Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1875 — Page 9

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A QUAKER'S CHRISTMAS-EVE. ST FANNIE R. ROBINSON, i In Harper's for January. How slow and soft the mow-dress fall Upon the vine-deserted walla As If some gracious soul. Intent Upon toe one sweet deed it meant. Hi ace In its grace such bounty lay, Hhould wrap each bare thin? on the way. Till ail things white and whiter grow Kxcept the snadows Earth moat throw. The tender gray, the peacelul white, A Quaker Rettin? make to-night; And so this moonHQloe, which 1 shade Only a little lighter laid. Into my heart-still mood has crept, w ltn such a glow as ion ri.se kepi When youth and Benjamin were mine. Ah ! swift the slowest years incline, And sunrise has no story now To move me like the night and snow. If those unquiet bells would cease riastiinsi their peals across this peace, Itaeemi the hour's rare silentness K'en worldly hearts might chide and bless, And lift the lowest heavenward To greet the birthday of the Lord. I cud not think the loudest bells Can otter what a pure voice tells; The Spirit needs no brazen tone To whisper triumph to Ills own ; Ttie blessed healing falls to them Who touch unseen the garment's hem; And hidden deeds are wafted h'gner Than chamlrgs of an angel choir. II osann a still ihe mad lips cry. While still the mad hands crucify: Bat an i. ein watch and women wtep, And theirs the Rising after sleep. How careth He for Christmas song To whom all days and son belong? Only an ebbing love has need Its high-tide Teachings thus to heed. Always the willing angels sing To worn-out workers listening; Always our Christ is in the earth. Always His love has human birth In Joy that crowns oar later mom As in Judean Christmas born. And yet I mind how every year. When my ripe birthdays draw anear, Dear Ruth, from out her gayer life. With worldly hope and wisdom rife. Comes to the quiet nest once more. Bringing the smile her father wore, And little gracious gifts, to tell fcbe keeps oy some nigh miracle The simple heart 'neatn costly lace, That needs a double grant of grace. Though all the year Kuth's teuder eyes To mine are opening of the skies. Though love unsaid be love complete, . I find the special service sweet. And so, perhaps, these louder chimes. Hmootblng the prose-told hours to rhymes, Liae some rare voice God sets to round The Jarring ones of shriller sound: These spires with gran 1 and silly art, Clioubiog to reach Ihe Central Heart; These broken lilies, and the rush Of feet where leaning angels hushMay be to clearer eyes than mine Fre'-h spellings of a taledivlte And He whose birthday knew no bliss Except a woman's troubled kiss, May still forgive the looüsh art. And hide the meaniDg In His heart.

WISE AND OTHERWISE. No fool can be silent at a feast. Solon. Imtucdest words admit of no defense. Pope. Next to faith in God ia faith in labor. Bovee. Man's life is an appendix to his heart. South. To live long, it is necessary to live slowly. Cicero. Logic works; metaphysio contemplates. Gouberl. Indolence and stupidity are first cousins. Bivarol. Literature is the thought of thinking souls. Carlysle. The greatest pleasure of life is love. Sir W. Temple. Indolence is a kind of centripetal force. Shenstone. Inconstancy falls off ere it begins. Shakespeare. The worst thing an old man can be la a lover. Otway. "Wicked la Dot much worse than indistcreet. Donne. Love can hope where reason would de spair. Lyttelton. While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone. Hume. O, how fall of briers is this working-day world. Shakespeare. .. The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. Shakespeare. I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his profession. Thackeray. The love which arises suddenly ia the most difficult to cure. De Coeur. The journey or high honor lies not in smooth ways. Sir P. Sidney. Ca pid makes it his sport to pull tha warrior's plumes. Sir P. Sidney. All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the devil. Jacob!. To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire of beauty. Steele. All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. Goethe. A single grateful thought toward heaven ia the most perfect prayer. Leasing. A certain degree of fear produces the same effect as rashness. Cardinal de Ketz. It is seldom the case that beautiful persona are otherwise of great virtue. Bacon. Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods. Wordsworth. He enjoys much who is thankful for little. A gratetul mind is a great mind. seeker. It Is sorely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good. Johnson. In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice. Montaigne. Conceit is not bo high a notion of any as to be bashful and impotent In their presence. Fuller. The age of chivalry has gone, and one of calculators and economists has succeeded. Barton. I'd rather tell thee what is to be feared than what I tear, for always I am Caesar. Shakespeare. The want of belief Is a defect which ought to be concealed where it can not be overcome. swift. A guilty conscience is like a whirlpool, drawing in all to itself which would Otherwise pass by. Fuller. It is not our criminal actions that recjalre courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and looliBh. Rousseau. Contentment Is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded ol richer elements. Bovee. Heartlessnesi and fascination, in about equal quantities, constitute the recipe for forming a court coquette. Madame Deluzy. The expectations Of life depend upon diligence, and the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Coniuclus. Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak, daggers to her, but use none; my tongue and soul in this be hypocrites. Shakespeare. .Whoever appears to have much cunning has In reality very little ; being deficient In

the essential article, which Is, to hide cunning. Henry Home. Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with danger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailor-boy. Motastaslo. To succeed In the world, It Is much more ieesary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man. Talleyrand. There is no merit where there is no trial ; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood. Aaron Hill. Death, of all estimated evils, is the only one whose presence never Incommodes anybody, and which only causes concern during its absence. Arcesilaus. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done bis be&t; but what he has said or done otherwise Khali give him no peace. Emerson. It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament the unhappy man who sinke under the sense of bis dishonor, or him who survives it. Junius. Error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error ia a scribbled one from which we must first erase. Colton . I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentaly rests. Kossuth. Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom ; and there is no surer test of integrity than a. 11 proportioned expenditure. Hannah More. How happy he whj can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know, not 'that we are anxious to possess and can not use when we know. Goethe. Energy will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a twolegged animal a man without it. Goethe. We have so exalted a notion of -the human scul that we can not bear to be despised or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem. Pascal. Eloquence Is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition, than the wholesomeness of a medicine without knowing for whom it is intended. Whately. How can a wan be intelligent, happy or usefn! without the culture and discipline of education? It is this that unlocks the prison house of his mind and releases the captive. Rev. Dr. Humphrey.

FINGER RINGS. IT 13 ARGUED THAT THET ARE OF THE LATEST ORIGIN IN JEWELRY. From all authority on the subject which can be deemed authentic, it seems probable that finger rings are of later origin than al most any other well known ornament in the line of jewelry. With the exception of the allusion totho signet given by Judahto Tamar as a pledge for the fulfillment ot his promise of his son to her in marriage, there is nothing in the Mosaic record of the Iloly Scripture that indicates their use In the early times ot Jewish history, and it is possible that this eigne!; was not a finger ring, but an engraved item, worn as our modern Seals, as at that day ornaments of the kind seem to have been worn, especially among the Egyptians, of which fact abundant evidence is found In the ancient scarabei discovered from time to time among the memorials of that people. Not even in the specifications of the priestly vestments is there any account of finger lings; though the Prophet Isaiah includes them aCQODg the articles ot toilet luxury of which the Lord, in the "great and terrible day of His wrath," would deprive the daughters of Israel for the sinfulness ot the people in departing from His statutes. In the gospel we find the happy father placing shoes upon the feet and a ring upon the hand of the returning ''prodigal ton;" while St. James, the evangelist, cautions the discipies ot Christ against being influenced in their treatment of the stranger by the "goodly apparel" and the ring upon his hand,abC7e other considerations of worth Which frequently attach to the humble dress of the lowly. Upon the figures of both men and women, as copied from the Ninevah marbles now in the British Museum, and also upon ancient Egyptian figures, we notice necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and bands for the head, all evidently of elaborate goldsmith work, and some apparently set with precious stones, but we Bee no rings on the fingers; while there is evidence to SUPPORT THE SUPPOSITION that they were not worn until their convenience for the purpose of the signet the earliest outgrowth of the glyptic art became apparent In the works of Pliny he makes special mention