LANCASTER DAlLi INTELLIGENCER WEDNESDAY 1VIAR0H 8 1882 EaucastcT f ntelligencec. WEDNESDAY EVE' 3, MARCH 8, 1882. Jumbo. With all bis inventive genius for hum ling Barnum never had a better adver tisement than he is new getting through the remonstrance of the Englishpublic against his removal of the elephant " Jumbo," which he and his circus part ners bought from the managers of the Londen zoological gardens. Indeed it can easily be conceived that the shrewd Yankees are at the bottom of the legal proceedings which have temporarily secured an injunction restraining the council of the Zoological society from allowing the elephant Jumbo te be re moved from the zoological garden. Such a contest in the courts will draw inter national attention te the animal and te his American purchasers, and the mere feeling they can excite among the Eng lish people against his removal hither the mere anxious the American people will be te see the brute at 50 cents a head when he is delivered en these fiheres beyond the reach of English bailiffs and tlic dangers of Atlantic voy ages. It seems that this elephant is an old resident of the Londen zoological garden, where time out of mind the children of the realm have been went te ride en his back. He is a big old brute and quite an animal curiosity in his way, se that the English remenstrantsagainst his transfer te America consist of these "who regret as almost a national mis fortune the parting with se noble and se interesting a specimen of his class, and the siiil larger number who leek upon the removal of Jumbo te America as the less of an old friend and favorite, and who cr.n think of no pecuniary consider ation whatever sufficient te weigh against their affection for the docile and faithful creature."' The newspapers are filled witli popular lamentations against his going and the zoological garden directors are as sound ly berated for selling him for i',000 as though they were cabinet ministers and had sold their country. Great readiness lias been manifested te raise, by popular subscription, the price of the elephant and buy him back, if the American showmen would release their bargain. The animal himself h said te be deeply moved by the popular wail ever his pros pective departure ; though ordinarily docile he is new dejected and unhappy : the ether animals howled their dismay when he was removed from their com pany, and the distress of a little female elephant, upon whom he has lately be stowed some special tenderness, was uk terly unspeakable, at which Jumbo's grief only became the mere intense, albeit his bearing throughout the trial was icsthctic and dignified. "We fear that neither the tears of man or beast will prevail with the speculative ! Mr. Barnum. lie is a relentless man, and if the English courts venture te re strain him the result will be te stir up a whole zoological garden. If Mr. 131aine were our premier new and Beacenslicld i the English prime minister, delicate and ! dangerous diplomatic complications I might arise out of the transfer of .Tumbo from one side of the sea te the ether. But the gentle Frelinghuysen and Glad stone, perturbed with home troubles, will never let it come te that. Barnum will be allowed te keep this elephant en his hands. Our Agricultural Society. The efforts of the fewpractical farmers and horticulturists who keep up the county society in this community de serve far mere credit and appreciation than they receive. They are intelligent and public-spirited men, with an honest pride in their calling and an earnest and unselfish desire te promote it and increase the profits of all who fellow it. Instead of the baker's dozen, which is about the average number who attend these meet ings, there should be at least a hundred of our farmers and fruit-growers willing t devote one day in each month te this society, its useful aims and its practical ways of reaching them. It is remark able that" in this rich and populous county, with a far greater agricul tural product than any ether single district in the country, the effort te maintain such an organization should meet with such little encouragement and its success depend upon se few mem bers. Surely our farmers would find it? in the long run, profitable as well as pleasant te attend these meetings, te bring with them their experience and te carry away with them the lessens of the discussions. Mr. Cooper's essay en " Apples," which we have printed in the report of the proceedings of Monday, is well worth the consideration of our tanners, and the subject of inside fences, i ivatcd by Mr. Hoever, properly weighed i. ! owners, might lead them ie con cen c out of which they would realize in ; year far mere than the amount they can make by giving their attention te something else than the agricultural so ciety en the first Meaday of every month It is fceldem the local chronicler is called upon te publish a mere pitiful story than that of the murder of James Shaw's wife by her husband in the presence of their little children. The man's bloody deed seems te be without a mitigating circumstance. It has shocked a community in which both the wife-killer and his victim were widely known, and it adds another te the tee frequent tragedies which have stained the local record within the past year. Unfortunately for justice the slayer has found refuge where'it is hard for pur suit te fellow lu'm', and the sympathy of the neighbors for his stricken family was naturally mere promptly excited than their desire for retribution te the destroyer of his home. Shaw is likely te try and reach the sea board cities with a view of taking pas sage for the old country. The proper authorities should promptly offer a re ward for him and have a full description of him widely published. COMMEMOTIATIOX