GIBSON PFACOCK..FtIitor
VOLUME XXI.-NO. 214.
THE 'EVENING BULLETIN
PrilLtan - Rri EVERT EvRNING
(Sundays excepted).
AT THE.NEW noiLLE,ToN BUILDING,
607 :Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
119 TWO
EVENING BULLETIN ASSOCIATION.
PROPV.trrO P.B.
GIBSON PRMYMIK. .EP.NEST C. WALLACE.
F.L. FETIMIRSTON, THOS. J. WILLIAMSON.
CASPER BOUDER. JR.. FRANCIS WELLS.
The itur.rxrxr is served to subscribers in the ci ty at 111
cent. , per week. payable to tho carriers. or SS per annum.
VDU' PRESENTS—FINE, PO'C'KET WALGETS AND
Diaries, Writing Devka, Eitati(mery Rome, P(.elret
Cutlery - . Gammon and Elies4 Hoards, Bs, Gold Pens,
()Mee Ink Stands. Juvenile MAN Stereoscopes and
Views. W. G. PERRY,
fle4 7:2;1 Arch str..t.
MARRIED.
CARSON—CARROLL- -On the 24 bpi , in Baltimore, by
slot licv. Mr. illake. 'William Thome. Carron, o f B e lt,
more, to Mif.L. Emma E. Carroll, formerly of Philadelphia.
Pentoylyania.
LALD—BOoDT.—In Northwood. N. 11., Iter. 11.1t.y Rey.
Mr. Plume% mr. INdley P. Ladd, of Philadelphia, to Mi..
wody. of N , rfliwood.
SIIEARER—PINF..—On the 13th in.t., in New York, by
the Iley.Charlcs if. Pe eon, Mr. d.. 1. Shearer, of Phila
delphia. to Ming Alter Pine. of New York city. •
STAFFORD—MEN SE.—On the 12tb ink., In St. Loofa
'bY the Rev. J. Stafford, lion. P. G. Stafford, of Sedalia.
Mu., ,on of the officiating clergyman, to Alice, eldeet
-daughter of J. F. Mare. of St. Loeb..
DIED.
MERItICK,—On the 1W Inst. Wm.ll. I,lo.rriek;
Due notice will be given of the funeral.
McKENNA.--On Sunday evening. 15th Instant, John Po
son of Patrick McKenna and Ellen Dimondmged If years..
The relatives and friends of the family are invited to
attend the funeral; from Ms late rekldenee. 331 South
~ t treet, on Wednesday morning, at 8 o'elork. Solemn !Ugh
Mass at St. Jo3eph's Church. interment at St. Marv's
Cemetery.
THU Itt.OW.--On- Monday s tnontine, Ifth inst., Nettle
F.. daughter of Chas. L. and Carrie E. Thurlow. aged 3
months and 19 days. .
BURIAL CABKET.
Vial:NT For, PESIGN ()PANTED /TIMM 9,1e67„
P. G. r..kru.r.r. rximirriocrn,
P. P.. CORN ELI. O P T &NTH AIiU ow:RN sTr.T.Trip
I 'claim that my new improved and only patented
BURIAL ems Kier is far more horautifill in form
and finith than the •old uroightly and •ropulelve
xnd thst Ito construction adde to its etteugth.and du&
.bility.
We. the lawiereignod, haling bad ocera.lon to Twain our
amiliee E. S. IlAlti.Crri PATENT firlitAL CASKET,
would not in the future use any other if they could be oh.
tained.
Bhhop M. Bliniwon, fiey..l. W. Jackson,
J. 11. Schenck, M. D., C. J. Crippen.
Manqon. V. H. N., Jacob S. lhirthall.
Dev. f lD W. BrartLue. D. D.. ( Ire. W. Cram,
Orno, Wm. flicks,
J. . Clachorne, D. N. t3inn,
EYRE 4 LANDELL lIANI3 TETE FIRST QUALITY
Lyous 'cell - eta for Cloak..
ns
LyoVclvete.-iuch. for Sacks.
rvs'ltE & LANDEIsfs, FOURTII AND ARCM KEEP A
fine al , rottment of Casstrueres for Bove' Clotlaw, Cas
hmeres for Business Suits.
I NSCRI: 1 - 0 I it LIFE
-I Y THE •
A MERR 'AN LIFE INSURANCE CIIMPAN
Ottlec S. E. corner of Fourth and NN - abaut ~ t rectr.
• CAS!! ASSETS NEARLY 142.000.000.
ALL POLICIES NON.FORFEEFAIILa.
Tie American In prepared to iecue Pellelea,.of every
description affecting' Lite Insurance, and would call ei!pe.•
vial attention to the various attractive features orceentod
in its Prospectuc, which 'earl be:tutd at the Office of the
Company. and of all Its Agen t..• ALL BIUTEA I. POLICIES ISSUED PRIOR TO
lAm - ALY FIRST will participate In the dividend at
that time. -
Now is the time to insure.
ALEX. WIIILLDIN,PretMent.
j(IIIti S. WI N. Secretary. .den
SPECIAL
t°` - slirrYI NGT "' suu
At a perting rd 113 , • C6ntril
lioiringtort tionp Society, h.. 1
I,,v‘ ing narottl gentlemen we;
the 4-nrulns year :
George Storthatn..
Ltlward W. Gorga+.
Alexander 51cradtlien.
Charlea }I. I.llktiln.
(home- It. Surer,
.10f4.1.1t Lliplueatt,
L IL
George W. Vang
Gvetge i)ay.
Eli t;arriAon.
David Dickerson
Joreph F. Allen
John .
Contribution! in ...Bones , in
meat or t egutables Will be Br
the .Manoner!. Mr. DANIEL
.trcet. above Richmond, is tl.
Bic Secitty for Aulicitiug and
By order of the Manayem.
GEORGE STOCKIIAM, Provident.
tilt.. 51. /41 - kl:Ns. ticcretarY. lt•
wir OFFICE OF TUE Yt11: 01"1TIE GUY ,OF
PPILADELPIIIA, DECESEREE 131867.