of the fact that in all the Homeric writings there is nothing said about finger rings; while in his minute descriptions of ornaments worn in his day, the Father of Poetry alludes partlculary to earrings, necklaces and hair cauls, as the Workmanship Oi Vulcan, the court jeweler of Olympus, i cdeed. it does not appear that gems, even In their native state, were totally Unknown to Homer amber, and possibly pearls, in the solitary instance of Juno's "triple eyed" earrings, beaten gold being the only materials which were employed by the Greeks in Homer'3 time In the composition of jewelry. . Yet with great exactactnees and evident appreciation of the artistic skill displayed in the work does the poet decant upon the beauty and elegance of the brooch of Ulysses, chased with the group Of a hound bringing to the ground a a "sorely panting fawn" giving the impression that fern this remarkable ornament there must have been much ot the action upon which excellence in works of the kind is thought to depend. It would be presumptuous to venture upon a probability, however carefully qualified, as to where the King of Ithaca obtained this beautiful brooch, which perhaps was of chafed gold only, and somewhat similar to the latter works of Benvenuto Cellini; but certain it does seem that precious stones were bat Imperfectly known to the Greeks until Intercourse wa opened with Asia through the incursions into Persia, both hostile and amicable, ot Philip ot Macedon, and subsequently through the more extended conquest of Alexander the Great Losing, indeed, boldly maintaining in bis dissertation on the famous ring of Polyerates, that the Greeks did not begin to wear signet rings at all previous to the Polynesian war, B. C. 431 years. From Asia Minor to Greeci proper alter this period, however, the transition of fashion must have been exceedingly expedition, as the signet, mounted as a finger ring, rapidly found universal fafori among the Hellenic people a people, aa we know, readily adopting all the refinements fit luxury, and giving an inapctusto civilization an! the high arts that to this day is felt throughout the world re deemed from the savage state.

LAMENT. BY WALTER SAVAGE LASDO&S. . I loved him not; and yet, now he la gone, I feel I am alone. I checked him while he spoxe; yet could he peak, Alas! I would not check. For reasons not to love him once 1 sought, And wearied all my thought To vex myself and him ; I now would give My love, could he but live Who latvly lived for me, and when he found 'Twas vain, in holy ground lie hid his face amid the shades of death! I waste for him my breath Who wasted his for me! bat mine returns. And this lorn bosom burns With stifling heat, heaving it up in sleep, And waking me to weep Tears that had melted his soft heart; for years Wept he as bitter tears ! "Merciful God r such was his latest prayer, These may she never share !rt Quieter is his breath, his breast more cold Than daisies In the mold, - Where children spell, athwart the churchyard gate, His name and life's brief date. Pray for him, gentle souls, whoe'er you be, And oh, pray too for me I

THE DEVIL'S DIARY. A Fragrmentary Story In a Melancholy Memoranda, and the Sensational Sequel. VIOLENT ATTEMPT TO RAISE MONEY. A TOMAHAWK SCHUB II THB F1UCK EOTIL, 8AN FRANCISCO A CLERK LURED INTO A ROOM WITH $3,700. The Alta Californiao of the 4th last, is authority for this thrilling narrative: There Is now In the city prison a young man named S. W. Harrington, about 25 years of age, ol good address and superior intelligence, who represents himself irom Mobile, Ala. He is : detained on a charge of assault to commit murder yesterday in a room at the Palace Hotel. From the entries in a memorandum book lound upon him it is supposed that disappointment in procuring employment and tne distress of poverty drove him into the perpetration of crime with a view to raise money, his age and appearance not tallying with the theory of his being an experienced offender. He is unknown to the police, nor is it known where be came from. Ilia diary runs back six weeks or more, and a tew extracts will serve to show the general tenor or tbe pitiful record: DEATH DESIRABLE. Under date of November 28, he pays: "Would to God that I were dead the fc I had died when an inlant in my mother' arms. There is a new ray of hope, but so dim and uncertain as to be scarcely discernible. Must I do such a thing, so as to get jtaoney to take me home to die? Necessity knows no law !" Next follows a rather incoherent entry about going to Oakland and his arrival at the Palace Hotel. That was on the 28th of November. He takes a bath, ha dinner, and is assigned to room 669, fourth floor, and speaks about meeting "tbe devil for to-morrow's work. Ia it possible I have got so low, when I have tried so hard to prevent it?" On the 29th tbe entry wa: "Slept but little all night, and leel haggard and have a pain in my head. Met this beast (pardon this slur on the beast tri be and he was 80 disagreeable I left him with but a few words. Can not raise