®hc Crntw ;?raocrat. • m BKLLEFONTE. PA. Asylum Atrocities Governor Rotter Giving Reasons to the Leg islative Committee for Jhsapproval of Republican Management of the Pub lic Charities of Massachusetts. BOSTON, April 3.— The evidence which Governor Butler put in before the char itable Institution Committee of Leg islature, if not broken down, will sub stantiato all the allegations made in the annual message, Hnd it adds a talo of horror that it is almost incredible. The story was told by t'harlesS. Dud ley, wtio was on the stand when the hearing anjourned Friday. The Com mittee room could not contain the crowds that sought to hear his testimo ny. Ho described the sequel of his de tecting Assistant Superintendent Marsh in robbing the dead-house. Marsh told him to keep still and said : "We have have got to have some pay for our Iron Lie, taking care of these critters." Dudley also said that he saw a light ! in the trunk room several times after the inmates bad retired. Going in qui j etly one night he saw Marsh's wife open j paupers' trunks and take clothing from i them. Mrs. Pope, the housekeeper I told him she had seen the same thing, j anil the most valuable dresses were ta j ken by Mrs. Marsh to her private room and made over for the Davis girls, her relations. The witness told of some twenty children who used to cry at night because of hunger. They were placed at the table with tho other in mates and had to look out for them selves. ne night, out of curiosity, he j went to the burying ground and saw four bodies resurrection and driven otr toward Boston, The state of the food for the inmates j of the Alms House and insane was al- | ways very poor and the quantity small. I The bread was sour nearly all tho time. A man who drove the hospital team told him he had taken up sixty eight bodies in the eight months. The man was dissatisfied then, but the next day he showed "a few hun dred," which he said Tom (Marsh) had given him. The witness was afterward appointed with his wife to the care of j the female insane. The beds were of straw, in a rotten condition, and insfTl cient clothing. Most of the women were without underclothing or shoes or stockings. They had only calico dresses. This was in duly. The cells were in a filthy condition. In a cell in the attic he found a w.iman on tho straw perfectly naked. Tho straw was bad and filthy. He wa* told that this woman had been in this cell a year. She was so violently insane she would tear her clothes. She was so near a skeleton she would not have weighed more than forty pounds. His wifo clothed her, and be had the room cleaned out. She had had only one meal a day car ried to her by an idiotic girl who said she had always taken care of the old woman. He allowed her to continue doing so, but found that she threw the food away and came back with an empty plate, telling him that the wo man had eaten all. He then carried the food, and the assistant took it into the room. In five or six weeks they had her out of the cell and down into the sitting room, so changed that her own husband did not know her. He continued : "There was another woman who told me she had been kept nine days in one of the filthy basement cells with noth ing but water, and her story was cor roborated by others. They said she was very violent and was kept there to reduce her strength so they could man age her. That woman was with us for a year and we never had occasion to use any such remedies. The insane women were employed at all kinds of work in cluding the care of patients who might he afflicted with the contageous dis eases I spoke to Marsh about it and his reply was that an insane person could not take a disease. I told him our women were so worked their food was insufficient, and his reply on at least three occasions was that they were brought there to die. Dr. Lathrop used to come to the building about once a week. < >ae night after we retired one of the thirty-seven women in one of the dormitories fell out of bed and hurt herself, I got my wife and went up. My wife said she was bleeding, and thought she wa* dead. The blood wa* gushing out of hey mouth. I sent my wife for Dr. Lathrop. She came back and aaid that Dr. I.athrop complained that he waa tired, and it would do no good for him to come. 1 went and told him that I thought she was dead from internal hemorrhage. He said he could not do any good, and told me and my wife to lay her out. ! refused unlij some one else saw her. Then he said the watchman and wife would do. I got them. We found the woman dead And we took her down stairs and laid her out in my room. Next day no one onmo to Ben nhout the body, and when I wont to [>r. Lathrop he Raid he forget nil nhout it, but I could get Rome in mntoN to help me dispoße of it." Speaking of the tientment of infnntH, Dudley said: "At night they were in charge o( an inmate. Ono night 1 said to her be didn't seem to liavo NO much trouble with the babieß, UN thoy seemed to be <|uiet all night. Khesaid she bad found j out away to keep them quiet. She took down a bottle and Nnid that when they got troublcßome alio gave them three or four ilrop of it and they were quiet all night. I asked her what it WUB, and alie aaid she didn't know. It waa ROtne. thing the day nurso used. 1 amolled it and found it to be morphine. She Raid HIIO was put there for puniHhment, and waa determined to make her work AN cany AN 8110 could. I naked if ahe knew the power of the Bluff. She aaid she knew nothing, and didn't care. 1 told her it wan liable to kill Nome of them, t'ut of the seventy-three babies that were born there aud that were brought in during the first year we were there, only one WAN alivo at the end of the year—a very peculiar'child." The (lovernor: "1 should think he waa." Witness : "After they died, I used to ee a man, 'Tim,' with a Bmall box un der his arm going from the house to the dead house. 