Of tllC Virtues of Andrew Jacksen is said te be one point upon which the Xew Yerk Democratic factions can unite; Better that than nothing. Let them unite. This is exciting news we have from England that, a tunnel having-been con structed under the channel, the French took advantage of the chance te march an army through it and capture Dever. We are reassured by the observation that all this " will have been done" in the mind of somebody who is imitating theuther of the " Battle j)l Dorking." His literary performance is net se in genious as that of the penny-a-liner, who lately told hew a Chilian war vessel had bombarded and ruined New Yerk city, and the Seuth American govern ment had made ours sue for peace. Fer some reason, ether than alack of merit, this clever brochure has net attracted much attention. We continue te hear rumors.fromllar rumers.fromllar rumors.fremllar burg of an extra session. It is said that it will net be called until after the Reg ular and Independent Republican con ventions have met. . Xe occasion will have arrived then that does net exists new, and a call at such a time would only excite mere public indignation than a call new. Xe subterfuge can be iu iuvented that will deceive the people. Gov. Ileyt is net quite a feel ; he could net se surely invite destruction of his party iirthis state by any ether device than an " extra session.'' The Schuylkill water is se cloudy that it in calculated the Philadelphians drink fifty tens of mud daily. Tun Pittsburgh Pat leeks as bright as a dollar in a brand new suit of handsome type. The tin cc great ports ofthe world aie Londen, Liverpool aud New Yerk. Dur ing 1880 they reached their highest trade figuies, tlie imports being at Londen about 700,000,000, Liverpool $000,000,000 and New Yerk 6539,000. The taiiif commission bill leceived au unexpected set back in the Heuse yester day, and, instead of being taken up for consideration, it was driven back te its place en the calendar te await the time when it may be l cached in regular order. A i.kxtleman who has l'ei many years been a missionary in Utah, with head, quaiters at Salt Lske City, ought te speak intelligently of Meriunnism, in its icligietis .social and political aspects. As the sub jeet is one of popular interest just new a great many of our citizens will no doubt lake occasion te hear what Rev. McMillan has te tell tbem en this subject in the Picsbyteiian church te-morrow evening. Tiieiie ii a beautiful sympathy between these two. choice bits which fellow each ether in regular succession in a column of ai esteemed contemporary, where nioral nieral ty aud business aic delightfully blended : " A lie always marries early, aud al ways has a large family.'' " Rub It Ix.- Jacob Lncckman, 274 Clinten sticet, Buffalo, M. Y., says he has been using Themas' eclectrie oil for rheu matism. He had such a lame back that he could de nothing ; but one bottle en tirely cuicd him." The Noriistewii JlcruUV young man who docs up the dramatic business for that paper evidently speaks from personal ( kaewlcgc when after mentioning the receut i production of a comedy called '"Kissing in j tbe Daik" he adds that the same play is I performed in his town every Sunday night. It has had a longer run than any ether piece en leceid. The plav contains only ' one act and no scenes unless the old 1 folks should unexpectedly enter the room during the poi ferniar.ee. Fer parlor the ' atricals "Kissing in the Dark" is a boss ; comedy ; but a young man sometimes fiuds it mere expensive than a reason ticket te hear Patti. The Amciicau Bible society has refused its aid in fending out Dr. Judsen's Bur mese Bible among the heathen because in translates the word baplize by "iinnieric,'.' though it is acknowledged te be au accu accu nite acd i-eliel.uly version. The Independ ent scores the society for watching the in teitbts of contending sects rather than circulating correct translations. "Alas for the rarity of Christian charity," ex claims the Bosten Watchman, " when the ponderous catholicity of this gicatBil.'c society is lcstraiued and uttcily stepped in iw operations because a siugle word of Scripture is net mistranslated, but trans lated." Tiiiiek times Judge Denehue,of New l erk, has been appealed te in behalf of the gamblers, and thiee times injunctions have been obtained from him restraining the police from enforcing the gambling act against the book makers, which injunc tions wei.e net set down for argument until after the sporting events for which they were secured were ever and then nobody cared te have them argued. It leeks like using u judge te beat the law, and new the Times exposes the fact that the man en whose application Donehuo rcsti aincd the poliee from interfering with book-making en tlie late walking match, is a noted professional pick-pocket, known in the rogues' gallery as " Xe. 94." On behalf of Judjie Denehue. however, it is forcibly baid that he was bound by the law te give eight days for the argument and meantime the police commissioners or anybody else who felt unduly restrain ed, could have moved for a dissolution of the injunction. Likely nobody was enough interested te resort te law te step the book-makers from their profitable and demoralizing business. ArTEii all tbat has been preached and written about the horrors and terrors of "sewer gas "here comes the New Yerk state beard of health with the averment that "no such gas as sewer gas exists, and theic is absolutely no proof that the diseases which attend the admission of sewer air into a dwelling arc preducei1 by gases." The argument of modern science is that the zymetic diseases popularly at tributed te the mythical sewer gas are pro duced by.microscepic organisms ofthe class called bacteria, which are developed