the coin to-day, and am again floating to Hades, I suppose. When these weary bones are laid at rent will It be rest, or will the 80Ul be tortured and forever damned? uod pity me! I remember of reading, when but a mere child, tbe story of a soldier who died In the army, and his last words come back to me so distinctly: 'Jesus, Thou whose last act was to take a sinner unto Theel'" MUST HAVE MONEY OR PERISH. ( November 30 the entry ia: "The last day of November and I am penniless. To-day has been a dreary, rainy day. Fixed upon to-morrow for tbe 'sacrifice.' We know not what a day may bring forth. If I die tomorrow it will likely be by my own hand. A suicide! JVhat have I done that I deserve such punishment?" December 1: "I tried bard to get some money, but it can't be did. Would to God I was dead. If X had only enough to carry me home, that I might die die beside my mother. Ohl when will this end? I am going to either get some money to take me home, or else I perish by my own hand, and die. Yes, die, and go to 'Hades,' I suppose. But if everything was sifted I would not be to blame, I don't think." The entries December 2d are still more desponding: "I guess I have done it now, and if I don't succeed, why, I'll send a bullet through my heart and end this miserable existence. God knows I would rather have gone to work it 1 could have got it. My last hope of an honest livelihood Is gone. Home, sweet home, willl ever see you again? Wrote to mother to day, received a letter from her yesterday. I think I will take a dose and end my existence." MADNESS AND SUICIDE. An unfinished letter, dated at tbe Palace Hotel, November 30, aupposod to be Intended lor his mother, hints at better and happier days; speaks of losing everything through the dishonesty of stock gamblers; of the Impossibility of getting employment, even as a brakeman on tbe railroad; of trying to force a loan from a miser, and committing suicide through insanity in case of failure; of Oeing in San Francisco under an assumed name, and a hundred other things, showing a state of mind wandering and desperate. Following is a copy: Palace Hotel, Saw Francisco, Nov. 30, 1876. "My Dear Mother 1 have not heard from you for nearly two weeks, and to-night Is rainy and my thoughts wander back home, and I can imagine I see you all sitting around the atove chatting gaily, and occasionally speaking ef the 'wanderer' when will he be home? I can not tell, for fortune does not smile on me as it has done in days gone by. I have lost everything I have or bad through the dishonesty of Lason and some stock gamblers. Yes, I am a beggar without a dime to my name, and I half imagine I am going mad. I can not think of anything I have done In my younger days that I should merit such punishment. If you were not living I should end my life to-night, for life to me has become a living hell. If I could only get employment I would feel better; but, no, it is impossible. I have tried and tried In vain. I tried to get the position Of brakeman on some freight train, but no. not even that; and if to-morrow I should attempt to force a loan from a sort of a miser and should not succeed, and should end my own life, why, It would be because I am partially bereft of my reason. But if I should succeed I'll return the principal,

with interest, in time, and I'll see you and Addle once more. I am here UNDER AN ASSUMED KÄME (In this hotel). I could not stand to associate with persons who bad not the least spark of decency left, and although I have been somewhat wayward, I have still got a claim to respectability. I came across Robert Buchanan's latest poem. It struck me rather strange, and I cut it from the evening paper. Was I ofthat mystic birth? It must be so, for when I was a babe I came very near dying once from an overdose of laudanum, and also from a cat sacking my breath. You must at that time have asked or prayed lor me the same as the mother in tbe poem. Mother, will we meet in heaven? Pity your poor boy, for ere this reaches you he may be dead. Is it possible that in my last moments, I have no friend to kneel lovingly at my bedside. No mother to imprint a la?t farewell kiss on my dying lips. No one to forgive ere I slowly pass away; my last sigh escape among strangers. To go un

wept, unnooorea ana unKuown. Yes, I am without money and without work and can not get it. Torn from home, I'm sad and weary, Far from scenes that once were bright. Wandering 'neath the shy so dreary. Pity the homeless one to-night. Darkly dawns for me tbe morrow, Coldly now the stars look down ; Nothing left me but my sorrow, I'm beneath Misfortune's frown ; No mother's soft hand to bless me, No fund kiss at close of aay, No mother to caress me, Homeless, helpless, now I stray. A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION. The allusions to efforts to raise money are supposed to be explained by papers found upon him, being correspondence with brokers and bankers in this city. On the 1st of December he is supposed to .have addressed a note to Michael Reese, of which