1 think that was what they carried the dead bKbie* in. They never had any service over the dead during my term there. A man, whose expenses were paid by a benevolent lady of Boston and came there as a sort of missionary, said to me one day: 'This is a very healthy place. I have been here about three weeks, and you haven't had any deaths here?" 1 said: • Yes we have,' for I had known of more than a dozen. He said 'That is strange. 1 am an otliciai to take charge of fun eral services." I said : 'You don't seem to be in the right places. If you are really in earnest, and wish to officiate at a funeral place yourself between the house and gate almost any night, and you will have an opportunity—that is, provided they will wait for you.' " The testimony was not stricken out on cross' examination. The hearing will be con liuued. Th** Fonrtb of March How the bay A ttaineJ It.t Precedence in Oar (buntry. In very early times, when March 3 f was supposed to be the last day to which t 'ongress could extend itself in the odd year with propriety, it would oc casionally be found bard at work as the third passed into the fourth. As the fourth of March is the day for the in auguration of the executive department of the Government of the I'nited States, that dale has become the first in this nation. It was fixed upon in 17 I ** by action of the Continental Congress, which, on the 13th day of September adopted the following resolve, preceded by a preamble which set forth in order the reasons for the action of that Con gre** at that lime ; "That the first Wed nesday in -lanuary next be the day for appointing electors in the several States which before the said day shall have ratified the said constitution that the first Wednesday in February next be the day 'or the electors to assemble in their respective States and vote for a President, and that the first Wednes day in March next be the time, and the present seat of Congress (New York I the place for commencing the proceed ings under the said Constitution." The first Wednesday in March, 17*9, fell on the 4th of March, and hence the prece dence of that day in our history under the Constitution. It was not till the 30th of April, 17*9, however, that Wash ington became President, owing to va riout circumstances ; but in 1793, when he entered upon his second Presiden tial term, he was inaugurated on the 4th of March. Were I*B3 an inauguration year the ceremonies would be postpon ed to the sth of March, as the 4th of March will he Sunday, the first month of the year. Next year will be the leap year, and the 4th of March will be on Tuesday ; and the next President will begin the twenty fifth Presidential term on Wednesday, March 4, 1885. Our century of Presidents will I* com plcted on the 4th of March, 1889, and the President to complete it will be chosen in 1888 9, if we insist that the work must be done by a newly chosen President. Properly, we should say, the man who shall go out in I*B9 will be the completing chief magistrate of this Nation, as will regard the first cen tury of the Nation's constitutional life- It will be soon enough to discuss the matter almost six years hence. Poesi bly the 30th of April, 1889, the hun dredth anniversary of Washington's first inauguration as President of the United States, would be selected as the most fitting day on which to have a National oelebration of the beginning of our career as a people with a fixed government of limited powers and with (he principles of liberty admitted in every way—save where the colored race woro concerned.— Rot ton Traveller. A Hermit's Queer Home How the Rone Dweller in llueker Valley fie firs all Ape ae.he Intruder t. Professor Kernmon and his wife re cently returned from a botanizing trip in the wilds of Arizona. The professor bore letters of introduction to a curious old hermit, the only occupant of Puck er Valley, calling himself Doctor MonJ roe. That was their objective point- As they approached his cabin the noise of their feet stirred his bens to cack' ling, then the upper part of his door opened and the old hermit appeared - a little old man with a hooked nose like an eagle's, a dilapidated straw lint over his right oar, long, fine hair, streaked with gray, and piercing black eyes. lIIh clothing was half military half frontiersman. He read the letter and then opened the lower part of the door and invited his guests in. The hermit entertained his guests with sto rict of his life and meant of defense, which consisted of a certain tunnel so ingeniously constructed that it is wor thy of description. At the back of the cabin some ;*aek* are carelessly hung, which, when drawn aside, disclosed what appeared to be a cellar, but what was really the openiug of a tunnel 120 feet long, with a double elf>ow in the mi idle and a cabin at each end. The tunnel wasjust high enough for him self, and he was a short man, only about five and a half feet high. The bottom and roof were rough with cobble stones. The middle was enlarged to allow for strong defense. It was very dark, and unless one was acquainted with it, there was no use in following the hermit. For defense, in case he wa* overpowered, he had an arrangement of fuse, care fully covered over with rock and cob bles, which, when fired, would blow up everything. This Doctor Monroe was a very intelligent man, and had evi dently moved in high circles. He had j had some twenty-five different occupa j tions in his life, from playing the clari- i onet in a circus to teaching school in s \ irginia and practicing medicine. ; Hanging over the fireplace were not les than twelve hats in different stages of dilapidation, and he was never seen without one of these on He never put J it on square, but always on one side. He kept cats and chickens, and when asked why he did not keep a dog he said that several year* ago he had a partner on a mining scheme, and they had a dog which wa* considerde very faithful. "tie day the partner had re turned to the cabin to get dinner and when Doctor Monroe reached it an hour later he found his friend dead The dog had not given the alarm at the approach of the indians, but bad skulk | ed off and hid. After that he never had any faith in dogs.