NEWS OFTHE WEEK — Commodore C. K. Garrison died on the 1st, at his residence, in New York. —The President on the lst, uppoin- ted Jolin Goode, of Virginia, to be So- licitor General in place of Samuel F. Phillips, resic.ed; William MM, Mer- rick. of Maryland, Asscciate .Jnstice of the Supreme Court of the District of Ootumbia, in place of Andrew Wylie, resigned; E. Hale of North Carolina, to be U. 8S. Consul at Manchester, Eng- and, in place of A. i) Shaw, suspen- ded; Thoms M. Ferrail to be Internal Revenue Collector for the First District of New Jersey, in place of Williae P, Tatem, suspended: Spruille Braden to be Assayer at Bose City, 'daho, in piace of Norman LI. Camp, suspended, and George Hayes, to be Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels for the Fifth District, in place of Mark D. Flower, suspended, ~The Illinois Legisiature, fn joint session, on the 1st, went through the usanal motions of giving scattering votes on a ballot for U, S. Senator, "The whole force of the construction department at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was discharged. It is said other re- ductions will follow, as & consequence of the reduced appropriations, -—The public debt statement for April shows a decrease of $5,464,500 —The total coinage of the U, S, mints during April amounted in value to $4,423,500, and included 2,410,000 standard dollars, and Columbia railroad was thrown from the track near Columbia, Pa., on the 1st, by a defective frog. The locomo- tive tumbled down a fifteen-foot em- aged. John Hauck, fireman, was killed, and Henry Rightsell, anothe: train hand, was fatally injured. Tw i i i i jured, took place on the 1st. Ii was won by the sophomore crew in 11.13} hind, '88 and 86 third and fourth. The President on the 2d, appointed were respectively Hutchinson at Hazleton, Daniel Connelly at Seranton, and James Mc. Kinney at Susquehanna, in been appointed an Inspector in the In- dian Bureau. The President also ap- to be Consul at Nagssaki, Japan, Germany, and Thomas M, Waller, New York for Europe on the 2d. —A slight fire in the tenement house 672 First avenue, suffocated by the smoke Fourteen jumping from windows, near Kankakee, Illinois, early on all frame structures. The total suspicious looking men who Kempton on suspicion of having fired the place, the section ginia, on the Ist extended into Carolina. All growing cotton, North corn farmers will be compelled to plant again, Hail fell to the depth of tweivo inches and a whirlwind prevailed along the centre of the storm, blowing down barns, fences and sheds, ted Consul General Deach to 41 wiify protect Julio KR. Santos in his rights as an American citizen, and to demand his release or speedy trial, ress Monroe, from 34 One hundred and seveily rebels who escaped from Pauama are re- cruiting and creating disorder in the village of Arraijan, persa Lhem, ~(jeneral Grant continues to im- prove rapidly, and his family are dis- posed to consider him on the road to recovery. ~The Dritish corvette, Garnet steamed Lo A new anchorage nearer the city of New York on the 34. At o'clock the American flag was hoisted at the mainmast and saluted with 21 guns, The Union Jack flew all day at zenmast, General Hancock and several officers of thel Minnesota were among the visitors. he future movements of the Garnet are uncertain, ~Chinrles BE. Fuller, Treasurer of Linewood, Hamilton county, Ohio, shot himself dead on the 4th. It was said the reason of his suicide was ill health and grief for the loss of his wife who died five months ago. ~(rovernor Pattison on the 4th nom- inated J. M. Forster, of Dauphin, to be Insurance Commissioner, ~William M. Merrick, appointed to fill the v in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia caused by Judge Wylie's tion, was sworn into office on the 4 —An attempt was made on the 4th, ~the second within ten days—to burn tue Children's Home, at Covington, Kentucky. One of the inmates awoke in time to give the alarm, and the flames ware soon extinguished. —A Bre at Hampton Seich, New Hampshire, on royed the Atlantic House, the Ocean House Sea View Cottage and The loss upon his book on the 4th, and felt strong and cheerful He dictated for nearly two hours, **bringing events up to the return of the Army of the Poto- mac to Washington.” -~President Cleveland, accompanied by Vice President Hendricks, Secretaries Endicott and Whitney, Postmaster Creneral Vilas and Commissioner Black on the 4h jomed in the visit of the Veterans of the Army of the Potomac Lo the battle field at Gettysburg. The Presidential party left Washington be- fore 8 o'clock in the morning and reach- ed Gettysburg at half-past eleven. —-It is reported from Taraton Mexi co, that the seven-year-old sou of a wealthy resident named Lopez, was kidnapped recently and the father