the following Is a copy; "Dear Sir I am in need of money. I want to negotiate a loan from you on some valuable real estate, and if you can call at the hotel this evening or after office hours, I would be happy to moet you." To this Mr. R9esj replies (according to tbe purport of an original document found,) that he regrets he is not In a position to make loans. The basis of these transact ions wbs a letter, dated First National Bank, Cheyenne, W. T., October 20, 1875, purporting to be signed by John E. Wild, cashier, as follows: "To whom it may concern: I take pleasure in recommending to the public Mr. S. W. Harrington, ot this city. Mr. H. has been extensively engaged in different branches of business here, and I have always found bim to be on honest, energetic young man of excellent morals. Any favors shown him will be duly appreciated by me." RESOLVES ON A DESPERATE CRIME Yesterday, Dec. 3, Harrington addressed a note to Hopkins fc Haley, brokers, in the Safe Deposit Building, saying: "I am unfortunately confined to the hotel under a slight attack of illness and want to nse some currency. If you will be so obliging as to send me $3,750 in United States currency, I will consider it a personal favor. Send about 500 of it in fives and tens, balance in fifties and hundreds. I will have the coin ready for you here." To this Mr. Haley, senior, responded in person about noon, and was shown to room G69, where be had an interview with Harrington. Mr. Haley stated that he bad called to arrange about the price, and had not, of course, brought tbe money with him, but could send it by a messenger. Tbe price was agreed upon and Mr. Haley departed, having fixed half-past two for the meeting. THE POLICE TAKE A HAND. Mr. Haley's suspicions vtre excited, and he at once advised with Capt. Lee, ot the detective police, who detailed Detective John Meagher to accompany Mr. Haley, and see what there was in it. The supposition was that the occupant of 669 intended to transfer bogus COin, or paper, for currency. Mr. Meagher's first step was to apply to Mr. Smith, clerk at the Palace Hotel, to ascertain if Harrington had my deposit in tbe safe. He bad none. Was he sick? No, he was about and bad been on tbe street, very unlike a sick man. The detective then procured the assistance of Special Officer Jackson, on duty at the hotel, and together they ascended by an elevator, and soon noted the situation of the room. The next step was to inform the brokers, and, pursuant to arrangement with the officer, Mr. Haley, With his clerk, a young man named L.ndlam, repaired to the hotel, with 3,750 in greenbacks, and tbe party ascended to tbe fourth floor. The broker's clerk had been instructed to enter the room and deliver the money and keep a sharp lookout, and to make an outcry if anything went wrong. Officer Jackson, being well known about tbe hotel, was stationed near the room, as his presence would not excite suspicion; the detective near him, and Mr. Haley next. COUNTING! THE MONET. The clerk entered and announced that he had the greenbacks. Mr. Harrington said, all right, he would count them. The clerk thought that unnecessary, as tbe package had been put up by Mr. Haley. "I'll count it anyway," said Harrington, and the package was put into his bands. He took a seat at the table and commenced counting, the clerk watching his movements by the reflections through a mirror. In about ten minutes Harri dc ton snatched up a hatchet, a new tomahawk fresh from the hardware Store, and attacked Ludlam. The latter had just time to ward off the force of the blow In part, but was struck on the head, Sustaining a severe cut. He hallooed "murder," and the officers burst open the door. By this time Ludlam had grappled Harrington and thrown him on the bed, where he was secured. The young man was taken to Thayer's drug store and the wound was dressed. Harrington was taken to tbe prison. A SEARCH IN HIS ROOM revealed some significant preparations for business. In the closet was a coil of eightinch twine; some thongs had been prepared, probably to tie his visitors; a bottle of chloroform to soothe them, and a zino cylinder from a telegraph battery to represent bullion. A loaded pistol and razor were found on him, and the hatchet with which he made tbe attack on Ludlam. It is imagined that Harrington thought tbat the young man was too heavy to try a struggle with, and SO calculated to disable him and then beat him into insensibility; then, it being not yet 3 o'clock, to secure his booty and leave the city by the afternoon traisk or boat before the crime was discovered. The police arrangements must be credited with preventing both a heavy larceny and probably a murder. A forged check for $3,700 was also foucd on Harrington. It is dated November 26, on the London and San Francisco Bank, and signed "W. D. Hurlbut." The word "certified," in capital letters, Is stamped across the face of th3 check, and Indorsed "M.S.Latham." Capt. Lees found in Harrington's vast types corresponding with the word "stamped'' on the check.