SPECIAL NOTICII.—The attention of the citizens of
Philadelphia it especially ealled to the lot lo isint; section
of an Online uce declaring Public Nuisance's:
t ip. % p. To etiffer,or permit snow to remain more then Pi X
work inq Izoira after the •ftrue may cease, to fall, on any`
paved OOTWAY or GUTTER of the city. In front of or
adjoining any church, public building:lutist...atm..., ellop,
stable or tenement allay kind, or the n.djaialtaa • Ido d
thereof, or •cant and the rverw, vo• Cr , of
etch premiers it unoccupied. shall r, balk ia ti,,, ve t s.
alty hereinafter rueserib•ii for siiels out. cies:.
PENALTY--TWO DOLLARS.
lilea.ures will be had to enforce si e.:) , •
the above, and ofiicers of the t o rte , .
directed and required to p tAlig
age Sort !lir orentilonq of this Ordinane,
order of the Major.
S R. 0. (I,AEP A LIg E f tii l 'Oit. ; :ta i i i i ii'LLll.L:" '
Xr`.TflE SOCIETY 1 431: St 1 , 1•1.1'1,S1; 1. pw,),":
Being dependent ripen the yearly contribution. of the
benevolent for the means to rarrt on their ope-ation,
Gone the public that they bare no paid Collector vie.
ployed. but that one of the members will thankfully re
ceive donations. the extreme severity of the Asaren
already. with the churl supply of work, will probable
greattf inetease the demands upon the resources of the
Society, and . nece,pitate an appeal thO year for largely
inrietvoi contribution:l.
• JOS. IS. Lb:NI/W e President
111,Walnnt street,
\VA L.'IIEIIN. Vice Prc•idept,__
AVM. EVANS, Treammer, r
drl6l4trp) 613 MLirket street
E sir THE DANK OF' NORTII AMP/V.l(lu,
P.1111..tm1.i . m.A, December 11, 1f67.
The bisectors have declared a Dividenir of SIXTY
NINE CENTS DER SHARE, as of July 1 last, payable
-in demand.
Tble Dividend, due to Ft4klAders resident in this
'city, if not called for before the 20th instant, will be
applied to_payment of the amount demanded by the Re
ceiver of Taxes for State tax on assessed value of their
etock. JOHN lIOCKLEY, \
dcl2-6tl Cashier. \,
igsar“ , -- TO THE PRESIDENTS OF THE) Ytkilra
Passenger Railway Companies: You are men tad
to examine my new invention fcr cleaning the anew
from the tracks, now In operatlon on the Thirteenth and
Fifteenth streets road. You will see it cleans the tracks
thoroughlyi . find that there is 'no occasion for'donbllng,
your teams. li"ot the right of nets of said invention. apply
4 12 the Office of the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets Rail.
why Company.
jpir
. CITY 01! ALLEGHENY, PA..
TREASURKIN 01%1 , 10E, December 9,1867. •
Notice is hereby given to the Holders of the
SIX PEIrCE'NT MUNICIPAL BONDS OF THE CITY
• OF IS I.LEGLIESI Y,
That the Coupon on wild Bondi., coining duo January let,
lleill will be paid on *laid duy dime the. State tax) at the
BANK. OF Pirrsßußoii, in the City of FM61111;14,
Pa. 1). MAC:FE/MON.
1 4 010 3.21,rP§ Treasurer of the (W r y of illeglieny, I's.
Aeir CITY OP ALLEGHENY, PA.,
• 7 . l:l:Alir ItE:P.':4 filE, I)OCCIrlDer 18n7.
ALLEGHENY CI CY OUMPIRONI ISE BONDS WAN ICEI)
Pereona holdinn Compromise Bonds of the City of A Ile
filkeny Pa., are hereby notified that the Sinking Fund for
Piffi will bo invested in these bonds at the lowest rates
offered. Proposals will he received by the undersigned.
until WEDNESDAY, the let of January,
D. MAU
1•21114 •'' Treasurer of the City of Al F l Eleghen y, tilON ,
P.
S
HE ANNA
itiar.UD WALNDT MEN "
COMPANY, OFFICE
4L7Yall I 11/11 MLA Dec.14,11;67 .
The coupdhe for lute' est on the Cowmen Benda of this Company, ffailing duo on the fire of .fannary, PO. will he
paid on preHentation at tinAMhS C NACIONAL BANK,
of Philadelphia, on and alter the first proximo.
ROBERT D. DROWN,
dePl.tjali Trea:mree,
iikec THE CONSDIADATION NATIONAL .1.1A. , 1 K.
, • " • I'M LATIET.Pki A, December 14,
The annual meeting of the stnekholdem of this flank
1011 ho held at the Banking Moore, on TUF.1.21) tV, Janu
ary 19, leal, at 12.e'clock IL, and an election for Dlrectors
upon the runic day, between the homy. of 11 o'clock A. M.
and 2 o'clock P. 11/.
JOSEPII N. vulp.soL, Darhier.
goer. LAIUES' PAHL —A FOR TUE SALE OF
imolai and fancy articlee, bi aid of the Alagandi. •
IPreebyterian Churn, will be hold in tho - now churol l t
building. N. E. corner N ineteenth and Green streets, corn.
3nencing on Monday, December lath, at 5 o'clock M
and continuing during the week
• ._.„
TicktO of adwietion—otemon, 50 cents; cingle„ 25 cents.
Children, 10 cents--to be hod the door. dolg-titro
WOMEME NAT WOE. A it.P ASSOCIATION,
Second Anntial Evtibition of
wunrui A - RT,_
EXEOQTED BY WOMEN,
NOW ()PEN
At. 921 EtirN UT k.triict,
nuglatlfimialoa. f.6'Conta.
Seftßon ickets, 50 cents. ' ' 'doll - otryi "
'iItir itn REDUCTION IN PRI.CIOIi
to
tct
th fi e ttt . N „ Es BII0,9:' &c..
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NOTACES.
P TIOUSE, NO. 1!47 ALLEN
it I LAI , ZI.I 4 IIIC Dec. I:I, 1c37.
hutorn to the wtpport of the
.Id TILIS I:VEN.NG. the (tot-
Te elected Matiagere, to oelTe
Dow John Itobbizia.
