Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1874 — Page 2

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TI1E OLD HOME. BT WILL WALLACE HARNEY. From Scribner's for December. An ont-door quiet held the earth, lieneath i he winter mo n. The cricket chirped in cosy mirth. And the kettle croond, upon the hearth, A sweet, old-fashioned tone. The old clock ticked, a drowsy race, With tue clicklDK of the cricket. And red coal In ihm chimney-place Peeped out, wtib many a roy lace, Like derrlea In a thicket. The crane's arm empty, stuck out stiff. Ana tluware on the shelves Twinkled and winked at every glifr. In the nickering nre-llgbt. as if They whispered to themselves. The good dame, in her raffled cap, . Uoonted her stitches slowly, And the old man, wttn many a gape, Jtead from the Big Book on his lap. The good words, wLse and holy. The old clock clicked; the old man read, ills deep voice pausing, lowering, Theg'xxl wife noided drooped her head The Aids of both were heavy as lead iney were sound alt-p and snoring. h, hale old couple! gweeteach dream, While all the mtllc pans til tint Pan paints her wliisker In the cream Till Joan nd the beUred ;eatn Urins Maggie from the quilting. May Time, I pray, when falling years Make ihm my voice and lU rapple, Find mj lat days of life like theirs. As sweet with child en'a love and prayer. And like a winter appe. ABOUT WOMEN. The executive committee of the Woman's flub, Boston, have arranged for a series of ecture for the winter season. Berlin ladies wear Parisian fashions just as thev used to do before the war, notwith standing their protestations that they never womld. A eentleman who has been struck by a Tonne lad v's beauty has determined to fol JOW lOU II JUUCUOU, mote him." and "kUs the rod that The Akron, Ohio. Board of Eduoation has apointed Miss Anna Parsons, of Zanesvllle, principal of the Akron high school at a sal ary ol f 1,4W. Gev. Campbell, of Wyoming, says in a reent letter: "The sta'ement that respectable women did not generally vote at the last election is, I believe, incorrect. I think that More women voted at the last than at auy previous election in the territory." French politeness at the benefit of Mille. Dajazet: " What age is she? " said a Repub lican; "she still looks so young. Citi en," responded the person addressed, ".eile aura bieutot vingt ans, pour la quartieme fois " in a littie while she will be twenty for the fourth time. A dispensary f r women has been estab lished at Benares, the holy city of the llin toos, by one of the princess of India. Miss BriDk. M. D.. has charge. According to The Friend of India an extersive field has been opened in India for women physicians. no much have Mis- Brink's services Deen appreciated that several more women doc tors could find employment in Benares. Madame Jennie VanZandt has a daughter 14 years old whose voice is said to be something remarkable. Mapleson, the London impresario. oOers to give her four years in struetion under the most eminent Italian masters, during which time she will receive 400 per year, on condition that a contract is sigued by which he will have her services for MX years lrom the time she is prepared for her debut in tue opera. The new Enjlish wife of the renowned P. T. Barnuoi is thus described as she appeared the other day in Cincinnati at a circus per Xormance: She is apparently about twenty - four years old, and looks like a lady of amiability and refinement. She is short in stature, inclining to embonpoint; blonde eomplexiou; features of a pure English type: eyes blue; hair a golden brown; profile decided and regular. It was evidently hpr first visit to the hippodrome, for her interest was nndipguh-ed, and she watched the Indians and the butlalo with special wonder. A bachelor thus impeaches woman: impeach her in the name of the great whale f the ocean, whose bones are torn afunder to enable hereto keep staight. I impeach. her in the name ol the peacock, whose strut without his permission she has stealthily and without honor assumed. I impeach her in the name the horse, whose tail she has perverted fr im its use to the making of wavy tres-es to decorate the back ot the head and neck, 1 impeach ber in the name of the kangaroo, whose beautiful figure she, in taking upon ber the Grecian bend, has brought into illfavor and disrepute. Miss Cushman has written the following aote to a gentleman in Boston: Mr. Dexter Smith: "Dear Sir I am in receipt of your note fthe litb, which ab-euce from town has j prevented my receiving sooner. In answer to your inquiries, I can only say that I am about acting a series of engagements in various places, which will probably be the last of my dramatic performances; but with regard to the place where I shall take my final farewell