en the walls of our brick city sewers in the com bination of heat, moisture aud darkness aud under the stimulus of the ammonia arising from decomposing scwage there present. The sewers arc made large mainly te carry off the storm water, aud as in times of rain they are nearly full of the dilute sewage which results from combina tion with the storm water, their walls then become coated with a film from which the bacteria are-afterward developed, and then the germs of tbe poisonous organisms float off into the tewer air and are carried into dwellings in that air just as dust is blown into the windows. The conclusion is that conduits for draining a city of its waste water, slops and sewage should have no connection whatever with these for carrying off the storm water, "aud that separate pipe3 of comparatively small di mensions and of glazed vitrified tile should be laid for the former purpose, thereby avoiding the great wall space ou which the bacteria new sprout out of the film of dilute sewage, and also avoiding a mode of structure which affords such facilities for the lodgment of a film aa a brick wall docs. PERSONAL. David Kine, a prominent physician of Xowpeit, Rhede Island, died yesterday. General Gbant is expected at tbe White Heuse next week as the guest of the presi dent. T. B. II. Stexheuse, a well-known cor cer cor resjiendeut of the New Yerk Herald, died yesterday in San Francisce. Judge Aenew will en Thursday address the Cumberland Valley temperance alli ance in Carlisle. Rumer has it that thore is a move te displace Dr. McCesa from the presidency of Princeton and substitute for him Dr. Jehn Hall of, Xew Yerk. Vexie Clancey.wIie appeared here with Rice's "Evangeline" company several years age, died in Flerida last Wednesday, aed twenty-two. The Senate committee en military affairs agreed yesterday te report favpr ably the nomination of Gen. Rufus Ix Ix ealls te be quartermaster general of the army. A Maine paper is autheri.ed te an an an nounde that Miss Axxie Louise Caky will be quietly married in the early au tumn, and tbat she will net thcicafier sing in public. The Princess of AVai.es very recently inaugurated a startling innovation agaiiiht the long established rules of etiquette by appearing at court in a dress made of brown wool, of British niauufactuie. The 51st birthday of Lieutenant-Genera Siieuidax wa3 celebrated in Chicago en Meuday night, at a dinner given by the Illinois cetmuaudery of the Leyal Legien of the Lniied States. Seventy covers wete spicad. Rev. Geokee Iliravr, the eldest mem ber of the Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, died yester day in Baltimore, in the 80th year of his age. lie reined from itineracy a few years age. Dr. Geekge II. Lam.sex, charged with poisoning his brother-in law, Percy Mal CDhn Jehn, a student at Blenheim Heuse school, Wimbledon, will be put ou tiial at the Old Bailey te-day. He is prosecuted by the English government, which is at great pains te convict him. Capt. Pkatt thinks that if the 03,000 Indian children could all be put into train ing schools the problem of governing the red men would be solved, for the little ones would be hostages for the geed be havior of their parents, and when the former have grown up they would be thoroughly civilized men and women. Mrs. Heward Rehu, of Reading, was yesterday buried in the dress at which she haxl lecently steed before the altar, it sweeMaccd, happy bride. The diess, which was or white .brocade, had been made at the home of her parents, and while her own fingers helped te fashion it, she had remarked in a girlish, light hearted way tbat "perhaps she would be buried in it." The fiist colored man ever admitted te holy orders in the Episcopal church in Seuth Carolina was ordained in St. Maik's church, at Charleston, en Friday last Rev. TnADDEL'S Salteks, a native Charles Charles tenian, about 31 ycais of age, studied in the Seuth Carolina university at Colum bia. He is an apt scholar, a line linguist, and has never had anything te de with politics. Dr. Jeseph Paxceast, the eminent surgeon and anatomist, who died yester day morning from congestion of the lungs, was born in Burlington, X. J., in 1803. and graduated from the medical department of tlie University of Pennsylvania in 1823. He wre"e and edited a number of standard works e:: surgery and anatomy. At the time of hi ; death he was emeritus piofcs piefcs BDr of geneial, descriptive and surgical anatomy in Jeffersen medical college. W. H. Vakderbilt and his three million-dollar house gave a grand reception te a thousand gentlemen guests yesterday. The palace was thrown open se that the guests were able fully te satisfy them selves as te the elegance and luxury with which all parts were fitted up and decor ated. The art gallery was the centre of interest, and from 4 o'clock te 7 it was thronged. Mrs. Vandcrbilt's room, with the painting of "Morning" in the ceiling, was looked at with special admiration. Secretary FnELiXGniiYSEX telegraphed te England, " The feeling of indiguatien and thankfulness for the Queen's safely is deep aud universal." A correspondent of the Sun very fitly calls attention te the clumsiness of the expression. Of course the pcople of America did net have " a .fceliugef indignation " "for the Queen's safety." Their feeliugs in the case under considciatieu would have been better ex pressed as fellows : " The feeling of indig nation at the attempt ea the Queen's life, and of thankfulness for her safety is uni versal." Itallastert "With Mud. Ba'tlnierc Sun. On Friday last the ship Sea King, of Richmond, Maiuc, arrived at Philadelphia, fifty days from Havre, . France, bringing "fifty tens of Havre mud in ballast." There could net be a better illustration than this of the effect of our policy