'llicanaii M. Montgomery,
Htorro .1. Hamilton.
Henry 11,,aler,
Andrew Zane,
Samuel 31 31er:litchi:II,
Jacob _ -
William W. Taqr,
David .Duncan.
itobart 31. Coleman,
.)ant a S. Barnard.
Andrew Zane, Jr.. •
Hitter.
aid of the Society, or dour,
ankf ally received by any fli
B. MICKLE., Shaeliatuaxon
in duly ittiiliorkid agent of
recch Ina con tributlom.
t nr .
... 1, Li . •f •
tato Walnut street
R. A. BDIITII, Ihwentot
9PECIAL NOTICE.
ger The Lecture of the Season,
R. STO.CKETT MATHEWS,
OF BAlanfOftE,
1/1!1.tV1:1: LIS GIN: i.roTtuir.
"THE PAR-WEST
AND
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD,
Tuesday Evening, December 17, .1867,
AT HORTICULTURAL HALL.
Tlcketx, CO cOntx--nt Aohmead'e.7.l4Cheignnt otceet, and
wr hall door on evening of lecture.
No reherved meats. del6.2.trp"
UNION BAPTIST FAIR,
AT CONCERT HALL,
Will Continue Opel'. Until
FRIDAY NIGHT, • DECEMBER 20rit, 1e67
delti-413
ler COMMONWEALTH NATIONAL BANK.
Pulf.kortyn fa. December 14. 1967.
The Annual Election for 'Directors will be held at the
Ranking House on TI Ef3DAY, the 14th day of January.
1869, between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and
o'clock P. M. , 11. C. YOUNG
della.tu,th,tjal4 Cashier.
sir AN I 'ALL:BIA COLLEGE. -ANN( CHRIST
into Holiday Exercltca. Thursday, December 19
1861', at n.rA A. M.
AddrepH by .111phop Stevene. Cara leave Kennington
kkut at 10.15 A. Al. del4.4trp•
pir HOWARD HOSPITAL. NOB. 1,518 AND MO
Lombard street, 'Nape - may Department —Medb
yal treatment and medicines furniehed cmtuttonalv to the
ionr.
CONFECTIONERY.
HOLIDAY CONFECTIONS.
The largeat and most varied stock of
RARE AND NEW CONFECTIONS
OF THE
Finest Quality,
NOW READY
FOI: TILE
HOLIDAY SEASON.
Bon-Bons, 'in rich papers.
Bon-Bons, Conards.
Bon-Bons, Victorias
Crystalized Frniti. White Nougat,
Pistache Paste, Madeira Nuts,
Amaracenes, Chocolatena, Straw
berry Chocolate, St. Nicholas
Clloco,late, CrNstalline Almonds,
Double. Vanilla Almonds, Chocolate
Beans, Chocolate Toys,
Up /II 'BUSSE LIBIETY OF
CHRISTMAS CHOCOLATES.
A Brilliant Importation
BEAUTIFUL BOXES.
Together forming a display unparalleled In
HOLIDAY GIFTS.
STEPHEN F. WHITMAN,
No. 1210 Market St.
BONBONS ,DE PARIS.
NOUVEAUTES POUR ETRENNES. •
• C. PENA_S,,.
CONFECTIONER FROM PARIS,
No. 830 Walnut Street.
A splendid carietypf
. FANCY BOXES IND BONBON, NIEREN,
Of tho newest style, just received from Paris
dell-taro ^
GROCERIES, &C.
FIN
HAVANA CIGARS,
AT VERY LOW MIL
,We have Just received this week one of the
best assortment of Fine HAVANA CIGARS
(genolne) olthe mop of 1885. The best for
many years past; and at prices very mach
below what they have been for a long time.
• FOB WI BY TIM THOM), BOX on MAIL,
SIMON COLTON CLARKE,
S.. W. corner Broad and Walnut Ste.
no2.tf rp
NEW CITRON, 01010 E QUALITY, 35 CTS.
NEW CURRANTS, Choice Quality, 15 cente.
NEW RAISINS, for 24 cents to 80 cents. .
CHOICE SULTANA. RAISINS.
PURE SPICES, =ER. COOKING WINES AND
BRANDIES, at
COITSTY , EI EAST , END GROCERY,'
431 , 10-Et No. 118 SouthSECOND Stmt.
ISAAC B. EVANSI
summon= IND DUMB lON
OITA PAINTS, VARNISHES,
NaVal Stores and , Soaps
•
No. 10 North Delaware avenue, Philada.
nenOn, 8100
rpri ANKI3GIVING WEEK: --TO R 8 AND'
Dolliers.- Just received from Rochester, a superior lot
of sweet cider. Also, received from Virginia, crab cider.
Y. J. JORDAN,
eet,
214) earstr'
Holow Third and Ws P
izint nuncio:
Partieitihrs off the 'ff'rumedv—Sarest off
• One of the Murderers.
Brief men tio - u cr , as niade Niqq,,Orcitirpt tilts mur
der of a German and his Child, and the wounding
of his wife, and . another child on Sunday last,
near Binder's switch, a few miles above Venice,
Illinois, on the Chicago; .Alton' and St. Louis
railroad. One of the. supposed murderers, a
colored' Mari, named -Toseph Marshall, was ar . -
rested in this city on Tuesday, and on Wednes
day Constable Byrnes, of 'Madison county, came
over and took the prisoner in charge. The Con
stable gives the following particulars of the
murder:
The farm house is located in Madison county,
about three miles from the Carr street I ferry
landing. It belongs to a man named Hill, and is
a rude log cabin, surrounded by a small grove of
timber. It was leaseal and occupied by a Ger
man, whose name is given as Lan:dia. He was
cry poor, and with difficulty supported a wife
and two children. '
Constable Byrnes visited the widow of the
murdered man on Wednesday, and ~ from her
obtained a description of the affray...„She was
lying in bed, suffering from the injuries she re
ceived on Sunday evening. She stated that ahM,
could not describe the appearance of the person
who killed her husband. He had been suffering
for some time with an ag.gravated attack of flux,
and about half-past six &clock Sunday evening
be went outside the house. The moon
was shining brightly, and the wife saw nothing
more of her husband until be we., stretched out
on the floor of the cabin a corpse. A talJ,stoutly
built negro man came in the door of the cabin
shortly after the husband had gone out. The
wife was standing,' by the door, with her back to
wards the door, but on hearing footsteps she
turned around quickly 'and saw the stalwart ne
gro with a club in his Land: Withont saying a
word the fiend dealt her a severe blow on the
back of the head, just below the car, felling her
to the floor and rendering her unconscious. She
did not recover from this unconscious state until
after her husband had crawled into the house and
died upon the floor. The back portion of his
head was fearfully mashed. One of the murderers
struck him with some sharp instrument un
known, but there was no noise on the 'outside,
and the wife was unaware of the affray. _
In company with Mrs. Laruka at the time were
her two daughters. The eldest one, a sprightly
little girl nine years of age, when she saw her
mother so brutally assaulted, commenced to
scream. The negro grasped her by the arm and
told her to hush up, or he would strike her. Ile
then dealt the girl a blow on the head, which
knocked her senseless, but did not seriously
injure her. As soon as she partially recovered
the child crawled Under a table.