ot the stage, or whether I shall ever take any formal larewell, it is impossible for me to say. Yours very truly, Charlotte Cushman." I hoar that the ladies of the leading Bonapartist families are at present at work on a arpet which they intend to offer as a New Tear's present to the Empress Eugene. Thia carpet is composed ol squares of fine embroidery, each the size of a carte-de-visite photograph. Each lady is to work one square; those who are in possession of armorial bearings are to embroider their arms on their portions, while those who are not entitled to such distinctions are 6imply to work their monograms. The different sections are to be joined by golden braid embroidered with violets, and the whole carpet ! to be edged with a broad border of similar color and design. Thus do the female rar tisiaiis of toe empress design to deposit tut ir homaze not only at, but under the feet of thur liege lady, the Kappel suggest that very few squares will be worked for it by the ladies of Alsace and Loraine. Paris letter. It is now nearly two years since the death Of Mr. Horace Qreeley, and this season, for the first time since that event, his daughters, Ida and Gabrielle, occasionally make .their appearance In public. Gabrielle is still very young, probably not more than eighteen, but has grown during her years of seclusion inioatall and very beautiful girl. Both have eiqninite complexions, lovely eyes ripefc cariet lips, and the sweet, child-like express on which distinguished their father Ida is most like her fa'her, i owever, in appearance, and Grtbriell like her mother. f.viueiüiy the most devr.ted affection aub-si.-t- Uteen the two girls. Id,i,tiie elder, jrw ks alter her sister lovingly, and says IIn't hh9 grown tall and pretty?" And Obrie-lle remark: Don't you think I bo gintc look more like Ll?" Their manners are very charming, perfectly simple, easy and unaffected, jet Ubabne a rof goi;d trttdii.g, and even difetinction, of which

they are apparently quite unaware. New York Letter. Matilda Fletcher's work during the past year, according to the Fort Dodge Messenger, has been enormous. She has lectured

too nichts, traveled 7.000 miles, written a book upon "Practical Ethics" for schools j and families, arranging It by an easy, oricrinal and unions method, and has In vented to illustrate it a beautiful chart, presenting the faculties and virtues in such a harmonious and truthful light that a child can comprehend and remember with ease thdr mutual relations and meanings. She ha also nrenared three new lectures, two of whioh "The Heart of a Man." and "What Can You Do?" were given to the public last win tor. and met with great pop ularity. The other one, significantly styled "The Ethics of Marriage," will be presented rar me nrsi time tue cuiuibr Krcidea this work she has devised a nian establishing industrial expositions in the public schools, which the lower house of the legislature, acting upon ner suggestions, last winter enacted into a law. tshe has i-npnt her leisure hours during tne year in practical inventions, naving mveutm a carriage with four entirely new features, a . i . . . j trunk combining four distinct articles of furniture, etc Iler Hie has been a busy one, and its result is one of ereat credit, I jet others ot her sex take inspiration, and above ail let the world give full credit to the work and success of this one earnest woman. WHIPPED AND PILLORIED. THE WHIPPINa POST IN DELAWARE THE KAOKRNESM OP THE WOMEN TO SEE THE PUNISHMENT INFLICTED. The correspondent of the Baltimore Amer ican, writing from Wilmington, Delaware, thus describes a strange Bight: The first in stallmont ol the semi-annual whippings in this county took place at New Castle at noon to day. About 400 peopio crowded tnem selves Into the jail yard, some of whom were women, who seemingly enjoyed me soectacle with equal delight with the men. others oi me same Bex mounted . . . . . . the roof of the sheriff's dwelling, and bei nor warmlv robed sal there laughing at the sufferings of those who were fastened to the post. The castigation was administered by William II. Laoison, the new sheriff. who was sworn in a weeic ago. lie was very partial in the exercise of his duty, fa von Dir some ana wnippmg otners wun great severity. lie disobeyed in many In stances the injunction. " well laid on," and with determination written on nis race wielded the cat with a swift and sodden jerk in others. The offences were all of a like nature, none being punished for anything other than larceny, and whatever disparity was intended by the court was meted out by it in the termä of imprisonment, and in other ways, so that the sheriff should have been impartial in carrying out that portion of the sentence which the law imposed upon mm. lie cnose