of pro tection in turning ever te foreign bottoms the carrying tiade, which at one time made the United States, befere the intro duction of iron steamships, the mari time lival of England. Notwithstanding our anility w prociuce iron et a quality equal te any in the world, and ma chines for shaping it in any form that may may be desired, we are se handicapped by our tariff that we can neither build steam ships as cheaply as they can be bought en the Clyde, nor have we the markets te send them te that we once had. All com merce is based en the principle of exehange of commodities, and se long as our pre- iecuve uinu prevents us irem taxing the products of ether countries in exchange" for the product of our own we can never regain our old carrying trade. . TBEJSWS. CRIME AND CALAMITY. ' DEATH F A FAMOUS FAT BOY. Tbe Story ut'tbe Jeannette Sufferers. Sigmund Zulvesky and August Geiber were killed by a locomotive in Savannah. James Woodbury Xerris, postmaster and storekeeper at Rice, Texas, was re cently assassinated by an unknown man while entering his 6tere. Diphtheria of a very malignant type is reported te he carrying off many children in the eastern aud westcru sections of Xeva Scethx. During last week 13 cases of smallpox and 8 deaths wcre reported in St. Leuis; 3 deaths in Allegheny City, Pa., and 10 cases near Hagerstown, Md. Isaac Lewis, Alexander Lattsha, Sani'l Clements, Themas Pairy aud Jehn Jenes were severely burned by an explosion of sulphur caused by an open lamp at Schwank's ceiliery, near Mount Carmel. The house of Jehn Tayler, at Meadow Lea, Manitoba, was destroyed by fire during a terrible storm and his wife aud three daughters were subsequently found frozen te death. Mr. Tayler's hands and feet were badly fiezcn, and a Mrs. Reid, who was visiting the family, was frozen slightly. Death or a "Fat Bey." David Navarre, the "fat boy," died at the Pittsburgh citv pest house of small pox yesterday. He contracted the disease en Monday, Feb. 27. The deceased was born en June 10, 1861, and would, there fore, have attained his majority next June. His parents are well-to-de country people, David B. and Mary M. Navarre, owning a fine farm at Rechclle, Illinois, near- Chi cago. David showed signs of abnormal fatness after attaining the age of thirteen years, aud increased in weight until he attracted the atten tion of showmen. In 1874 he was secured by the managers el Van Amburgh's circus, and successively filled engage ments with Barnum, Middleten and Ufner, of the Bowery, New Yerk ; Bradenburg, of the same museum, and, finally, was secured last summer by Mr. Harris for the latter's establishments Brighten Beach. Navarre was possessed of a cheerful, con tented disposition aud made warm friends of theso by whom he was best known. His weight was 730 pounds, his measure ment 75 inches around the chest, 97 inches around the stomach, thigh 57 inches, calf xi'J inches, arm Zi inches, neck S4 inches. Seme weeks age 3Iiss Lizzie Glendening, of Allegheny, fell violently in love with him, and David pepped the questicn. They would have been married seen, notwith standing objections of the parents en both sides. David's cefiln was six feet eight inches long, three feet wide and two feet two inches deep: Seeking te J.'scape Marriage by Milcide. Amelia Ticuken, an attractive young Geiniau woman employed in the family of Mrs. Ress at 133 Bedford avenue, Brook lyn, attempted te threw herself from a third steiy window ou Monday night. She was once deeply in love, but her brother broke off the match She has laid by some money, and has expressed much aunoyance at the calls of several admirers, because .she fancied they wanted the money mero than heiself. Several weeks age she met a man, however, who seemed te have ob tained an influence ever her. Although she said that that she did net love him, she told Mrs. Ress that it was her fate te marry - him. She began te consult the .stars, and te confer with clairvoyants. The man pressed his suit, and she was eager te have seme token that would de termine whether she was te accept him as her lever. Last week she prayed that if it was Gods wish that she sheu'a marry her lever, he should make it known by having it clear en a certain day. As it was clear en that date she said : " See I must marry him." She felt drawn into a marriage she did net want te make, aud this preyed upon her mind se that she de- tei mined te escape by committing snicide 'llieJDcmt Coming te Life. In Evansville, Ind., Gnstav Becker- meyer, a young man, was pronounced dead by his attending physician en last incMlay. lie was laid out for burial, and en the second night after the watchers no ticed a twitching of the eyes. They at once went te the physician and told him. An electric battery was applied te the corpse, but without effect. Many doctors weie called and they all concluded that it was a remarkable case, as decomposition did net set in. The man will be buried. . A young lady residing en Fifth street apparently died very suddenly a short time age and was prepared for burial. As tlie body did net cct cold het lye was ap plied, which, together with vigorous rub bing, caused her restoration te life. She described her feelings as tcrrible in the ex treme. A mysterious Murder. Mis. Harriet Bell, a respectable tail- eicss, murdered m ner home in Bosten, yesterday, was returning from an errand at a neighboring store, when a tall man followed 'her into the house, and after seme words with her drew a long knife and plunged it into her neck as she steed at the feet of the stairway. The unfortunate woman staggered into tire back parlor ivuurp sue suuk, uxpirm; en mc noer, ana died in a few memcuts. Her daughter, 13 years of age, ran down stairs iu time te see the bleed gushing from her