After the family had thus been prostrated the
two negroes ransacked the house for plunder.
They secured the farmer's pocketbook, which
contained about three dollars in money, but took
nothing else out of the house.
Mrs. L. states that she thought she saw Mar
shall at the door early in the evening. Himself
and the lartre mulatto visited the house on Satur
day night. sat composedly down by the stove,
and requested something to eat and lodging for'
the night. The farmer told them he had no
place for them to sleep, but would give them
rome fire and they could sleep in the woods.
Thu borrowed a'shovel, placed the coals on it
and started out. The farmer's fears and curiosity
were awakenedby the singular demeanor of the
men, and he followed them at a safe distance,
until they got about one hundred yards from the
house. They threw the fire and shovel by the
ride of an old }o", and walked away in another
direction. On SundaY - mtifning. , :they. again en
tered the house and Eat down by time stove with
out asking permission. They acted so brutishly
that the German and his wife told them they had
room only for their family, and requested them
to leave, which they did. Nothing more was
seen, of them by the family until the yillainous
assault was made.
Constable Byrnes took the neg•ra Marshall to
various houses in the neighborhood where it was
known two negroes had been prowling around.
He first 'conversed with a black woman on Mr.
Evans's plaice, who stated that Marshall came
there on Saturday night, peeling .a turnip
with a large lance. She knew it. to be a
lance, because a physician had performed a
surgical operation upon her with the same kind
of an instrument. The negro woman minutely
described Marshall's appearance and dress, even
to' the stripes of his pants and peculiarity
of his shoes. He was at the house about six
o'clock on Sunday. night. The constable also
visited other farm-houses where Marshall had
been on Saturday and Sunday. The wife of Mr.
Chris..Frieburg, keeper of a boarding-house and
beer saloon, said that Marshall visited her horise
a week ago last Tuesday, in company with a large
colored man. They walked into the dining-room
and 'demanded something to eat, but she drove
hem out because they wore insolent. They re
armed again Sunday evening and went off. in the
, iirection of Laruka's farm., .
dol3•f am wo in.6trp
Marshall, when first arrested iu this city, de
nied having been in the neighborhood of Venice,
nu] stated that he knew nothing of the ideality,
but after all thtl residents thereabouts identified
aim he confessed that ho hadheen there on Sat
,lrday and Sunday,. but crossed ,tho river before
-undown. - •-Marshall is now confined in Venice,
heavily ironed and handcuffed. It is anticipated
that he will make a confession during to-day.
The murdered man was buried on Tuesday
last, in the German grave-yard, near what is
known as the Six-mile precinct. The wife is in
very poor health, apart from, her severe injuries.
(le loss of Ilk husband leaves . her without a
,ent of means, and without a relative to help her
n the support of herself and two children, • The
heartless crime is tho most diabolleal'ono which
aaa occurred in this region for years past, and
, he two fiends, If caught, should be punished
without. mercy.
TERRIBLE CASE :OF DESTITUTION
• • IN NEWYORK.
A Illother,y Driven to, Despair, Poisons
Her Four Children and Herself.
[From To•dny's Now York - World.l .
Several months ago Mrs. Anna Boone and her
family, consisting of two boys. and two girls,
hired apartments .on the third floor of the now
tenement house, No. ; '29 Amity place, located
near the corner of 'l3leecker street. 'ho family
appeared very respectable and of,,.. \ 141 . 11;1611:11
intelligence, and seemed; in point or— re
spectahility far above the average of those
who generally seek lodgings in tenement
houses. Mrs. Boone; who was, somewhat of an
Invalid and was known to the other residents of
the house as a widow, was very distant and re
tiring in her manners, as were also her children,
rand made few acquaintances among those who
dwelt with her under the same roof. The
Children were well behaved and intelligent, and .
appeared to ho much better educated than
those • with whom they were surrounded.
Notwithstanding. the air of culture and re
finement"'
possessCd by this family they ap
peared to be very poor indeed, and it waq noticed
that they received no visitors. The gossiping
nelghborsset the new comers down as a family
suddenly reduced from wealth to poverty, and
who had been for some reason or other aban-.
doned by their relatives and friends.. This was
mere conjeetun@ . however as Mrs. Boone' made
no confidantes, tftki. paid little or no attention to
the various rumors floating about among
the rest of the_ tenants as to • her forlorn
condition and her; ; antecedents. The advent
of this Emily -was a nine days' - wonder
to her neighbors; and the gossips finding, no food
for their surmises and conjectures, let the matter
drop to seize onanother and more fertilesubject.
It was, however, noticed, that .the family gra
dually assumed a morepoverty-strlelten appear
ane'e, iiO4 the kart
and' ' 0 1 11 .10011 . .vv0 0 the subject of
al * litiKkarp 'con n ten a aces of
the mother
remark as -; they were • seen , . flitting by.;
leaVing . 'er • entering • the. h ouse . So,
matters 1066444:i.
r un tU ; yesterday ,; morning;
when . . an event occurred whibh has cre
ated an intense excitement in the neighborhood,
being'no less than an attempt by Mrs. Boone to
tem/nate-the-existence of herself and children by
OUR WHOLE COUAT'IdRY.