to act differently, however, and once more exhibited the inequality of Delaware's pecu liar mode ot punishment. As a sort of pre lude to the whipping, three men were pil loried. each for an hour, as a Dart of the nun ishment for the day. They were John T. Dolan, Edward Sanders, and George Gilbert, of all of whom we shall speak again presently. Edward Johnson, a white horse thief, was the nrst victim oi me iasn, and his back was reddened under twenty blows lightly laid on. He bore his punishment quietly and with a subdued spirit, without lunching, lie was then remanuea tojan ior three years. William Gilbert took bis twenty lashes for the larceny of ahorse with greater indications ot pain, the cat being more heavily laid on. when released he BpraDg away from the post, saying, "How's that for high. sberiM7" lie has two years to serve in jau. Josepn Btansoury had stolen a watch, for which be got one f ear's imprisonment and twenty lashes ightly laid on, which he received quietly. lie will wear a convict's lacKet ior six months alter discharge. Henry H. Wilson, for the larceny of chickens, was sentenced to receive fifteen lashes, but sixteen were administered, and the sheriff was in the act of laving on the seventeenth, when he was 8 topped by the warden. Wilson WRITHED CONSIDERABLY under his punishment. A term of six months awaits him, and a convicts Jacket for six months afterward. Shadrach Trusty, a colored lad, gave evidence or much sutlering during the whipping, but walked laugh ingly away from the post after it was over. He iumoed and floundered about very much. and several times pulled out his hands from the hasps, which were too large to hold him firmly to the post. Finally his hands were wrapped, and he broke away no more. At one time he kicked viciously at the sheriff, and all his gyrations brought out tremen dous laughter and cheering from the crowd. Besides his twenty lashes, he has yet six months' imprisonment to serve, and then a convict's jacket t j wear for a similar period. Clayton Earle (colored), 65 years of age, paid the penalty of an enort to steal corn in twelve lashes, which were well laid on, and under which he writhed greatly. His bodv shooklikean aspen. He was dismissed with the convict s jacket. Clayton is the same individual who brought suit against his ac cuser in the United States Court for an al leged attempt to control his vote by threats and intimidations. The case has not yet lecn tried. The severest Hogging was vis ited upon Charles Brown, who had Deen convicted of the larceny of clothing. For some reason the sberin spared not the cat, but laid it on heavily, which Brown bore without a murmur, and without any indi cations of pain. His back was much marked, more so than any of the rest, be ing covered with great red welts, but no blood was drawn. Blood did not appear upon the backs ot any. Brown has entered upon a year's imprisonment, and will after ward wear a convict's lacket lor six months. John T. Doison. (white.) who had stolen a horse, was the last to receive bis punish ment. He was both young and handsome, and in his face exhibited the pain which ho was suffering, and elicited much sympathy. A CHILD MURDERER. The Rome (Ga.) Commercial has the fol lowing strange instance of a juvenile crime: The most diabolical act in the criminal records ot this oounty was perpetrated day betöre yesterday, on Mai. Wooley's planta tion, about a mile west of Kingston. A negro girl, Cass Arp, 12 years of age, stole ftotne potatoes. No one save herself was cognizant of the theit but a little negro boy, aged two years, a eon of Tom Wooley. This boy told on the girl. The girl afterward strayed off with tLe little boy, ana unoriiy returned aione. Tne child being missed for some time, there was some uneasiness concerning its whereabouts and poarch was made, but nowhere could It be fuund. Suspicions were awakened that the child had been loully dealt with. Capt. lien Koper discovered some tracks on the river bank. The tracks indicated that two children had gone down to the river, and but one of them, the larger, had returned. On com paring the larger track with one made by the girl, Cass Arp.the two tracks were indentical. 1 be girl was arrested, and afterward con fussed to having thrown the child into the Etowah, where it was drowned. She showed where she stood when throwing the child into the river, and where, when in the act, she slipped and came very near falling in herbei.'. She said that the child floated down the river some distance, crying out several times before it finally sunk. The girl was sent to Cartersville, where she is now confined in prison. We understand that several of her relatives are now in jail for committing various crimes, stealiug, burning gin-houses, etc.

THE LAST.

