house
in Brooklyn, and her daughter Flor
ence Is doing copying for lawyers.
Theodore Is lecturing in the west.
Beeoher, now that he has taken the
step, Is happy once more.
BUSINESS.
There Is no such thing as business.
The merobants are doing nothing,
that is the wholesalers. The retail
people are doing a fair holiday trade,
and that is all. When I say fair, I
should say light, for it is not so heavy
by half as that of former years. All
other lines of trade are as dull as dull
can be. Thank your stars that you
are not in New York. Pietbo.
WHITE LEAGUERS AT TVOBE.
In Indication of the Way things are
in Mississippi.
Jackson, Miss.. Deo. 24. Deputy
Internal Revenue Collector Bedmond
reports that in the prosecutlou of his
duties he has been driveu from his
office and home by bodies of armed
white leaguers. His division com
prises Adams, Wilkinson, Amite,
Pike, Franklin, and Lincoln counties,
and his trouble is the outcome of his
republican standing in tbe late eleo
tion. The leaguers defy the United
States authority, and he has tele
graphed for instructions. The diffi
culties are confined to Amite and Pike
counties, and were occasioned by
democrats of Amite county who have
sworn to kill every republican in the
county. Not content with driving
every officer of importance out of thp
county, they have attacked a United
States officer and followed him to
Pike county, from which place he has
barely escaped with his life to Jackson.
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