mother's neck, and the murderer going out at the deer. He is described as a man about six feet in height, 50 years of age. with gray hair and a dark moustache, and wearing a long blue overcoat. He had apparently been drinking, though net te excess. The Floed Sufferers. The total number of persons in imme diate need of feed and shelter owing te the floods in Mississippi, Arkansas and Ten Ten ncsee is estimated at 43,000. The weather has suddenly beceme cold in the afflicted region, and it is feared many must perish from exposure. Additional dispatches from the flooded districts add nothing te the previous accounts beyond a reiteration of the tales of misery and disaster. Relief continues te be furnished as far as possi ble by the government, but much mere assistance wili be needed. A liag Commits Suicide, Sbc mouths age Mr. Jehn Bunger, a switchman en the Central railroad, died in Savannah. A line English setter which belonged te him was presented te a gentle man in this city by his widow in consider ation of his kindness and attention te the family. A few days since the gentleman shipped the deg te 8 Central railroad, te the care of a friend there. The day after his arrival the deg managed" te get loose from his kennel, walked deliberately te the railroad, and stretched himself across the track in front of an engine, and was run ever and killed, thus committing suicide from grief. Bound te Have Jumbo. Upen receiving word of the legal pro ceedings te retain Jumbo, the big elephant, iu Londen, Mr. Barnum cabled yesterday as fellows te his Londen agents : "Employ best counsel in Londen, and spare no expense. We must have Jumbo. Have expended $30,000 for engraving and colored pesters representing the biggest elephant in the world standing beside lit tle Bridgeport, the smallest elephant in the world." cattle Thieves Lynched. On Thursday Arneld Heward and Frank Yeung, charged with cattle stealing, were ledged in jail at Del Norte, Cel. Next day an attempt was made te bieak jail. On Saturday "night, 100 stockmen over powered the euards and fired upon the prisoners, killing Heward and mortally wounding Yeung. Heward had been ar rested for cattle stealing twelve times, and acquitted each time. Improved Suicide. Geerge Cooper, aged 35 years, of Taft ville, Conn., hearing an account of Ed ward Ladd's suicide by hanging at Baltic, remarked te a friend that a man must be a feel te hang himself when there was a quicker aud easier way te die. Soen afterwar 1 a boy discovered Cooper's dead body lying in a field. He had shot him self. Slipped a Belter Belt. A freight engine en the Northwestern railroad, at Chicago slipped a boiler belt at the city limit en Monday night, and the fireman and engineer were badly scalded by the escapipg steam. The engine then ran unchecked until it collided with the engine of an outlying Omaha train. Beth engines were wrecked, and three clerks in the mail car were badly bruised. Illegal Railroad Consolidation. The supreme court of Ohie, in session at Columbus, has decided that the consolida tion of the Cleveland, Columbus. Cincin nati & Indianapolis and the Cincinnati, Hamiltou & Dayton railroads and leased lines was illegal. The court holds that " the lines running fiem Teledo te Cin cinnati and from Cleveland te Cincinnati ace competing, and, under the Ohie stat utes, cannot be consolidated." l'ittsburgh Bench Shew. The fourth annual bench show of the Western Pennsylvania Poultry society opened yesterday in Pittsburgh and will continue four days. The collection of dogs is the largest and finest ever housed in that city. The first prize for English champion setters was wen by " Thunder," belonging te A. II. Moere, of Philadelphia. A first prize was also awarded te ' Cu rate," entered in Class 40, by William J. Turner, of Philadelphia. i A TERKlBLK JOURNEY- Lieut. Uanenhwers Story of the Sufferings or the Jeanuette's Survivors. Mr. W. W. Dancnhewer yesterday re ceived two letters from his son, Lieut. Jehn Dancnhewer of the Jcannette Arctic expedition The first is dated at Bulun, Nev. 9, 1881. There is added a postscript dated at Yakeutsk, Dec. 17. The trip up the river from Bulun te Yakeutsk occupied thirty-six days, and was made en sledges with dogs, reindeer aud horses. Lieut. Dancnhewer describes the journey as one full of severe hardships. There were stations at intervals en the way constructed of legs. He describes the last one of these, seventeen miles from Yakeutsk, the best one of the let, as a a small leg building with a cow shed at tached. It was composed of ene room, in which wcre about twenty people, when his party arrived. In the ccntre was the body of a herse that had been killed for feed, and brought into the room te thaw out. Durinir the night that the party Bteppcd at this hut, Jack Cele, the boat swain, while laboring under aberration of mind, get up and started out te walk te New Yerk te see his wife, The thermom eter was CO degrees below zere. It was with great difficulty that Lieut. Dancn Dancn eower induced him te return. At Yakeutsk Lieut. Dancnhewer found a man who understood French, and was taken te the governor, who treated him with great kindness and consideration, lie detailed a lieutenant with instructions te give the wants of the party special atten tion. They were quartered at a small hotel conducted en the American plan. Lieut. Dancnhewer speaks of his stay in Yakeutsk as exceedingly pleasant and com fortable under the circumstances. Oa December 24 the governor sent an officer te Lieut. Dancnhewer te ask him at what time the Christmas festivities usually began in America, and when informed that it was usual te begin ou Christmas eve, he sent his sleigh for the party te come te his residence for supper and te spend the even ing. In speaking of the terrible voyage of the party, Lieut. Dancnhewer says they had te travel 700 miles ever the ice from the ship te the mouth of the Lena. They landed iu shoal water, and were com pelled te wade two miles te laud. They were forced te travel 100 miles further be be be eoeo they reached shelter, and he says he was up five days and four nights without sleep or rest. He says that 'out" of the thirty-three comprising the officers and crew ofthe Jcaunette, only thirteen aic known te be living, aud ene is known te be dead. He closes iiis letter by wishing his father mother, family and friends a Merry Christ mas. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. flAHICV MINiSIClI ACQUITTED. A Late Postmaster Charged Willi Etuuez- zIIiik Uie Contents of a Letter. The Ledger of te day has the following account of the conclusion of a case with which our readers are familiar : Henry E. Minnieh, formerly a post master at Laudisville, Pa., was put en his trial yesterday in the United States dis trict court, en the charge of embezzling the contents of a letter. The alleged em bezzlement took place en the 5th of March, 1878. By reason of losses at the Laudisville posteffico a test letter was prepared at Lancaster by ene of the pest-office agents and put in the mail pouch, it having been directed te Henry E. Miller, living near Laudisville. Thcre had been enclosed in the letter a five dollar bill and a ten dollar bill, both of them marked for identification. The letter disappeared at the Landisville posteffico, and when the postmaster was spoken te en the sub ject, he said that he bad distributed the mail, but had net seen the letter referred t e. He was then told te exhibit the money he had about him, and he did se, but none of the money which had been put into the the letter was en his person. The United States undertook te trace one of the bills through a person te whom the defendant had paid fifty dollars in bank notes en the day the letter is said te have been received at; the Laudisville posteffice. The testi mony altogether being thought te be in sufficient, a veidict of net guilty was rendered. I'ointieg a Pistol. Yesterday afternoon a let of workmen in the employ of Mr. Shulmyer attempted te pull down a house in Faglcyville in which a woman named Kate Bryer is living. She refused tc leave the place and pointed a pistol at the head of a workman named Wm. Lawrence. He became frightened and quit weik. The woman was arrested and committed for a hearing by Alderman McConemy. It was learned that the pistol pointed was a toy ene of two barrels. Larceny of a Ceat. Jes. Hess, James Quinn and Charles Coulman, boys aged 13 te 1G years, were arrested this morning and locked up, charged, with the larceny of a coat belong ing te a gentleman whose name is with held. The coat was recovered at a pawn broker's, where the boys had sold it. They will have a hearing before Alderman Dennelly this evening'. C0LERAIF8 TRAGEDL THE FUGITIVE MURDERER SHAW. TUC UKTAILS OF U1S BLOODY IJEED. A Wire and Mether Shet Dead by Her uus- band in Presence of Her Children. The following dispatch from Quarry ville, giving further particulars of the killing of Susanna Shaw, near Bartville, by her husband was received by the weekly Lntelligexcer yesterday, just after tbe daily edition had gene te press-: Qcaukyville, March 7. James Shaw resided about one and a half miles south west of Bartville, in Colerain township. His farm of which tbe title is in his wife's name contains 23 acres, with a framo.un frame.un framo.un whitewashed house and an old stable en it. He raises seme tobacco iu the summer. He aud his wife have been quarreling ever the property, which she refused te re-een. vey te him. Between 9 and 10 o'clock this morning Shaw was taking away some of his per sonal property, with a view of leaving home. Among it was a double barreled gun, leaded, belengiug, his wife said, te their son, and she objected te his takinir 1t and followed him out te the barn. He insisted en takiug it and she tried te take it from him. The little chil dren saw their altercation, aud the thirteen-year-old girl says her father stepped back a few steps, took aim and fired at her mother. The lead took effect in the left side, just below the shoulder-blade, inflict, ing an awful wound, and the woman fell dead in a peel of bleed. The Benners heard the report and ran ever te the house of the Shaws. The ten-year-old son started en horseback te Kirkwood for Dr. Wentz. On the way his horse stumbled and fell, attracting the attention of Albert Werth, who was trav eling te Quarry ville. He inquired of the lad, who he saw was greatly excited, what was the matter ; and the boy told him "James Shaw has shot his wife." As Werth did net knew Shaw he hastened up te Marien Harrar's and they went together te the scene of the horror. Dr. Wentz seen came and ether neighbors collected. Four young men started in pursuit of the murderer. He had dropped the gun 2G yards from the spot seen after he fired at his wife. The children feared he was coming after them, but he ran in another direction. The marks of his fleeing feet wcre followed for a mile en the by-read, te Jacksen's mill ; a pair of drawers that he had thrown away were feaud ; then a hat, and further en a nearly new overcoat that had encumbered his flight. AH this time he had been running and he is supposed te have taken te the fastness of the Black Reck hills and weeds. Squire Simeon Swisher impaneled a jury consisting of Pennington Moere, James Scott, Jehn Coulter. Buckley John John Jehn eon, Charles Reiner and Henry Stafferd, and they proceeded te held an inquest. The children's testimony was taken, elicit ing the forgoing facts. Jehn Warden, of Dry Wells, Eden town ship, who is the coroner's deputy