The last kiss Whose fond lip- will give It? The latyy What blest heart will live It? The last morn What bright eyes will sesthat? Tne last man What poor soul will see that? The last pane Whose sad heart will know It? The last smile What fair face will show It? The last boon Who will Kive this kindly? The last fault Who will pass that blindly ? The last hopeFancy drops the curtain! Of things last Only two are certain ; The last aid This will be a true man's ; The last wordThat will be a woman's. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. TWO TRAINS CARRT A BRIDGE DOWN A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. A Baltimore dispatch to the New York Herald of the 30th ult. gives the following strange escape from a terrible disaster: A tremendous smash-up occurred on the Northern Central railroad this afternoon, at about 4 o'clock, near the Relay House, seven miles from this city. The cockers vi lie accommodation train going south, and the York accommodation going north, were passing each other on the bridge over Lake Roland, about 100 yards above the station, when the bridge, of about 100 feet span, gave way, and the baggage car and one passenger coach of each train were precipitated into the lake. Upton Young, of Woodberry, was In stantly killed, and George Welsner, ot Cockneyville, had both legs fractured, one them being terribly crusnea, ana be is not expected to live till morning. Both were on the northward bound train, and both in the baggage car. Samuel Harris, conductor of the train, was severely hurt, and the engineer slightly Injured. A number oi nassen eers were bruised. The coaches quickly Älled with water, not, how ever, before the passengers were rescued through holes cut in the tops of the cars. The- scene of the disaster at 10 o'clock to-night was remarkable, the smashed cars, baggage and tenders bng piled in an inciscrlminate mas at the bottom of the lake, and the crushed tubes and rods of the iron bridge sticking out like quills in every direction. The escape of any ot the passengers appears wonderlul, and can only oe accounted ior bv the fact that one train had lust left the station and the other was slacking speed as it approached the Relay. The bridge had been thoroughly repaired within two weeks, and engineers are unable to account fyr its sudden collapse. The Baltimore papers of the 1st Inst, give fuller particulars of this strange accident, from which the following additional iacis are obtained: Aa the Dridge gave way ana the passengers felt themselves tailing, all sprang to their feet and made a simulta neous rush towards the rear door, lhe shock the forward end of the cars struck the bottom of the lake was so great that all who were then scrambling forward were jerked violently toward the submerged end of the cars, except as they managed to seize hold of the seats, men commencea a fearlul scramble for the upper end, which rested against the abutments. Every man was lor himself, and struggled for his own life regardless of all else. The incline cf the car was so steep that it was not an easy task in the excitement to work upward, ami many fell to the floor whilst their more for tunate companions scrambled over them. Men struggled over the f acks of the seats fighting almost tor feet room. Several in their wild haste BROKE THROUGH THE WINDOWS and fell into the lake, and but for the aid of those outside might have been drowned. Two ladies residing on the opposite side of the lake seeing the disaster, bravely jumped into a small skiff and paddled acioss, and rendered efficient service In rescuing three men and a boy who had fallen into the water. The news of the accident spread with amazing rapidity, and in less than five minutes over fifty persons had assembled around the wreck. As soon as the officers of the trains supposed that all the passengers were safe, they turned their attention to the baggage cars, which were almost entirely submerged. It was at first supposed that the occupants ot these cars had been all killed, but this fear was dispelled in a few minutes by a series of lusty yells which came from the interior of the baggage car belonging to the north bound train. At first no answer could be received from the occupants of the baggage car on the south-bound train, Dut a mo ment or so later a slight rapping was heard against the roof of this car, and it was then known that there was still some one alive within. The train hands quickly procured axes, and in less time than it takes to relate it holes were chopped in the roofs ot the baggage cars. During this operation the greatest excitement existed among the passengers, and the crowd was increased every moment by fresh arrivals from the surrounding farm houses and country residences. The men engaged in cutting a hole in the roof or the north-bouud baggage car completed their work first, and on piercing through the hole they ba.l made they saw the interior of the car filled with water. while small boxes, trunks and packages were floating around. Mr. Harrison, the baggage master, and a passenger named Ed ward Kite, were in tbfs car, and although badly bruised, were found to be not seriously injured. As these men were dragged out the passengers gave a rousing chef r, and at the same moment the workmen on the south bound baggage car succeeded In breaking through the rof of the car, when A SICKENING SIGHT met their gaze. The body of a found among the baggage in mangled condition, while the man was a terribly groans of another victim could be heard proceeding from the middle of the car. The first man rescued was the baggagemaster, a Mr. Curtis. Next came a badly wounded man. who&e groans were heart-rending, and whose injuries were supposed to be neces saruy fatal. This man. whose name is George Weisner, had his left leg shockingly mashed and lacerated and the right limb badly bruised. The dead body was then taken out with great difficulty, one man having to enter the water and lift the body up. The remains were found to be those of Mr.Upton Young, of Woodberry. The body was terribly mangled. The hands of the deceased still clutched the handles (ft a trunk with Buch force that the bandies were cutt off, as they could not be removed until after the body had been taken from the car. It appears that Weisner and Young were both passengers, and had got on the cars at Woodberry for the purpose of going on a hunting expedition. Mr. Purdy, the engineer of the south-bound train, was severely bruised about the face and body, having been thrown out of the cab by the force of the shock when the bridge ML Mrs. Jane Marshall, a lady p aasen ger on the north bound 'train, was severely injured about the body by being trampled upon iu the excitement following the accident. Mr. Harvey Winder, of this city, a passenger on the south bound train, was severely bruised and cut about the head by being pushed off the platform of a car. A number of persons in the passenger cars were thoroughly soaked with water, and had rather a cold bath for the season. The bridge gave way