— .Sua I'ranruro Rural I'rext. • The Bishop and the Bobber. Do you remember in Victor Hugo's , great picture of "I.es Miserable*,'' the meeting of .lean Valjean and the bish op ? Valjean, having been sentenced to five years imprisonment for stealing a loaf of bread, is resentenced, repeat-I edly, for trying to escape, until he had remained in confinement nineteen years. At length he is released, and ; given the yellow passport that describe* him a* a discharged cnnvivt. The pa per that liberate* hirn is the stigma that denounce* him. Kvery honest man's door is closad against him, until lie knocks at the gate of the old bishop. There, to his surprise, he finds a wel come, food and shelter. But the evil spell of his old life is still upon him. He cannot sleep for the remembrance of the silver plate upon the bishop's ta ble. He rite* in the night, robs his benefactor, and flies. <>f course he is retaken and brought back. The gen ilarmes who have captured him lead liim into the bishop's presence with the convicting bundle in hi* hands. The old prelate rise* to meet the group as they enter, and before a word can be spoken, exclaims : "Ah I Valjeaß. I am glad to see yeu ! But I gave you the ciftidle stick* too, which are also of sil ver. Why did you not Uke them away with the rest?" He tells the gen darmes that they have made a mistake, and may retire ; and then going up to the cowering wretch, and putting his hand upon his shoulder, the bishop says : "Jean Valjean, my brother ! you no loager belong to evil, but to good. I withdraw your soul from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and give it to.God. Never forget that you are to employ this silver -your sil ver now—in becoming an ho neat man ' The setting of the picture may be e* aggerated and French, but the spirit of it is righteous and Christian. Ours is a gospel, not of implacability but of par don. Ourais a religeon, not of damna tion, but of hope. Let u* see to it that wa carry ita message even to these •'spirits that are in prison 1" A King Bathing His Peasant*' Feet An Annual (,'eremony in Austria- King anil (fueen Humbled flej'orr the I'onr. The lfofburg, the chief palace of the AuHtrian sovereigns, has been the scene of an ecclesia*tical ceremony or act of devotion which it a curious relic of nindiii'val cuHtome. In accordance with a imago obitervad from time immemorial on Maunday Thursday the ceremony of "waHhing the feet of the poor'' wa* thin morning performed at uaual by their Majesties at the imperial residence. In tho Middle Ages the custom prevailed at many other Catholic Courts, but in the present er*on* talked through the telephone, and one played "Home, Sweet Home" through it on a mouth organ. While the reporter was present no answer could be caught from Chica" go, hut a telegraphic dispatch which the operator read said that the New York voice* and the tune could be heard there distinctly. The operator said that yesterday he conversed for an hour with a friend in Chicago over the wire, and neither had any difficulty in hearing the other. The wire which is uaed to transmit the sounds is made of copper. A Clergyman's Vision The /Wy <\( John Pierre Iht centred Through a Remarkable Dream. Titi svit.t.t, April 3.—The body of John Pierce, who was drowned on Sun day, February 4, at the time the Frank lin Street Bridge, of this place, gave way duriog the recent disastrous floods, waa found this morning on the Watson flats, about a mile and a half below this city and just op|>osite the old Pierce homestead, in Venango oounty. The remaina of the unfortunate lad were found through a remarkable revelation. For several weeks tho family bad utter ly despaired of ever discovering the body. AH hope had been abandoned when Kev. Mr. Hoover, a Methodist clergyman, in Sunville, bad a dream a few nighu ago, in which he aaw the spot where the body was to be found, and, although he had oarer seen the plana in reality, the vision was an per fect that when ha awoke he oouid not drive the dream from bia mind. He visited the dead boy's father and described the place he had aeen io the dream. He waa confident that the re mains could be found in the spot he described, which wa* familiar to Mr. Pierce. The clergyman and the dead lad's father visited Watson flats this morning, and there, sure enough, lying several rods from the bed of Oil ' reek, the body was found, half-embedded in sand and mud at the foot of a clump of bushes, with the lower extremities pro truding. The clothes were intact, and the boy's overcoat was firmly buttoned around his throat. A watch was found in a pocket in the vest, which had stop ped at fifteen minutes of four o'clock, three hours after the accident in which the boy lost his life. The remains were taken to litusviile, from where they will f>e buried. Much excitement pre vails over Itev. Mr. Hoover's revelation. Mr. Blaine's Son-in-Law ' ajitatn ( i/jt/nngrr't Introduction to n fyddirr at ( amp Verde. When ' 'oppinger was stationed at ' amp \ erde, Arizona, as captain of one of the companies of the Twenty-third infantry, in 1872, the writer happened to be the witness of an incident that illustrates the character and disposition of the man. A band of recruits arrived one day, filled with feat and terror of the officer under whom they were to serve for the ensuing five years. Keport and rumor had pictured '.'oppinger to them a* being a pirate captain and a persecu tor of the rank and file. Coppinger, at tired in a suit of clothes that might have distinguished a teamster, w.m in I the sullter store when one of the re cruits entered. "I would like to see this Captain ('oppinger,'' said the re ciuit. "1 understand he * a hard man." 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