for that vicinity, questions the ri?ht of the justice te held the inquest, and the conflict of jurisdiction is net yet settled. The murdered wemau was a niece ei Jes. Robinson, a "well-known citizen of Colerain, and a daughter of the late James Robinson, deceased. She was about 50 years of age, and of sandy complexion. DKTA1LS OF TIIK TRACED. A linthercd by an Intelligencer Reporter. Last night a representative of the INTEL i.iguxcer was dispatched te the scene of the tragedy, about 20 miles from this city. He investigated all the circumstances of the case, attended the coroner's inquest, heaid the testimony j;iven before it, and gathered many interesting details concern ing the family all of which are given in the following narrative : The Shs'.r Family Troubles. James Shaw, aged about 50 was born in Ireland and has been in this country ever 30 years. His wife Susanna, aged 48, was a daughter of the late James Robinson, and member of a very respectable family iu Chester county. She is spoken of uni versally as having been a deserving and exemplary woman, a long-suffering wife and a kind and affectionate mother, who has raised a family of upright children. . She must have married Shaw seen after he came te this country and their seven children are as fellows : Jeseph, aged 28; Elizabeth, aged 24 ; Annie, aged 21 ; Wil liam, atjed 18 ; Ulysses, aged 15 ; Matilda, aged 13 ; Geerge, aged 10 and Mamie, 5 years old. Jeseph for years has been in Philadelphia, where he is a foreman in the employ of the Knickerbocker ice company. It is a geed position aud he is said te be a very line young man and has many friends. He was telegraphed for at once upon the death of his mother. Elizabeth, the old eld est daughter, is married te a man named Mahen and resides at Elim. in Little Brit ain township. All the children who are large enough work te support the family. William is a bright boy, 18 years of age. It was a very pitiable sight last evening te see that family gathered in the heuse to gether and was awful te think that their mother had se lately been killed and their father was then a fugitive en account of having murdered her. While our reporter was there the eldest daughter arrived home te take charge .of the heuse and the little children whose grief was intense. Some years age Shaw bought the place en which he resided, but being somewhat shiftless and careless in money matters, it became necessary or expedient te deed the place te his wife. Of late he has beeu anxious te get it back, but her friends have been solicitous that if she recon recen veyed it he would squander it away or en cumber it and leave her and their children penniless ; aud she has ret used te make the title ever te him. A member et the Lancaster bar, upon whom Shaw called mero than a year age, te get him te advise him in his effort te se cure a rc-conveyancc of his property from his wife, says that Shaw then represented te him that he feared his wife intended te sell the property or let it be forced te saie ou a lien against it ; that she had never had the deed recorded, which he made te her ; that tbey had formerly kept it in the garret, but he had lately gene there te leek for it aud it was gene ; he thought she had sewed it up in a chaff bag. He speke of making a new deed te his son in Philadelphia or te anybody who would buy the property from him or at sheritrs sale. His stories would net al ways tally, and he was unreliable. He went from ene lawyer te another and was very loquacious and annoying, but was never known te make threats of violence against his wife. Be this as it may, their domestic relations were anything but pleasant. ne lived at home, however, though ab bent a geed deal of his time. He was away all day en Monday and when he came home in the evening had an alterca tion with his wife. He get up about day light en Tuesday ; ate breakfast with his family ; went away for about an hour, visiting a neighbor named Beeth, whom he told that he need net be surprised if semcthipir desperate happened ene of these days. Returning home about 8:30 o'clock he came into the house and started te leave it with the gun. His wife fol lowed him out, across the let and into the read beyond the-Darn, endeavoring te get. him te bring it back, when he shot and killed her, as related chcumstantially in the evidence before the coroner's jury, given in full below. The smaller children seem te have been the sole witnesses of the dreadful tragedy. "which has made orphans of them. When the wife fell and her mnraercr tied, the boy Willhua, who was walking about a fourth of a mile from the house, had heard the report of the gun and came running home. He found his mother lying dead in the read, about twenty yards from the" gate. He sent at once for his neighbor, DucKiey guuuauu, uuu wnen became the two young men carried the dead woman into the house and laid her en the lounge. Georgie, the ten-year-old boy, mounted the horse and started te Kirkwood for Dr. Wentz. He was met en the read by Albert Werth, as above related, and he, Marien Harrar and the doctor arrived at about the same time. An investigation showed that Mrs. Shaw had died almost instantly, fall ine in ber bleed-with the single exclama tion, "Oh." As the neighbors collected word was sent te Undertaker Pickel, at the Green Tree, who came and prepared the body for interment. Squire Simeon Swisher and a jury viewed tbe body, but turned the inquest ever te Deputy Corener Jehn Warden upeu his arrival. Justice Swisher also issued a warrant te Constable Bat teras for the arrest of the murderer. THE CORONER'S INO.CEST. The Fltirul Story Related by the Children. Deputy Corener Warden summoned the following jury te inquire into the case : Marien Harrar, Simeon Swisher, Penning ton