A CURIOUS OASE.

THE DEVELOPMENTS OF DEATH. AN AO ED TAILOR DIES 8UDDENLT HIS SON DISCOVERS THAT BIS FATHER'S HOC8E- - KEEFEB WAS HIS WIFE A KISSING WILL, Of course It is a Brooklyn case, and is thus told by the Evening Eagle of tbat city: Mr. Alfred L. Pellitt, ot Green point, went to Coroner Simms this morning and requested an Investigation into the circumstances attending tbe sudden death of bis father at No. 20 Carlton avenue. The coroner, after a patient hearing of the facts and surmises of the applicant, and In view of the circumstance that there had been no physician In attendance on the deceased, decided to hold an Inquest, and previously a post mortem. The- deceased, George A. Pellitt, was a tailor by trade and 77 years old. He was the ownerof the three story frame dwelling in which he died, and had, it Is believed, considerable funds in cash, but, like some other men of Indomitable will, he preferred to woik when It was unnecessary, and for the past few months has been in the employ of a Myrtle avenue firm. He occupied tbe top floor of the Carlton avenue house and had no companion save an elderly woman, who, the son informed tbe coroner, was bis father's housekeeper. Her name was given as Clarissa Green. The son states that about noon on Tuesday last a messenger came to his bouse in Green poiDt and notified him that his father was dead. He hastened to the borne of tbe old gentleman, and found that the intelligence was correct, and further tbat DEATH HAD COMB 8UDDEXLY, and when there was no person near to receive the last words or see the closing struggles. Two weeks previous to this the deceased bad visited his son, and beyond complaining of a slight disposition, gave no sign of the near approach of death. The relative alter viewing the remains, examined tbe apartments and furniture In expectation of finding the will and other eflects of deceased, but everything bad been removed save a deed of the house, which was found in a trunk under tbe bed upon which the dead man lay. As tbe son expected to be the possessor ol all . the property of his father, he thought the disappearance of the effects a suspicious circumstance, and so informed the coroner. An Eagle reporter went to the place Indicated, and bad a conversation with the housekeeper, so called, and during tbe same, elicited from her tbe fact, hitherto unknown to the son, that she was the wife ol the deceased. The son manifested considerable astonishment at the piece of news, inasmuch .as his father had never by word or sign, given bim any intimation ot tbe relations existing between him and his housekeeper. But that the womsn's story is perfectly true was subsequently made apparent from A GLANCE AT THE KECORDS of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, from which it appears that the twain were married on the 12th of June, 1847, by tbe then rector, the Rev. Mr. Finch. She Informed the reporter that her name was Clarissa Pellitt, and tbat if her marriage wasn't generally known it was because tbe dead man didn't let his right band know what bis leit did. As to tue cause of his sudden death, she stated that no naa Deen long annctea with asthma, and at times suffer el greatly from difficulty in breathing. Still be continued to work, eat heartily, and always took an hour's sleep in his chair after each meal. He bad often told her tbat he would live to be a hundred years old, and would then probably be sound dead In bis chair. He was very particular about these naps of his, and gave orders that he should never te disturbed. After one nap last week he remarked to her that be bad bad happy dreams and felt quite heavenly. On the night before his death she, as was the custom, gave him his cold water bath and placed wet cloths about bis chest, but after be had been in bed only an hour or so, he called her and said that he was suffocating. She wanted to remove tbe colths then, but he relused to allow it. SHE REMAINED BY HIS BEDSIDE the rest of the night, and says tbat he fell into an unusually easy sleep. At 6 o'clock .on Tuesday morning she left him and prepared some food, and when, a half hour later, she went to see bow he was, she W8S Startled to find him dead. She summoned no doctor, but called a lady living on the same floor, and they tried in vain to recall bim to life. Then tbe son was sent for and he took cbarge of tbe remains. The reporter asked Mrs. Pellitt if her husband had ever made any disposition of his property and this query elicited another bit of