all at onc9 and fell in one mass, where it lies at the bottom of the lake under the trucks ol the baggage cars and tenders. RAILWAY MURDER. THE PERILS OF EUROPEAN RAILROAD TRAVELING MURDERED IN A COMPARTMENT. The London Times correspondent, at Vienna, writing on the 6th inst., says: The public have not ben a little startled by the news which arrived from Moravia on Tuesday last, that on the night before a passenger had ben found in a second-class carriage of the night mail between Brunn and Prerau with his throat cut and his pockets rifled of their contents. From letters found on his person it has been ascertained that the deceased, a man of about sixty, was the owner of a spirit refinery in Brauek, Ernest Katscber by name, a man very much esteemed and known to be wealthy. He had gone in the morning to Brunn to see his daughter, who was married there, and to transact business, and was on his way home by the 11:15 p. m. train. The deceased had been seen in the restaurant of the station be 'ore the departure of the train. There were those who had seen him count a considerable sum of money and bank notes, and look over a quantity of state bonds and other stock. The body' was found by the guard at the station of Cropin, close to Prerau. It was still warm, showing that the deed bad only just been perpetrated. At the bottom of the carriage was found a pocket knite, with a blade of some three inches long and only moderately sharpened. The deceased must have been lying down, and was probably asleep, for he had taken off his boots. Yet he must have awoke and attempted resistance, for he had cuts and scratches in the face, while his wrists were grazed. He had been robbed of everything ot value about him except a golden bracelet, which he bought in Brunn. The guard was the first to supply a clew. He remembered a small, dark man, in a long gray overcoat and a soft felt hat, who had a third-class ticket and attempted to get into the secondclass carriage where Katscber was sesteri

when the train started." The clue tb. given was followed with such diligence t Lu the MURDET.ER WAS ARRESTED on the afternoon of the next day at a place called Pressnitz, and as evidence of his guilt was found in bis possession, he at once made a full confession. Iiis name is Leopold Freund, an Israelite native of the town of Treucrin, in the north of Hungary. He had been for a tuort time at one of the cafes of Brunn, but had to leave. According to his confession he was very " hard up," and was determined to have money at any price. He was ready, as he said, to kill any man to attain this object. He bad seen Katscber showing his pocket-book at the railway station, and dogged him. He only had a few florins, and had therefore to husband bi3 means. This was the reason that he only took his ticket repeatedly for short distances a circumstance which first directed suspicion against him. He could not do the deed the first time he went into the compartment with Katscber, for the second-class compartments com municate with each other on the top. and there was another man in the next compartment, who got out at Nezannsslitz. Katscber was asleep when he returned, haying taken another ticket; and so successful was bis first stab with the pocket-knife that it cut the man's throat right througb.so that he could not utter a cry, which might have been heard by the guard, who was in his box on the very same carriage behind. Still, the man was not dead. He tried to resist, till a second cut finished him. When the train slackened its pace at the station of Kojetin. the murderer got out through the carriage window on the opposite side, and, lavortd by the darkness, got away. A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. STEAM NO LONGER NEEDED WATER AS A MOTIVE POWER TWO GALLONS WILL CARRT A TRAIN TO SAN FRANCISCO AND RETURN AN ENORMOUS PRESSURE GIVEN. The Philadelphia correspondent of the New York Graphic describes a machine in process of construction in that city which, if the claims of its inventor, John W. Keeley, prove to be within the bounds of its capabilities, will awaken the interest of every civilized creature upon the globe, and mark a new epoch in human progress. It has been constructed at considerable expense, and after nearly fourteen years of repeated trial and failure. This machine is nothing less than a contrivance for the application of an alleged new motor a new principal of motive power as far superior to steam as steam was superior to wind and water power. What this principle is as vet re mains a secret known only to the in ventor, and as such would naturally be entitled to all the incredulity that has in variably attached to exorbitant claims of a similar character. There are, however, cer - tain statements made concerning it which will soon be easily susceptible of proof or disproof, as well" as certain names con nected with it that will compel the respectful consideration of the public. A number of gentlemen in Philadelphia and in Worcester have contributed money to further the construction of the machine, and in New York John J. Cisco, Israel Corse, Hatch, of the firm of Fisk k Hat ch. and others are said to have advanced considerable sums of money on condition of receiving the . exclusive right to dispose ot the machine in certain prescribed territories. The new apparatus is in the house of the inventor, John W. Keeley, No. 1810 Master street. It is so near completed to his satisfaction that a model for deposit in the patent office at Washington has been began, and will soon be finished. But the most marvelous statement is yet to be made. Mr. Keeley claims that in the machine now at his residence be has developed THE EN0RM0U3 PRESSURE of 7,000 pounds to the square inch. When it is remembered that steam boilets are only subjected to a strain of from thirty to perhaps two hundred pounds per square inch, according to the purposes for which they are constructed, a proper sense of this leap upward to 7,000 pounds will ba realized. With this power at his command, unencumbered with a corresponding cost and weight of metal, man's complete conquest over nature would seem to be a thing of the near future. Mr. Keeley asserts that with only two gallons of water he would bo able to draw a train of cars from Philadelphia to-San Francisco and back again. The water, it is stated by a friend of Mr. Keeley, would be ued over and over, something as steam is utilized in a condensing engine. Incredible as this claim is the inventor further declares that he obtains this vast power without the use of tuel,without the use of chemicals of any kind, and without the use of electricity or magnetic currents. A conclusion naturally arrived at when it is stated that no fuel is used is that the power is obtained by the deco.-i position of the water and the rapid disengagement of hydrogen and oxygen, or of both these gases; The assertion that no chemicals or electrical currents are ussd is supposed to be made to overthrow this inference. The use ot lorcd derived Irooi the evolution of gases is no new idea, and the only reason ihat it has not been employed is the fact that the consumption of the necessary chemical substances has been found to be more costly than the consumption of coal in gen erating: an equal amount ot force by means of steam.