PHILADELPHIA, XONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1867.
CRJME.
DIVIIDEIt IN ILLINOIS.
(From ti Alitle4Ulll,olllo , Cll4t, of Ley.euxvv_l3tlb:l
poison. It appears that during Saturday night
strange and peenliar sounds were heard proceed
ing from the.apartments occupied by the Boone
family. This somewhat alarmed the tenants in
the house, as heretofore quiet had, reigned Moll
supreme. These noises continued all
night and at two o'clock yesterday, a
Mr.Boardman, who resides on one of the
lower floors of the house convinced that some
thing was wrong, determined to investigate the
matter. He went out into the street, and finding
Officer Rae, of the Fifteenth Precinct, patrolling
through Amity street, he called him and laformed
him of his suspicions. Officer Rae at once pro
ceeded to the house, and, ascending to the room
occupied by the Boone family, rapped for ad
mission. Beeciring no answer and 'finding the
door locked,the °Meer burst in the door and there
found the whole family—Mrs. Boone, with her
four children,. Daniel, aged 13; Grace, aged 12;
3larcella, aged 11, and William, aged 9—all lying
on the floor apparently writhing in the agonies
of death. As it was supposed that the family
were prostrated by coal gas, Officer Rae ob
tained the assistance of Officer Gillen and the auf
ferers were carried into the front room. Two
physi clans were immediately summoned, and,after
examining the family, decided that 'they were
suffering from the effects of some narcotic poi
son. The usual remedies were applhal, and by
advice of the physicians the whole:family were
.conveyed in mrriages- to Bt3llevue•hospnal , On
the way to the hospital, Mrs. Boone recovering'
sufficiently, Officer Gillen questioned her about
what bad occurred, when she confessed that she
bad administered laudanum to her Children, and
then swallowed a dose of the same poison her
self. , She also stated that she had given
each of her children a small quan
tity of the • laudanum, and • had
taken the largest quantity herself. On being
asked what had Induced her to commit so fear
ful a crime, she at first hesitated, and then stated
that she "belonged to a very respectable
family, but had been abandoned by all
her relatives and friends. She wa , 4 en
tirely de,titute. and not being able to sup
port herself and family, preferred that they
should all terminate their existence by polsdn
than starve, which seemed the only alternative.
On arriving at the hospital the family were
taken in charge by the house physician, who is
sparing no effort to save the lives of the un
fortunate family, and with a fair prospect of suc
cess. Last evening the children were doing well,
and . were considered out of danger, but Mrs.
Boone is still in a very critical condition although
the attending physicians have hopes of her ulti
mate recovery- Mrs. Boone is considered under
arrest, and is entered on the station-louse blot
ter as a prisoner on a charge of attempted mur
der of her children. Oar readers may imagine to
what a pitch of desperation a mother's mind
arrives from destitution and despair, ere she at
tempts to kill her , own offspring, and may well
wonder if many such cases of poverty remain
unrelieved in our midst.
The Murder in Springltield—k Boy
Beats his Stepmother to Death.
[From the Springfield Republican, Dec.13..1
A fearful tragedy, such es never before was
equaled in this - vicinity for brutality , and heart
lessness, was enacted in a tenement in the south
east part of this city on Wednesday night. An
lrish.family lived there, consisting of John and
Mary Shea, the mother and father, John,
Jr., a boy of 19; Dennis, 16, and Maggie,
10, and Kate and Patsey Connors, children of
Mary Shea by a former husband. The
couple had been married only about two years,
and therefore the children of the one were step
children of the other. About S.Bo' o'clock yester
day, John Shea and his 'son called at the house
of Dr. McLean, and asked him to go to attend a
woman, or see whether she was alive :or dead.
When the Doctor went to the house the found
Mary, the wife. lying npon_..the bed, dead. She
was covered with blood, and her body, In all
parts,was bruisedinahorrible manner, Her head
was cut on the right side for its entire length,
and the whole scalp was loosened and could be
raised: The eyes were blackened, the face
jammed and discolored, and she had every ap
pearance of having been beaten or kicked to
death. Tho Police were informed, and at once
arrested the old man Shea and his son John, al
though the crime appears, from the evidence
before the Coroner's jury and by the accusa
tion of the father. to have been committed
by the boy, It seems that the woman had
been beaten, and kicked the night, before by
John, and then placed upon the bed in which
the two smallest children also slept. The father
was out till two or three o'clock in the morning,
came home drunk, and throw himself on the
t.ame bed with the dying woman, and there lay
fur the rest -of the night. When the children
awoke. they and the father were lying upon the
dead woman, and all were in one bloody and pro
miscuous pile. .After the arrest of young Shea
and his father Oho latter being held, only as a
witne;s). a jury was summoned by ,Coroner
Trask, who viewed the premises and examined
several witnesses.
Young Shea, although only a boy in years, has
.long been known, to the police ollicers as a des
perate character, and one that would not hesi
tate at committing any crime. He has once been
at the Reform. School, frequently before the
Police Court for drunkenness, and only the past
summer served out a sentence .of three months
in the House of Correction for beating the wo
man whom ho finally killed. He has had no
regular employment for months, and has lived
at tin: house of his father, when not in jail. His
father is a drunken, dissolute marl, who gets his
living from hand to mouth, but who is not par
ticularly vicious, While , the step-mother was
comparatively peaceful and inoffensive.
EIIRQPEAN AFFAIRS
ENGLAND.