was notified that the boy would be killed .if a ransom of $75,000 was not deposiced in a certamn place within two days. * By accident the note was vot delivered un- til too late to negotiate, Al the expi- ration of the seeond day the father found the horribly mutilated body of the child in his court-yard., The hoy's sister, azed 12 years, on seeing he: brother ’s corpse, fell dead. ‘I'he fathe: became a raving maniac.” ~The Legislature of Oho, on the 4th, adjourned sine die. ~-The House of Representatives at Harrisburg on the 5th, by a vote of 115 to 53, passed a ll prohibiting public sparring or boxing exhibitions —(zovernor Abbett’s time for signe ing bills passed Ly the last Legislature of New Jersey has expired. Forty bills, amoug them the High License nieasure, remain unsigned. ~Joseph Nimmo, Jr,, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, has resigned, at ihe request of the Secretary of the upon the qualification of his successor, It is said that Wiillam F., Switzler, of appointed Bureau, will be ap- also that J. from sncceaded that chief clerk of the y removed N. Whitney, who was Switzler, will be restored to flice Ci. General Grant's maprovement ) tinued better worked On ~ TT on the 5th. Lie for his book several hours script himself, Dr. Douglas, ing on his improvement last said: **It is simply wonderful.” ris ® RIEL AR The annua! election in Red Dank, New Jersey, took place on the 4th. The liquor interest was successful, electing the five Town Commissioners. bi ~The 5th of May, was observed 1n’ Mexico as a pational holiday in com- memoration of the defeat of the French —A Yincennes, Indiana, on in five post-office and several stores and dwell ty. Montana, on the 4th, destroyed a whole square of build- ings. The loss is estimated at $100 000, —The trial of Richard Short for mur- derously assaulting Captain I’helon in O'Donovan Rossa's office, some time ago, was begun on the 5th in New Phelan was put upon the wit. ness stand, The trial of Thomas Jud- sen Cluverius, charged with the mur- der of Fannie Lillie Madison, whose body was found in a reservoir on the 13th of last March, was begun on ihe 5th in Richmond, Virginia. —Ome end of the New York Central aud Hudson River Raiiroad grain ele- vator A, at the foot of West Sixty-sec- on the 6th and fell with a loud crash. The bricks demolished the roof of the poured out buried the engine and tore Fortunately no lives were lost The cause of the disaster is supposed to have been the decaying of some of the timbers of which The damage will not exceed $10,000. ~4A telegram from Norristown says that William H. Turnbull, the atten- dant at the Insane Hospital, now in Caster, a patient, has made a con- fession. He says Caster, on the 4th, dared Alexander Steele, another atten- dant, to fight, and Steele knocked him down and jumped on him. At Steele's edge of the crime. Steele is also in jail, ~The President on the 6th, appoin- number of postmasters, among them 8, Corning Judd at Chi. cago, in place of Frank W,. Palmer, suspended, It was said at the Post- office Department that Palmer was re- moved for “offensive partisanship,” The Postmaster General said that Mr, Palmer “was an active worker in the recent campaign, and one of those Re- publicaus whose continuance in office was not deemed advisable by the Ad- tuinistration, ” ~- Admiral Jouett telegraphed on the 6th, to the Navy Department that everything is quiet on the Isthmus, He says the Colon sailed from Aspin- wall for New York on the Tth, and take back one half the sfarines sent to the Isthmus some weeks since, --The mandate to enforce tha decis- fon of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Virginia Bond cases was mailed to Richmond on the 6th, . ~Returns from the Thirty-fourth I1- linois District, where an election for a Representative to the State Legislature was held on the 6th, were meagre up to a late hour, but mdicated the election of Beeper, the Democratic candidate, by a small majority. «There will be a Democratic major. fty in the forthcoming Constitutional Convention of Florida, American railroad securities are the only investments in the London market that are not suffering from the scare of a war with Russia, ~The total of the earolled volun teers in Great Britain at the presen 18 IT FAR? Is it far where our loved one go, When they leave us here below? Do they wander through distant space To their home in that wond’rous place, To that land whose radiant light Shines down from one central height. Do they leave us through weary yoars With no care for the sorrow or tears, With no heed for the bitter pain, : Crushing the heart and crazing the brain? Have they banished the old time love From the midst of their joys above ? In the sadness and in the gloom, In the silencs of the darkened room, My soul bent