WHAT THE CHIMNEY SANG. From Bret Harte's new Volume of Poems.) Over the chimney the night wind sang And chanted a melody no one knew; And the Woman stopped as the babe she tossed, And thought of t eoi e she had lone since lost. And said, as her tear-drops back she forced, "I hate the wind In the chimney." Over the chimney the night-wind ang And chanted a melody no oie knew : And the Children said, as they closer drew, M Tis some witch that Is cleaving the black night through Tis a fairy trumpet that Just then blew, And we fear the wind lu the chimney." Over ths chimney the night-wind sang, And chanted a melody no one kney ; And the Man. as he sat on his hearth below, Haid to himself, MltwlU surely snow. And fuel Is dear, and waeea low. And I'll stop the leak in the chimney." Over the chimney the night-wind sang. And chanted a melody no one knew ; But the Poet lisrened and smiled, fur he ' Was Man. and Woman, and Child, all three. And he said, "It is God's own harmony. This wind that stngs In the chimney." ' STILL ANOTHER.

THE TERRIBLE MURDER AT CLOVERDALE. The Well Worn Insanity Dodge Enacted by the Murderer. A VIVID DESCRIPTION. AN INTERKSTINO ACCOUNT OP THE AFFAIR BT A SENTINEL REPORTER WHICH TELLS THE WHOLE STORY. The Sentinel ot the 2d contained a telegram giving the general facts in regard to the murder of his wife by George Martin, a weil-to-do farmer of Putnam county, living fourteen miles from Greencastle. Yes terday the inquest .was held, and the lollowicg additional facts learned: R; t"v Staunton, at whose house the tragedy occurred, testined as ionows: we were all conversing in the room, and Martin got into a passion with bis wife and made some charges against her, which she denied. Ue asked ber to give bim the child and he would give her $100, but she refused to give the child up. lie - then offered her $500 if she would go to ureencastle and get a di vorce, and be would pay all ex penses. to mis sne maae - no answer. Martin then offered me five dollars if I would take bis wife to Greencastle next morning, bat she refused to go. He gave ner some minutes to consider the proposi tions. On her again refusing, he drew hia pistol and, putting it within a FOOT OF HER HEAD, nreu, and sne died instantly. This occurred about 9 o'clock Sunday night. I then jumped up and attempted to catch him, when he drew a knife and cut through my vest and two shirts, just scratching the skin, and also cut me badly on tne Jianus, and men ran out me door. Naomi Staunton, wife of Riley Staunton, corrooorateu nis testimony in ail respects, and added the following: When Martin said he wanted a divorce, his wife said, "If you want to go, go." lie told her he was tired of her, and wouldn't live with her another day or nigh t and she should get no more of his money lie then asked her if she had been a dutiful wife and mother, and she said she had. lie drew a pistol and asked her to admit that she had not been faithful, and she said : I'll die first. Mrs. Staunton then followed, to the same effect as the testimony of her husband. Dr. R. C. Dunnington, of Cloverdale, who maae the examinotion of the corpse said: The ball from the pistol entered the left parietal bone and ranged diagonally to base of skull and lodged in the right occipetal bone. No marks of violence "on the aead beside the wound, which I should judge to have been made by a number 22 cartridge A a wound of that kind would cause instant death. The examination was made on Tues day, Dec 1. It was also shown in evidence that when Martin left Staunton's he went to Tom Morgan's, about two and a half miles dis tant, where he arrived between 10 and 11 o'clock. He told Morgan that HE HAD SHOT HIS WIFE, but . did not know whether he had killed her, and would give him five dollars to say nothing about it. He would also give Morgan ten dollars if he would! find out if his wife was dead and meet him at a certain church nearby and tell him. Martin from here went to Mr. Flanigan's, and stayed all night. Ue reached Cloverdale Monday morning and bought a 1 quart of whisky, on which ho got drunk and went to Mike uohn's, wnere he was ar rested at 7:30 A. m., by John Urothers, con stable of the townsLip, who kept him in the upper story of the Central House. In an INTERVIEW WITH MARTIN at the jail ho told tne reporter the main facts iu his life. Ho was born In Morgan county, Ky., July 13, 1837. In 1861 he went into the army as a volunteer in the Twentysecond Kentucky infantry, from which he was discharged on tbe 25th day of November. 