astonishing news for the son, the woman stated tbat there had been a will made two years ago and given into the custody of a John Stanton, -whose whereabouts are now unknown, but who at tbat time lived in Hall street. Stanton was then wealthy, but his wife was burned to death, and this terrible affliction ruined bim in body and life. Since tbat occurrence nothing has been seen or heard of Stanton, and the will has never been filed. The post mortem will be held this evening, when the son's suspicions will be set at rest. From other sources tbe reporter learned tbat the deceased was twice married and tbat the second wile is still alive, Tbe property question will probably afford business for tre courts. DUAL DESERTION. A WRKTCH WHO DK8KRTED THE WOMAN THAT AfeSISTBD HIM TO DB8KBT FROM THR BRITISH ARM f. The Brooklyn Evening Eagle of Friday tells tbe story as follows: The other day a pretty little English girl caused the arrest, through Counsellor James W. Rldgway, ot one William Biackinan, for abandonment, and Justice Walsh reserved bis decision in the matter until . Monday next. The full history of the case is romantic and full of interest. William Blackman is not William Blackman, but another man altogether. His name is Henry Bishop, and he is about thirty years of age. He was a private in the British army when be made tbe acquaintance of tbe girl who claims to be his wife. She was then about nineteen, pretty and confiding. Bishop paid his addresses to ber, but there was nothing beyond this until she became possessed ot a small sum of money, left her by a relative. When Bishop ascertained this important fact, be appears to have concocted a nice little plot in his own mind, with a view of securing the girl and his own liberty from military servitude at the same time. BISHOP PROPOSED TO THE GIRL that she should elope with him, but in order to do this it was necessary tbat be should desert from the army. As a deserter he would not be safe In the British territories, so be resolved to get out of the country. He arranged to desert and proceed at once with the girl to this country, as it would be of the first importance to get clear of British soil as speedily as possible, he Induced her to consent to have the marriage ceremony delayed until they reached the United States. She secured a passage for herself

and Bishop, paying for it out of her cwn money, and made the neodful preparations for departure. He was to remain in barracks until the latest possible moment, and then decamp. An unforeseen difficulty arose, however, just at the important mordent. It was Impossible for him to quit tbe barracks without being observed. lie had to pss a sentry whose duty required him to prevent the egress ot any one, unless properly authorized to pass. Bishop was IN A DREADFUL EXTREMITY, and did not know how to escape tbe dilemma. The hour for the departure of the vessel was close at hand, and he was, to all Intents and purposes, a prisoner, 'What could be do? He made a confidant of the sentry, and boldly oflered to pay his passage to America if be would go along with bim. The sentry, whose name was William Blackman, was not unwilling to accept literty and a free passage to the land ot freedom. He accepted the oner, and the deserter and tbe sentry went off together. Tbe girl, rather than lose her lover and subject him to capture and severe punishment, paid the sentry's passage. The two men dressed themselves as civilians and got safely on board tbe vessel and awav to the shores ot this glorious country. For some reason or other, the two men exchanged names, William Blackman,- the sentry, calling hianelf Henry Bishop and Henry Bishop assuming the name of William Blackman. On reaching here, Blackman alias BISHOP DEFERRED THE MARRIAGE CEREMONT with the girl who had purchased his freedom. They lived together and a child was born, which, it is alleged, Blackman, alias Bishop, removed to some unknown guardianship. The girl got work, and out of J 14 a month she earned gave Blackman, alias Bishop, $10 every month. At length Blacsman, alias Bishop, procured work as a coachman with Mr. Woodward, of Clinton avenue. Sxm after this his wife was taken ill, and she sent to bim tor aid. He refused it, and informed her that he would have nothing more to do with her, as be was going to get married. A kind woman took tbe deserted wife into her family and cared for bcrand on Monday next Judge Walsh will say whether or not Blackman, alias Bishop, Is bound to support her.