low to listen, and I heard The gentle message aud the loving word That bade all woe and grief to cease, And crowned this life with perfect peaca. Heaven is not far, but close at hand, And dwellers there, by God's command, Join hands in work with those below, And walk beside where'er they go, Yielding strength that they have found To needing loved ones, still earth-bound, As our spirits struggle for the height, light, A stronger purpose and a stronger will And we feel there 1s no bridge between The world below and the world unseen. ER OLS CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. A man who travels through the wval- affairs than 1n any other walk of life, uot even excepting the legal and medi- cal professions. I once came in contact with the facts of a murder case, which was the most remarkable of the kind in the criminal annals of New York. These facts were so complicated that it will be next to impossible to give them in a straight forward manner, Judge Dowling, of the Tombs, before their insist that the accused parties had only case of the kind on record, Carlos Fernando, an eccentric Span- st. , a residence, and which stood back a rod or so from the street gate, a brick walk leading from the gate to his door. This room had no connection whatever window, and street, ingress nor egress, except from the street sides of the room or annex landlord. had qgnite a taste for the quaint and displayed lavishly. One morning early in the winter of 1869, Carlos Fernando, was found mur- dered and hus trunks broken open and rifled, It was clear that there had been a severe struggle. in a dressing case was shatlered as though a man’s fist bad been dashed through it, and Lhe bloed stains showed that the broken glass had cut the hand that had been dashed through it the mirror-—-a sound and correct con- clusion. A slight snow on the showed that but one person had gone from the street to the door and returned. It was certain, therefore, that there had been but one murderer, who had forced the door with a jimmy, attacked the occupant as he was in the him repeatedly in the chest, There was no other clew. The neigh- bors who had for years been moderately familiar with the Spaniard could not describe with any degree of aecuracy any of his property, except three pieces of jewelry, which they knew he had purchased some two years previously from an Italian sailor, paying $500 or $600 for them. But these things were so conspicu- ously marked that once seen they were never forgotten. They consisted of a watch, a breast pin, and a finger ring. In the case of the watch was imbedded 8 Maltese cross, composed of alternate small diamonds, rubies and sapphires, which presented a most striking appear. ance. The breast pin was composed of the same sort of a cross, while it formed the set of the finger ring, The detectives who were put on the case immediately shadowed the pawn shops of the Bowery and Nassau and contiguous streets, on the lookout for someone to pawn the jewelry or pore tions of it. A few mornings later an examination of three prisoners took place In Judge Dowling's private office. They were charged with the murder of Carlos Fernando. “You will be astonished when you hear the separate stories,” sald Judge Dowlihg, “They are the finest acorts I ever saw, Their very demeanor seems to lend credit to the extraordin. ary falsehoods they tell,” The first prisoner examined gave the name of Wm. Whitworth, He had for years been manager in a clothing house in the Bowery, but the firm failed and be bad been without employment i | i | | | | —— ————. | SH ——— and tbe name of various persons who knew and could vouch for him. The detective who had arrested him then told his story, While shadowing a suspecled pawn shop in the Bowery he saw the prisoner enter, and he was in the act of pawning Fernando’s watch when he was arrested, Fernando’s landlord identified the there wuld bs no mistake He had frequently inspected it closely. Whitworth said In explanation that He had gone to pawn it because he he had staved off for nearly a month He was ordered to stand aside and He gave his name as Henry Larn- The officer who had arrested Larri- gaslight, The identified. | cency, insisted that it could not have been taken from the dead man i it at a bargain from a stranger, who was either an Italian or a Portugese, he was not certain which, The prisoner slood aside and ig third up, and had his name recorded as Thos, Lapham, a car- second | via 11: ti called was and a builder of Harlem, who He was prepared to re to any number of ¥ itp penier took contracts Way. f acquaintances, ¥ $44 wir statdd that his ution was diregted to Lapham account of his right baud being strips of plaster. He me several Limes in the course wilh and saw him take the (ell. from itononeof h his vest and