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THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. -BY THE AUTHOR OH" "JOHN HALIFAX, OES TLIMAS." IFrora the "W omen's Bide, May 29, 1875.) O let me smile a little, I pray Jutt a little, and while I may, Evena a child miles, after to-day 1 shall hive whole years to weep in. 0 let me talk like a child, unchld; After to day 'twill all be hid ; No hand will lift op the com n lid Of the silence I hall sleep in. In Portmoatn harbor the good ship ride, Kocked fcalely upon the Pcju tides. As love in a hapty heart abides, Moviog with eacn emotion, i With voices and hands alive ail o er. And to-morrow-perbaps for evermore- , 1 shall look out from a desolate snore Upon an empty ocean, Ulove, my hero and my saint, ,,,, M I- KnUatof the white shield, without taint, Tills woman-heart turns sick and faint. Altnougn my Urs may fail not. J roc the rocks undersnnling seas, I hear a tempest In every breeze, 1 itel the icebergs as the 7 freeze In the deeps where ship can sail not. O love, my love, so brave, so young, Mron arm, pare heart and si ent tongue! O lone.y rears that stretch out so long, one cry, as of lost eii-tence. And my feoul sits down before its doom a white host sits f.t the door cf a tomb , io nwan, no nxiek, no tears, no gloom. Only a still persistence. lia of pood cheer. 811 on, sail on, Unto life or aeath : for both are one To the infinite faith in sweet days gone. To the infinite love that folds thee. These girlish arms are weak, I now, UuT-'ny heart Is strong a a well-bent b3w, And whither thou goest I will go, ia my spirit that upholds thee. tf&il on, sill on through the frozen seas, o esd;ess labors and little ease ; Come back trioiflpbant, if Heaven so please, Or with nnwon gal. inglorious; Only come back ! No. Should Ood say, That lie has crowned thee another way, i.)vel ., beyond our night. Ills day, Aud we are yet victorious. NEWS AND GOSSIP. Tb3 surface of Lake Michigan is 530 feet above the sea level. . Oborge Brown, ol Cairo, failed the other dav. and bis debts were 27 cents; assets, 26 ceir.i. The Rev. L. T. Hardy, a Baptist pastor in r Sbeiby county, Kentucky, baa had a terrible I fail froni decency, and baa fled, witn a 1 brotner of one of his female parlsioners in Lot pursuit. The Buffalo Exprf 53, with praiseworthy adhesion to justice, indignantly denies that the rb;taar7 verses in the Philadelphia Ledger are written by Mr. George V. Child' bookkeeper. Joualt in his "Abraham Lincoln; La Jen nesst?, ot sa Vie Politique," speaks of 'A reverend Beoeher-stove," which makes it hotter for mat peccant preacher than Beach is dr ing just now. Tbe reaaair.3 of Col. Benjamin Walker and nr .Trhn Cochrane, revolutionary heroes -w ere Ye interred in the Forest Hill Ceme tery. Utica, m the 17th, with Imposing dem onstratioas. The inauaoiauni whlca is t" contain the re maics of Mirshal Prim has been com pleted at Madrid, and was recently dedicated with impressive ceremonies in me prüsanca of an liucseaäa assemolae or psopie. Tit Uiusjl9uni wbiith is to contain the remiius of Marähal Prim ha? baen com Dieted at Madrld,&nd wa recently dedicated with iinpresVive ceremonies in the presence of an immense assemblage ot people. The chief of the parties sent out by our -zoverntaentto observe tbe transit of Venus have dellahtful summer before them fizur ins no co-sin9., co-tangents, and logarithms under the tuUry skies of Washington. A General court martial has been insti tuted to assemble at Camp Douglas, Utah, on the 23 i instant, dpt. A. II. Biinbridge,' fourteenth infantry, president, and Lieutenant Joseph Hall, fourteenth infantry, fl2,advocate. cseph Archibald Joyce, ot Cincinnati, vtij-uss tee world to know me ne is not me "egresioos ass" who threatened not to take New "York Times unless it declared for Beecher. Anything to oblige Joseph Archibald. Pass is along. In view of tho f3Ct that officers of the army can not be paid more than half-pay far the month of June, in consequence ot tbe appropriation for the fiscal year fall ins short, Uncle Sam is coins to give them tick fori sub1 if in :e stores. Gov. Gaston, ot Massachusetts, has