1865. He then came to Putnam couuty, Ind., and shortly afterward married a Miss Bradstreet, a young lady of excellent family and considerable property. She died April 11, 1872, leaving a girl baby with hi brother-in-law. After her death he hired a widow woman, Mrs. Capps, who had several children, to keep house tor him. Ue soon afterwards became engaged to an old maid, luizabeth Bule, but got tired of her, and induced Mrs. Capps to give bim her daughter Nancy, aged . 14, for his wife and married her on the :h or March, 1873- He savs thev erot alonsr verv ' aicelv with the exception of a few troubles with his mother-in-law. When a&ked concerning the death of his wife be played tbe in sanity dodge aud said she was at home, and he wanted to goto her, as he didn't like to have her stay all alone at night. When asked why he was in jail with handcuffs on, he came close to the cratiEg in the door and whispered: "I'll tell you the truth about it. I am in höre because I killed Jim. Akers when we were playing cards at Jim.'s house last night. He struck me first and I shot him in self-delence, I SHOT HIM with a revolver, and don't know whether he is dead or not." He talked very sensibly upon every sub ject but the death of his wife, but the mo ment that was touched he played the insane game. Persons who are acquainted with the murderer and his late wiie say that for some time he treated his wile very well, but Eince tbe birth of a child, about seven months ago, he has become ettrangled and endeavored to get rid of her by cruelty and abuse of all kinds. Soon after the marriage, Elizabeth. Rule, to whom he bad teen previously engaged, sued him for breach of promise and the suit was compromised by his paying her $000. About three weeks ago he decided to remove to Mattoon, 111., and sold hia farm, but bis wife would not sign the deed until compelled to do so by cruel beatings. They shipped their goods to '. that point, and started on a trip through .

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- - -, r? na tives in the former state and final coming around to Mattoon. Not finding their goods there they came back to Cloverdale to see what had become of them, and - uring their visit there atnnnI with Mr Staunton, at whose HOrSE THE MURDER OCCURRED. W hen he shot bis wife she was eittinz in a chair with their child sleepiDg in her arms. and death waa so sudden that she - did not move, but sat upright her rhalr nritVi tVia V,1-w-1 Mnb. in ling over her face, and the babe still sleeping I k. . L' 1 J J . 11 . . . . i. j ucr urujs. one uiu not iail, DUt Sal DOlfc nrlcht in hnr rhalr nntll UL-on (ivmti It h her friends and laid upon a bed. Martin has been a drtnklnc man all hia lif hnt since the death of HIS FIRST WIFE has been drinkinz to excess. Ue has always Dorne the reputation of a rake and soon tires of anv one person. Ue has a brother 'in Missouri and another in Kentucky; besides , these he has a moiner ana several sisters living on tbe old home farm tn Ken tucky. While his character was very bad. hr'a was crood. Kha.waa ilvan known as an affectionate wife and mother. and every one spoke well of her. The excitement in tne town of Cloverdale and the city of Greencastle was very great and it was feared that he would be lynched by the Indignant people. The coroners urv after hearing &ilth f-vin rpstr. day morning rendering the following verdict: '-That the deceased. N'tncv a Martin came to her death, by murder in the first uegree, ny a Bnoi irom a pistol In tb6 hands ol George N. Martin." The Place where the mnrripr wm mmmiitAd is about two miles east of Cloverdale, which place is aoout two miles south ol Greencastle. The COrDSe of the mnrderAri woman will be Interred to-day. THE ITALIAN RIOT. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ITALIAN AND AMERICAN MINERS AT BCENA VISTA, PA., THREE MEN KILLED AND SEVERAL WOUNDED QUELLING THE DIS CURB ANCE. The Pittsburg Telegraph of the 30th inst. contains the following account ol the min ing riots near that city already sent to the . Sentinel by telegraph : The troubles which existed among the Italian miners of Armstrong's works, and the striking American coal diggers, whose places the Romans had taken, seemed to have subsided until Saturday nigbt.wben a bloody riot broke out lasting not only all night, but nearly all day Sunday. The result was the killing of three of the participants and the wounding of seven others. The first intelligence received in this city of the disturbance came yesterday shortly afternoon in tbe shiipe of several telegrams from the scene of war .signed by C. H. Armstrong, John Guffey, P. S. Todd and Thomas Moore, Betting forth that firing