is Jeft Coss Iing put Lngers, pletely as the other articles, had committed the murder— his lacer- which, wilh { found on Whitworth | remained | ror, taken the property him, made a perfect case, and Larrimore walth were sharers in the plunder, on He tripped, and in trying to save hLim- self from falling, thrust his : through a pane of glass, As for the ring it was his own property. He previously, from a drunken sailor, in City Hall Park for $50, knowing that some Was sailor had stolen 1t in i port. His recollection sallor was an Italian, The judge, the lawyers, officers and spectators stared in amazement at the three prisoners after they had told their improbable stories, and this amazement was only intensified when they all sol. | emnly declared that they had never met before in thelr lives and that they were the most absolute strangers to each other. bail to the general sessions, foreign ." als before,” remarked one of the detec- | tives, “Their stories are so clumsy and i “They are F Judge Dowling, Friends of the prisoners came a day or two later and identified them, but perfect actors,” said against them. They were all young men and went about town a good deal, Their friends had to admit tht there were days at a4 time when they never saw or beard of them. All §fforts to produce witnesses to show that each had bought a piece of quaint or rare jewelry from a foreign sailor were fail. ures. Lapham could produce no one to corroborate his story about the acci- dental injury to his hand, Intimations came from the District Attorney's office that one of the accused might save his neck by turning State's evidence, and one day each of the pris. oners sent to the District Attorney, ex. pressing a desire to make a clear breast of it, He sent three trusted assistants with a notary for each to take the state ments of the accused, . Whitworth deposed that all three had been companions for a year or two! that guard, while Larnimore murdered and robbed the Spaniard, As to the Injury to his band, pe firmly adhered to his original story. These remarkably contradictory con fessions oniy heightened the mystery. They were finally indicted, and coun- sellor Wm. F. Kintzing assigned to defend them, He met all three of the prisoners to- gether, and demanded why they had made such contradictory confessions. Each made the most solemn oath that his confession was false; that they were in reality the most absolute strangers to each other, and that they bad made their lying confessions for the sole pur- pose of escaping the gallows, seeing the damaging chan of evidence against them, which was sure to convict all of them, At the end of this conference Coun- sellor Kintzing declared his belief in their innocence, and secured an accur- ate description of the [talian sailor. Calling into requisition the assistance of several detectives he set them to work to get some trace of the Italian, Two days later Mr. Kintzing was agreeably surprised to learn that the Italian was keeping a sailors’ toarding- house in Baxter st, Ilis arrest on sus- A watch, breastpin, and ring, the exact counterpart of those in the District Attorney’s office, were dis- covered, Signor Fillipo, as he registered him- At first he put a bold is denial, but weakened the | | moment he was placed in a cell, He proceeded to give all the details § the murder, completely ex he three innocent victims of tantial evidence. The two set » came by the FOOD FOR THOUGHT, Imagination is the perfume of the mind In winter a fire is better t mus. Your EI 0 Love leaves more ruin in Lis path than war, To grow old to men young wo the angels, Silence is the wit of fools and one of the virtues of the wise Flowers, leaves, fruit are woven children of hight, Let us learn upon earth those thing which call us to heaven. is to become It is better to make penitents by tleness than hypocrites by severity The most unpopular mode of enchan ment nowadays 18 “a warm spell,’ In order do great th should live as though we were never die, The man who makes a good officer is 4 saccess, But the next man to take the place is a successor, The best way to worship God 18 in allaying the distress of the times and improving the condition of mankind. We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: may be so after death. Opposition is what we want, and must have, to be good for anything, Hardship isthe native soil of manhood and self-reliance, The perfection of conversation is not fo play a regular sonata, but, like the Elian harp, to await inspiration of the passing breeze, Misfortunes are moral bitters, which frequently restore the Lealthy tone of the mind, after it has beea cloyed and sickened by prosperity, Of all beings in the universe, man has 4 i fio% wi LES we 10s) i ib praise, and engaged yet he is the lea Zag It was Peel, “1 