John 'Bright on the Irish Land Quoso
Mr, Bright has addressed the following letter
to Mr. IL D. Hutton, of Dublin :
"Root Nov. 11 . , 1867.—.ify The, ,Sir:—.l"
have read your 'Prussia and Ireland' with much
interest, and, as far anyon go; I agree with you,
but I think more requires to be done. Your plan
hIM help tenants to, buy farms where owners are
willing to sell, to - lend them money on easy
toms, and to take good security for the transac
tion. Owners aro not very willing to sell,
and • the 'process of ' restoration, of • creating'
nn Irish proprietary, would be very
slow. In my speech in Dublin a
yew ago I suggested another plan, not unlike
yours, but more certainly operative, and with
_3ll tat youtamight he combined._ _Lproposed
Ptirliamentary Commission, empowered to buy
lege estates, particularly of English proprietors
'offrish property, and to resell them in'existing
fatms to existing tenants, on terms something
lilt those which you propose. A sum of .1.:5,000,-
Onf thus at the, disposal of the Commission
wOuld secure, some largo estates, and the pro
eels of creating "farmers owners of farms" would
begin at • once, and would •go on rapidly.
Your plan in fifty years would do much
god; mine would do much in five years, and in
2oyears or bib wouldchange the aspect of things
inlreland. You want the change we are both in
fakir of—that is,'we want to make the Irishfar
mir attached to the soil by the do of ownership
oilier, than by that which now exists, the •nocres
sly to have a holding in land that he may live.
We want, ftuther, to beget a new. and better
nttional senthaent, to convince every Irishman
no , on the and that we do not
intend to "drive him across . the — At- .
la tie,. but to remain a contented dvvellcron
hi owu soil.' I think my scheme would do this
_ vi,uld give bopo and faith, and inspire' him
- NS' h belief-In the .fUture, and , almnlate him to
e churl and industry.; Yon will gee the difference
b Mem your' scheme and .mine—yours. is for a
. It g Umatilla for the future—mine into grapple
n once with the desperate malady which keeps
tl g country itt a state of ~eliroute di scon t o ut
a d insurreetiou. t our 064.0)4 . y:be more easily
•ured, but dur,; , j ebildrett NM only Axe,
ettrcaitit t : think, re
s confidence and. banish speedily some of the
d tpair and disloyalty which •,so extensively pre
y 11. In some of our colonies, in Canada and
w, )3tuustviek, . I believe Government leas
[...l)PuglitofElandlohl rigitte_with grent-advantago
to the people. , 'Why hot try something in
fond? Thanking you for your• excellent
pamphlet, I am very truly yours,
JOHN Br.14:11T.
FRANCE.
Speech of Jules "Vivre.
In to-day's sitting of the Legislative Body M.
Jules Favre submitted his luterpellation on the
Roman question. flu hoped that the Le.gislative
Body would express its disapproral of the expe
dition to Rome for four reasons.. The expedi
tion was contrary to the principles of right, and
compromised the interests of France; it was es
pecially 'detrimental to the ,cause it
wished to serve ; it places 'Franca
in a series of complications out of which it
was only possible te escape by committing - an
error or by provoking legitimate discontent-. M.
Jules Favre reproaehe(T the Government with
acting without consulting the Le&lative Body.
It was the duty of the Chamber to , provide for
the consequences of accomplished facts. M.Jules
Tam then entered into a long historical narra
tive of, the facts which preceded thaexpedition.
He did not admit that the French Government
was forced to consider itself bound by.the Conven
tion of the 15th September, when so many viola
tions of other treaties had been accepted without
a protest- .Ho regretted that the •Government;
which bad expres3ed to the Senate its sympathy
for Italian unity,.should not have sought an ami
cable arrangement with Italy. M. Jules Favre re.
gardeddlie proposed Conference-as a chimera. A.
Conference would necessarily be animated by the
spirit of modern ideas, and the only result would
be humiliation to the Papacy. - X Jules Favre
concluded his speech by saying that the French
Government had had the encyclical torn to, pieces
by the Council of State, but it had picked up the.
fragments to make cartridges for -its Chassepot
rides. The debate will he resumed to-morrow.
The Snow on the City Railhoontits.
I;~litnr
oj the .Er tang Braletin : I notice
with great pleasure in this morning's North Awe
rirtin's mud United States' G‘ez,ltte, an article
entitled "Shall we Return to Salting the
Streets To a great extent it embodies
my experience, of the management of
horse railroads in cities north and west of Phila
delphia, and I feel convinced that the motive of
our companies in proposing in Councils a modifi
cation of the Salt Sill (which amounts to the
same as its repeal), at a - time when they are tits-
Playing such "masterly inactivity," can be but to
compel a change of public opinion In favor of
"salt slush."
I have observed the contrivances in 'use in
otherciticsAor removing snow-from the tracks
of horse railroads, and find that by simple ap
paratus the Companies generally are enabled to
run with regularity, even though the snow may
bedeep; but to do this, good anon-ploic4 arc run
over the road during and after a fall of suaw,and
as long thereafter as it may bo necessary to keep
a clear track.'
Some companies in Philadelphia have made a
rational attempt to do this, among which I
notice the Filth and Sixth, Union, and Thirteenth
and Fifteenth, and they are , rewarded by being
ertabled to draw their cars with two horses in
stead of four. But as a mechanic, I should sug
gest using good snow plows. In front of a truck,
and a brushing., machine. similar to that on the
Fifth and Sixth Streets Railway, on the rear of
the same. Tic latter will sweep off what snow
may he left by the plow.
If the community will stand firm in their op.
position and resistance to salting, the railroad
companies who are not in earnest in their efforts
to clear the tracks will soon tire of this trilling,
and will adopt other means, to elm. the snow.
They cannot long afford to struggle along with
half their usual number of cars with four horses
each, carrying but half the passengers, while
their expenses are the same or greater than usual.
They charge one cent more fare in this city
than in. any other Northern city of one-fourth
the size of ours, which extra charge would much
more than be sufficient to employ a force of tam
to shovel the snow into carts and remove it ,%il
tirely.
lUBICAL.
ITALCAN OecitA.—This evening Mak. Strakosch's
Italian ilbera troupe will appear at the Academy of
Music In the opera of It Trotatorr. The troupe num4
hers 1111101):Z its members singers Who are well known
to the public as accomplished artists. The cast Of the
orafore includes Mad. Do La Grange, Ansa Phillips,
Signior Briguoli and Signor Pandolii. A Competent
chorus has been engaged, and an' immense ore heetra,
composed of our best musicians, will be direclell by
'Signor
- Zs Eleventh Orchestra Matinee, for
Thursday afternoon, claims the attention of the lovers
of genuine music. Haydn's Symphony in G. major,
already noticed tv, length. In our colitmns, and Men
delssohn's Concerto in "G minor, for piano and or
chestra, are two colossal work., and might well make,.
singly, the repntat len of any composer. To have two
snch productions in one concert Is a rare privilege.