was then going on and had been since 8 o'clock Saturday night, and calling on Sheriff Hare to take some measures - to preserve the peace. Later in tbe afternoon the sheriff received another dispatch from Shaner's, saying that a riot was then progressing at that point. Summoning nitre of his deputies, the sheriff secured special arrangmenta on the Connellsville road lor transportation to the scene of the fight. The special train bearing tbe sheriff and his party reached Armstrong's, the scene of the principal disturbance, about 6 o'clock. The confusion attending the riot, and tbe inevitable contradictory statements which always accompany affairs oi this nature, made it difficucult for the sheriff to reach a clear and satisfactory explanation of tbe disturbance and learn its origin. THE ITALIANS' SIDE OF THE STORY Is that the firing commenced from the Allegheny county side of the Yoaghiogheny river, Saturday night, and that some of their men were wounded. Sunday morning, about 9 o'clock, five of the Italians started over to Bnena Vista, about a mile below Armstrong's, in a barge, to procure the services of Dr. Stewart for the wounded. Baforethey had reached the shore a party rushed out of ambush on the river bank and opened a heavy fire upon them, driving them back to tbe Westmoreland county side ct tbe river. Tbe Italians retreated to Shaner's, not far from Buena Vista, and were fire. at all tha way back. They returned to Armstrong's and tbe firing was kept up until about half past 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The Italians returned their fire as long as the ammunition held out, which was about 3 o'clock in" tbe afternoon. The retreating party took refuge in Guisetti's house, at Armstrong's, where they were subjected to a heavy fire from parties over the river, who had congrefated there to the number of at least 200. n this fight two Italians Charles Moses aud Frank Mora were wounded. FROM ANOTHER STANDPOINT. Mr. Frank Patterson and other citizens of Buena Vista give a somewhat different version of the crossing of tbe Italians to the Allegheny side. Their statement is that the boat contained, not five, but between twenty and thirty Italians armed. The impression of the citizens was that the object of the Italians in cresting to Buena Vista was to set fire to tbe town, and this supposition, as may be imagined, caused intense exciteuient. It was also stated that the Italians in the boat were supported by a large force from the other side who kept up a constant firing during the time their companions were crossing the river and for some time after they were routed. The women , and children of Buena Vista congregated at the house of Mr. Patterson, which is located in. tbe lower part of the town, and consequently not so much exposed to the bullets of the invading Italians. The Buena Vistians claim to have taken no part in the mining troubles further than to preserve tbe peace in the town, and that all their troubles were chargeable to outside parties not only the Italians, but persons residing on the Allegheny county side of the river, who made their headquarters in the town. The villagers had pcted entirely on tbe defensive. and would not; have fired upon the Italians in the boat had they not been satisfied that the party meant mischief. James Lloyd, a ealoon-keeper in the town, says that shots had been fired at him from tbe r-;,ofcii.e side of the river frequently duiiug the pas ten days. THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. Dr. Penny, who went up from GuflVy's station to attend the wounded, reported seven wounded and three killed. The names of two of the killed were ascertained to be Frank Abatto, 6hoi through the bowels, and Ambrose Melano.shot through the head. Tbe names of the wounded could not be learned. About bait-past 4 iu the afternoon a heavv fire was opened on the Italians at the coai works, both from the opposite side ot tbe river and from the hill on the Westmoreland side above the works. Finding themselves in a tight place and out of ammunition, the Italians run up a flag of truce, in the shape ot a sheet fastened to a musket, when the firing ceased and a parley ensued.. The demand was made ot tbe Italians that thev should give up their arms. This they retüsfd tj do, replying that nothing short of military forces should deprive them of their guns. Guisettl afterwards stated that tbe arms had been taken from the men, but that Saturday night they got "mad," broke into the storeroom of the works and took out twentyeight guns.

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