Moere, Jehn J. Coulter, T. L. Thomp son and Yiucent K. Alexander. Attended by Drs. II. E. Raub and T. H. Wentz, they viewed the body and took the testi mony. The Little lilrl's Story. Matilda Shaw, one of the little girls, aged 13, testified befere the coroner that she " saw pappie sheet mother up the read." He came te the heuse and went up stain. He threw tbe gun out of the secund story window, and then the mother told the girl te go up and see if the gun was gene. He then camo.eut and picked up the guu and ran across the field te the read. The mother followed him and as he was going ever the fence she caught held of t'ie guu ; he get it loose aud get out into the read. Just at the brake in the read, ou the hill above the house he shot her. She was standing but two feet from him when she turned around with her back te him ; he had the guu under his arm up te the trigger ; witness was standing at a lime pile about 30 yards away watching him ; saw him pull the trigger and tire ; mother fell heavily te the ground, and as she did se she caught the gun ; be drew it from her, and jump ing ever her body ran down the read. Right at the stable, about 80 yards below where the bhoetiug occurred, he stepped and threw down the gun, en which he laid down a hat (two of which he had) ; he then ran down the read. ParseU of-the Murderer. It was also shown that when William, attracted by the report of the gun, reaehed the scene he found his mother lying en the read sur rounded by the little -children. She was then dead. He sent for Buckley. Jehnsen, and they carried ber body into the house. Others who arrived promptly set out te fellow the fugitive uxericide. The imprints ofthe feet of a running man could be plainly tracked down the read past the barn aud en the way te the cover of neighboring weeds, hills and wild gorges along the Octoraro. Shaw had evi dently turned into a private read, up a small hill, ran into a weeded place and down along the creek. He was afterwards tracked for some distance by his feet marks en the ground, but they were seen lest. Where he turned into the by-read the pair of drawers were found ; farther down the read his overcoat was feuud. Ne traces of the man have since been discov ered, but be has probably either fled from the neighborhood or is hiding in the weeds and rocks with which the vicinity abounds. Seme persons think he stele a horse last night and made his way te a seaboard city te take passage for Ireland. Others ex ex peet te find him having committed suicide in the Octoraro hills and weeds. What Further the Children Kneir. The children say their mother had said she was going te rent the place and move away. "Pappie told her net te de that or the place would be empty." He bad treated her badly for several days past and at times was cress te the children. He slept at home en Monday niht, and when he went away in the morning he took some clothes with him 'and said that if she moved from the place he would fellow her and leave his mark if it was twenty years afterward. Only the two yeuuger girls saw the sheeting ; Georgia had been in bed, and when tbe final Altercation took place and their mother fell, and the father fled, all the children r.m out into the "read. They say Shaw first started te run up ever the hill aud then changed his course and came back past the barn and ran out Of sight. The Medical Examination. The physicians who made the post mortem examination found that the lead had entered the left side below tbe shoul der at the seventh rib. It made a very large hole, sufficient te admit of three or four fingers. The lead was very heavy and it passed through the left lung and landed in the arch aorta. A large number of shot were taken from the body. The mau must have been standing quite close te her when the sheeting occurred, as tbe lead remained together where it entered the body. The Weapon. The weapon used was a common double barreled shot gun. It had formerly be longed te a son of the deceased, who died a few years age. It then came into the possession of William, another son. The mother knew tbat it was his, and for that reason she tried te prevent her husband from taking it away, thiuking no doubt that he would sell it and spend the money probably for drink. The weapon had been in the house for some time and had two heavy leads in it ; when it was found in the roadside where the murderer dropped it ene lock was broken off. Tne Verdict. The coroner's juryrendercd a verdict fiat "Mrs. Susanna Shaw came te her death from a gun shot wound at the hands of ber husband, James Shaw." 1NTHK NEIGHBORHOOD. The Place Where the Harder Occnrred. The house where this terrible tragedy occurred in situated in Colerain township, along a read leading from Robinson's mill te the Neble read near the Bart township line, and stands en a hill a short distance from the read. The barn, an old rickety frame building, stands in front of the house and along the read. It is very dilapidated. There is net a house within sight of this place, and the country around is very wild. The Ooteraro creek runs about a half mile from the house, Along its banks are high hills with dense thickets and plenty of rocks and trees. It is a very gloomy, lone, some-looking place, and these weeds and thickets continue along the read north of the place and all along" the creek for miles. In these hills a man might hide for some time, and it was te them that the mur derer, who in acquainted with every nook and corner, made his way at once, and thrre he may be new hiding. The following rough diagram will in a measure explain the location of the tragedy : B F r : 1- A B C is the read from Robinson's -mill te Neble's ; D is the barn and E the hetise i v
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