A DEED OF DIABOLISM. THE PARTICULARS OF THE POISOXINO OF THE FAMILY OF COL. DENNY, RECENTLY REPORTED IN THE SENTINEL. The following from the Sun are the full details of the poisoning by a bay of the family of Col. Denny, ot Tincennes: This community was elecir'.üei last Saturday night by tbe report that the whole family of Col. W. N. Denny, postmaster of this city, bad been poisoned. Very little credence was given te the report at first, but an examination revealed tbe fact that it was too true. The perpetrator of this fiendish act Is a boy who has been working in Col. Denny's family for the pat two months, and whose name is Charles Sumnell. At an interview a reporter of this paper had with Colonel Denny the, fallowing facts were elicited: The boy, Charles Sumnell, came to this place with Ay mar's circus when It returned tbe second time, during tbe fair. He went to Colonel DennyV house one morning nearly starved, and Mrs. Denny taking compassion on the young devil, took him into tier employ, little dreaming how her kindness would be rewarded. HB WAS A WELL BEHAVED BOT, and very willing to work, bo the colonel Informs us. The other day Mrs. D. made him gO tO the barber-sbop and have bis haircut, as It had grown to an unusual length. He was very unwilling to do it, hut finally consented. It seems that thistrival thing stirred ap malice in him, and he deteruiiaed on this diabolical deed. He walked into Convery's drug store last Thursday, and asked for an ounce of arsenic, saving be wanted it tor rats. Convery, knowing tbat be stayed at Denny's, gave it to bim, and marked it poifon. He went home, and during tbe next day he displaced signs of surlintbf, but the family thought nothing ot it. Saturday night the family had ojster soup for supper, of which they all partook very freely. In a very few moments arter eating the soup, the whole family, comprising tne colotel, bis wife, two little girls, a girl who stayed with them and Mrs. Hudson's little dauguter, became Very sick, accompanied with violent vomiting. The colonel thought that the oysters were spoiled, but Mrs. D. at once suspected poisjn, while the boy exnibited signs of great uneasiness, and wanted to go for the doctor. He started off without waiting tobe told, and got Dr. Smith. Dr. Smith Immediately perceived SYMPTOMS OF ARSENICAL POISON, and administered antidotes to the family. He then called Dr. Mantle in consultation, and they analized some of tbe soup and pronounced it flavored with arsenic. Joseph Roseman was dispatched to Co u very's drug store, and he said that the boy had obtained the arsenic at his store. By the time Joe bad got back to Col. Denny's the young rascal bad made good his escape. At this writiDg tbe entire family had recovered from the effects of the arsenic, except Mrs, Denny, who is lying in an extremely critical condition, and it is doubtful if she ever recovers. Thfi boy has not yet been arretted, but the Officers think tbey have definite Information as to his whereabouts. If caught, there Is no punishment too severe for the yOUQg Villain. One end of a rope tied to the limb of a tree, and the other end to his neek, with about two feet space between the ground and his feet would be too good for him. This disciple of Lucretla Borg.a is about nineteen years old, Is five feet fur inches in height, stoops slightly, has light hair and gray eyes, and when last seen, had on a light bat. blue coat and brown pants. A reward of 150 will be paid fpr his recovery, and we hope ere this, tb9 young fiend has been brought to Justice. The Augusta (Oa.) Constitutionalist, in a spirit of fine statesmanship, devotes a leading article to showing that Downing, the colored keeper of the House restaurant, should be deposed, because he is practically a republican. It says grandly : "Now, this man is a superb purveyor of food for Spions and Sam. Wards, but he is not tbe only artist in the world, and therefore can not claim tbat perfection will depart with bim. We are strongly persuaded that there are many white men bis gastronomic superiors and we hope a democrat of the Caucasian race will be selected to take bis place." Could Bentbam have done better? Col. E. W. Rector, of Hot Springs, Ark. who enjoys the reputation of being the handsomest man in the state, has recently married Miss Rosebud Alcorn, daughter of Senator Alcorn, of Mlsrissippl.