Mr. H. G. Thunder, the hez:t organist, and one, of the
hest pinniSts of oar city, makes his that appearance at
these concerts. Mr. Still, Sr., plays a clarionette
solo, and there are, besidas, some lighter pieces by rho
orchestra.
M!55
TUE 'Mt:ATI:I:B.—AL the Chestnut Mile. Janaurchek
will make ber debut tuts evening iu .11e , Pir. She. Is
supported by an accomplished German company which
has been trained to the point of highest 'perfection by,'
her, and which carries the drama forward with exaet
Dees and precision. Mile. Janauschek (pronounced
Yanausebelts) is said to,be very beautiful in pinsomand ,
to posses tragic powers 'of the rarest hind: , lithe lute.
.
been warmly
,oulogived by the New York press, and
placed hardly second 4) th e great Rtstorl. At the Walnut
.13rou,gbam's Lottery of LIP is 181111 on the boards. Mr.
Edwin Adams at the Arch will appear to-night in the
drama of The Dead Heart. At the'Americau an, at
tractive programme is uttered.
BLITZ.—Sipor Blitz gives one of his inimitable per
formances at Assembly buildings to-night.
BtikTAN TAULEAUN.—This maguidcent series of
views will remain at. National Hall bet a few nights
longer. We advise finer:, one to ace it. The pletureS
are from the easels of such famous artists as tiarley
Huntingdon, Kyle, Dallas, Church, and others, anti
are bright 'with the evidences of their genius. The ex
hibition is an unusually fine one, and no evening can
not'be more pleasantly spent than in witnessing it.
II ANION liaolutras.—Theso famouu atrulaka and
acrobats are announced to appear at the Academy or
aisle during the holidays with a highly trained and
efficient company. ThQ Melons are well known Its
the most accomplished gymnasts and acrobats in the
world. Somenf their feats are absolutely netryellotkl.
They cannot fall to draW crowded houses.
I.l:Vk hill StiTEEll' OITAtS ffintsliallY
attractive programme is. eilin , d for this mvnine, at,
this POpillar place of 811111SCIFent. The capital little
burlesque of Suit is announced with singing, dancing,,
extrayaganzai‘ farce and the usual ~ aciaajo of Ethio
pian ecceutricttles.
PiIit.ADELPJJ A. Los or till
hinds are announced for to-night, at this temple of tho
iiustcy nukes. 13 11 ,1,, c ot h will appear In several of his
rm
most laughable peuallliles, and there will be plenty
:of Lend music, -bare 1110a 1 h dancing,
by the otter motaburs of this accomplished company.
FriOCR vaT ALATII 1:11S' l,t:e rI! 0.--111ni; it. Stricken
Mathews, of Baltimore, will, deliver his lecture upon
"The. Far West and 11w .1:ailio*I," lit Horn- .
A.:01.111'M on TtlecdaY "C"ing•
:,--The English Bible Society In sixty yearN has
distribided some 5:1,000,000 copicm •of the 6crip
turc. Cnious person has calculated that
at d i ° Ibrcgollig rate it will be . 1,14 n years More
every member of the lumen race will have re
ceived a Biple, mai that it will cost t'it!0,000,000.:
' Beujowiski, of Quincy, illinols, fell,
in love with aQuincess, who didn't fall in love
with him, and he ostentatiously took morphine.
But he. tools too :much and girvives:, ,flit: sport
and,dcrision of,th4tOwn. They call a pre+
set vcd Quindg..
(Obkst Tribuw. , sap thara trance
lecturer ` ; 'while ItOldint; forth to anr-addience in
the hall' at . ; Clidt3,' , laSt week, became Se frantic
in his transitory etnto that the audience left the
hall, and his friends were conipelled to restrain
hint by main force. to prevent. his doing himself
and whets injury" •
E L. vEmEnsull, "Nam
PRICE TIIREE CENTS,
- FACTO AXII WidiraMii;
—Mauer; hoe lignibago. ' • '
--Robert Thaehatan, edits the latest,` tc - ndosr
Longfellowi •
—Dogs are vaccinated In rrau-ne andEtgla n d,,
to cure distemper. , , ,-• ,
—There are 200 volunteer . officers , retained in
the army. ' •
4 ' -A horse miStoolr the saying that all 'flesh Is
grass, and ate the flesh of Mr. Rayle, le Indiana.
—The Treasury building in Wasirlngtow Is to
cost 55,000,000.
—Edmund Kirke and .fils wife have traria and
tossed vp for a choice of children,„' ;
—The "hot'' elate is the last Invention. The
heat comes frox:a a chemical arrangement . •
--Holmes's novel Is •W be doneinto French with
the title of "Ancestral Sin."
—The New York Mail , proposes protective
unions for clergymen. We gefor it.
—The suspension bridge. at Minneapolis
sways so In the wind thatib makes people sea
sick.
—A "ditch" nine miles- long fa the neighbor
hood of Sandusky, Ohio, is to be made, at a omit
of $12,090. •
—An oil well near Pleasanbille,' Pa., nearly
completed, was iodated by a medium, and is
owned by spiritualists;
—Sixteen hundred executions for State taxes
are in the hands ot. the Sheriff of Fairfield' dis
trict, S.
—The last Fourth of July vas celebrated by
our Minister to China, Burlingame, In a heathen
temple a thousand years old. , •
—General Daniel Pratt, the great American
traveler, and perpetual Independent candidate
for the Presidency, la at Butllilo.
--A duel between a ioctor and a 'druggist is
on the carpet at St. Louis. They are_sure-_to}-
agree ip their choke of weapons. •
—A !Japanese named Sau-Gee-Roo has ,bees
immured in Savannah for pounding a.tradesukati
under the influence of too tenet , San-Ga-Ree.
—Twe hundred and flfty-two general engage
ments took place during our late war. 01 these
sixteen were naval.. •
—The thieves and burglars of Indianapolis,
Ind.. are said to have foimed a mutual protective
society.