failure, the saying of Iioh never Ape either body or n v1 Ho davs in the week avd wis knew a mar in en carrying off He had | entire to Fernando, and Whit precisely as among other valuables 14 iG one set Larrimore | ad i had the others to orih, Lapham, plated, The next morning Signor Fillipo was | He had hanged | £5 $3 $hnv and vey himself with a rope made from his bed | day does | ity of Counsellor Kintzing to this not believe in the infallibil cumsiantial evidence. ———————— The Dog and Snake. cir- { Mr. Pinkey Davis went fishing the | other day down on Whitewater, Wis, | He took his gun along and also a benche | While Mr, Davis was sitting on a log, He thought § it was a coon or some other Kind of an. | He approached the edge of the slough stealthily, and when he got near across | opposite | swimming, | line i if he had | little “bench” taking a bee- He “Bench” could he have wasn’t swam The snake! the dog in its mouth, and was i i in water and tell him } it. Mr. D. ran around to the side of the slough to meet the snake and try to save his faithful “Beneh,” He got around just as the snake was crawling out of the water. Mr. Davis says when the reptile saw him he spit the dog out and reared up gel The snake stood on its tail a minute, then laud its head across one of the lower limbs of a big tree and crawled up. About the time it got fairly up in the tree Mr. Davis shot it out. The snake measured ten feet and five inches in length and seven inches through the middie. After the dangerous reptile was dispatched Mr. Davis went to ses about his dog. When he got to the place where the snake spit the canine out he found poor “Bench' just kick. ing his last, The dog died, not from poison, for blacksnakes are not poison ous, but from the tight squeezing it received while in the mouth of the snake, a Improved Engine. An improved dividing engine, of unique construction, is among the recent foreign inventions. The ar. rangement is such that any change of wheels is dispensed with, and an in. credsed ascuaracy of division secured. This is accomplished by causing the handle which gives motion to the movable part always to start from the same point, and finish, after the ue quired numba of turns and frec Shs of a turn, against an adjastdb!.*stop on a graduate disk. After this, it is turned in the reverse back to the starting point, whick is a single notch We l- doing, at first, surely leads to The best +3 WiiiT ng give your enemie gto g 4 ET. your ia. ance; to a friend your heart; to It is one thing to love truth. and seek for own sake, and quite to welcome as much of it as tallies with our impressions and pre- judices, The roots branches Ww its {4 shy i y11 acd ured the the next effect of water ix of a tree is seen and fruit: On aloft in in the 5 80 Why shouldn't street railways be made to put stoves in the cars in the Ask us something easy, Young ladies who will not INarTy No But what are they to do? ally Mrs, it, too, There exists not any man in any na- as his When I say nature | mean na- Whether young or old, think 1t neither too soon or oo late to turn the leaves of vour just life, and consider what you would do if what you have done were to be done again. Until men consent to make heaven, as it were, Lhe background of all thei: earthly vista, their views—in history and art, aud in science, and in law, and in freedom—must all be partial and It 18 no less vain to wish death than it 18 cowardly to fear it, says the adage, But, according to common ramor, those who ‘go down to the ses in ships’’ for the first time do both with. out a scruple, How wearisome the grammarian, the phrenologist, the political or religious fanatic, or indeed any possessed moral whose balance is lost by the exaggera- tion of a single topic. It is incipient sanity, says Emerson. Nature presents always a harwony which gives the rule to taste. Thus all the working is fine art: and the infinite Father, who worketh hitherto, follows in his own working the way he has given us the instinctive desire and the inspired power to pursue, Resounding preachers who go on pounding the pulpit in the fashion of a lumbering locomotive have one merit in common with the engine—if they don’t cover much ground they gener. ally disturb the sleepers, The worst things are the perversions of good things. Abused intellectual gifts make the dangerous villain: abused sensibilities make the accom plished tempter; abused affections en- gender the kevnest of il miseries, aa wosid is fovetues Ly three ngs~ wisdom, authority, appear ance. Wisdom for thoughtful authority for rough people, and appear- ance for the great mass of superficial Jeople who can look only al the out. When we deplore the absence of some le excellence in another that we @ ourselves upon his ai
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