—A book of poems by Adak Isaac Menken im
announced In
London. It is to. neatly bound
in bear skin,
—Major Gordon commands a company of fifty
Highlanders in the Papal army. Forty-seven of
the men are over six feet high. > Their chaplain
is a Highland priest.
—Mr. Murphy. the- anti-Catholic lecturer in
England, is creating asensation. lie is supported
by Orangemen, and sometimes walks through
the street with a sword and pistol in bis hand.
—Dr. Williams, lecturing at Indianapolle and
elsewhere in the West,•"produces anattitennesa
with cold water, makes men deaf and blind," and
does other wonderful things.
—A woman in Richmond sent out her daugh
ter for a loaf of bread, and forty-eight hours
after the . sly lass returned with the loaf and a
husband.
--Dulany, the author of the "Nobody's Daugh
tkr" drama, has written three other plays, He
should write just ono more, and then stop for
life.
—A bov about eight years old. offered. himself
at the voila in Springfield, Massachusetts, to vote
in hie tather'e place, who was out of town. ,Thus
doth the Enfirago mania extend:
—Paul James Lindborg,Byron's yalet in Greece,
was 'a private in A. Lincoln's company dnring the
Black Hawk war, in the Into war priVates in a
MinnesOla regiment. and is now an inmate of a
soldiers' asylum in Milwaukee..
.. , •
• —Lord Brougham contrary to the. general
opinion, has found himself strong enough to
make his annual visit to Cannes. It Was noticed
thn t he tottered In going from hi 4 carriage to the
railway car at the Penrith station.
—The following advertisement appeared in the
columns of a Western newspaper: 'Lost by a
poor boy. tied up in a brown paper with a white
string, a Germaufluto man overcoat, and several
other articles of wearing apparel." . •
—Tailless cats were known iii the Ade of 'Man,
on the coast of England, two' hundred yearif ago,
• and are no curiosity at all in Great Britain.- They
have been known. in Vermont for many gears,
and are excellent mousers.
—The Austrian vagabonds, get homes, for the
winter by cut sing loudly against the Emperor in
public. The pollee, everywhere vigilant, at once
hear, and send the rascals to warm -quarters for
six months. •
• —A Southern editor states that during' the re
cent baffle:me, with the aid of a glass,. he;could
Abstinetly see animals, and serpentsvprissing
through the air , at au imaminse„ height. Ho
probably lookedthrongh a glass of whisky%
—Jolla M. Horner, of 'Ainfledtk;eOnnty•, is one
thelargest and, best;known' farmers In Cali
fornia. He has a MaChine - Whieb cuts, threshes,
cleans. and 'sacks kgraiu... We thought- Jack
Horner was, a plumher.--;E.v.
—Mr. Goldwin..smith, the English Reformer,
'well and favorably known in this country, it bs
said, has decided.to remove to the United States,
as a country where his poliilealideas will find 'a
more congenial soil than England affords,.
Frauee Is afraid it' England gobbles up , Abys
sinia she, will exert an all-powerful Influence over
Egy ,pt., But it is not yet decided whether Vic-'
toria•or Theodore is to be the gobbler. She stands
the best chance app,srentlyArakeymus interfere.
'—A lecturer who undertook to cure the un
dergraduates of -Cambridge,- in England, 'og
smoking, by giving thems lecture on itst
was surprised to find four hundred students in
a tt e ndance, each with a pipe surcharged with.
'tobacco. Ho lied.
_.".fulins,.did you attend tie meeting'Ois de
debating society?
''Yes. sir." '
“Well, what was de lust thing that Conte afore
de house?"
"Why, it was a charcoal cart." •
—Thb Chinese have two theatres. n MI last
in San Francisco, and are now building another,
the company for which is a star. ne, , now com
ing fronuthe flowery Pekoe. The costumes of
these celestial companies are described .as bet
marvellously rich costlY. The plaY . s are al
ways agora two weeks long.
—Here is a rebel yarn! A Southern lady, who
is the wife of a . pronthient and c*trome Radical,
residing in one of the Northern States, white en
gagtql-in -plucking - the gray hairs - from - herl .
baud's mustache, was asked by him:, ".What are
you doing, my dear?" "Only carrying out your
own policy, sir, externunating the whites the
benelltof the blacks," was the
.
--Among , the wounded Garilialdianslak — en pri
' soners IS a Leghorn engineer named Mayor, who,
is of the 'Lutheran religion... Conveyed to the
hog ital at Civita Vecchia, ,was there,,, in ac
cordance with what appears todbe the rule In
that establishment, required, to : - Cenfetiit to a
priest. This he declined tci do, alleging his reli
gion as tt Protestant, and.. as he persisted in his.
refusal, he was,tatien- out of the hospital and seat
to prison: , • •
--A .W alms in the I,ondon.2ocilogical, gardens
B fed daily. with six, quarts of whelkci-and.lour of
mussels mixed together: - This soft' arid' gelati
nous fi.pod-L•whielvis'pretablv his natural aliment
—suits him - "admirably. • The wairties AL.-es his
whiskers like brushes, to_ draw_,,-. :to - his.- -
mouth what *and
,pcish away
what Le 'dislikes; and probably' . wheuf at howto
he searches with them for soft molltistis ,
_ .
—The Monongahela has been..pitelting intct old'
Santa Cronin a very ruin • way, The result.. MIA
a bell( sof very 'strong punches. A.Ktelit, akawir
/
of the atliders found tbeniselves both Itigb, and
tit y, and don's wish to tkiiklenka Vrtthaexixil'thot.
sort in a burry. , Musionottelt riiiiilttiv., ./ 0 0 801
ill thCpUbilS 11;fectil of PAuta , LlTTfitifilk Ml , ' c a
get it ()Nor ttle,Vat, %Ito' De eott it. the ,
uoutcalieltut aboard - and 'So- td we tti(Liri t i.„. -
Tile A! LA question of the Santa Crust .. ," •
"Iji , re, wr• tk Bourbon among Vs?" "
were at l ouce told that it was •ct I\l'o •
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