Issued a special order dishonorably discharging Jobn II. Uill and William E. Harris, privates ia Company II, th regiment, for intoxica'.ion and disorderly conduct while in -uniform on the 17th. The church bells at Stratford, Conn., were rung on the morning of the 17th In honor of the Banker Hill centennial.among thsm the tell of tbe Episcopal Church, which was runt; at tbe receipt of the news of the battle, 100 years ago. The Bos.on Advertiser recalls Lafayette's remark at the Bunker Hill dinner of 1825 that the toast of the ne tt jubilee should be ""Enfranchised Europe," and thinks that, whether tee Marquis be called a Grandlson or not, "it is fair to remember that he was at least a pophet." Tb9 descendants of Samuel Adams have sect to Major Cobb, of Boston, a slab of Scotch gran;te, to be placed In the coping of tbe fence of the Granary Burial u round, on the Tremont street side. The slab Is marked: "Samuel Adtms. the Father of American Independence, born Sept. 22d, 1722; died Oct. 3wb, 1S0S." TudRev. Tuoa. Morris nughea, a clergyman of the established church in Wales, has been sentenced to thres months' imprisonment iorbolnq; drunk and riotous on licensed premises at illegal hours, assaulting the landlord of a public house and John Wlly i urns, auu cjujuiikbuiK "- 5au!t on Miss Emma Alice Hanier. Gabriel Max, a German artist, is said to have produced a painting with a mast extraordinary characteristic. It is a representation of the face of the Savior. At a distance tbe eyes appear to be closed, but as oe alvances tby seem to open gradually until they bend upon the soectator a mournful acd patheiic gaz". This remains until the visitor get3 quite close to the painting, when they are again closed. Attention is being drawa in Eaglaad to the value of ta3 mule. At a recent show the prize mule stood seventeen hands, and was proved to be much stronger than a horse. Anether animal exhibited, and which was only twelve and a half hands high, had been driven the previous week 120 miieäin forty-two hours, and entered Loudon on the evening of the second day, at a pac9 oi ;tn miles an hour, with no rr.ark- cf Uli II

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THE UNFORTUNATE TWELVE. HOW THEY SPENT FRIDAY. . SURMISES A HOT TIME-PKEK151 tukoi uu THE WINDOWS A. REPORTED MEETING) EIT9 OF PAPER HOW THE JCRT IS SUPPOSED TO STAND. The New York Herald of Saturday lurnisbes the following amusing account oi Friday's diversions of the Beecher jury: At 5:.10 o'clock in the morning the jury was awakened after having passed a very un comfortable night on the chairs and tables of Judge McCue's private room. Breaktast had previously been spreaa in me our ui Session's jury room, and the twelve at 6 o'clock were conducted upstairs by a dele gation of five officers. Atter DroaKiast had been aevourea ana me uiuun of the repast cleared off the jury entered i again upon their deliberations, "len to two in favor or the ueienaani - surviveu trrm th r.israt before. Every rap on the door at the entrance of tbe jury rooui caused a commotion among tne people inas I thronged the corridors, but no false alarms were given. At 11 o'clock the jury sent a note, by messenger, to wuuge uiwn rquesting a copy of his charge. This was the third time mac request naa ueen mnuo, ruu the uartlcular reason eiven was that the tarelwe wiahsd to examine closely that part of tbe charge referring to r . D. Mouiton's testimony ana mat oi Mrs. aiounun. Ilia honor at once asuea tne counsel in the case for instructions, ana thflv held a consultation of fiftMi" mlnntes' duration Deiore replying j . . . .. . ... Mers. Evarts, Shearmau, Abbott, Porter and Hill, for the defendant, stood in one corner of the room, with grave faces, discusslog the chances of letting the Jury see the charge. Messrs. Morris, Pryor and Pearsall, sat upon the judge's sofa, and after talking together lor a lew moments aecicea to grant the request of the jury. Mr. E7arts, however, alter a lapse oi several moments, said: "Your Honor, it would not be advi sable for us to allow them to see the charge, and the judge, turnintSto Officer spauiding, who was waitinc lor a reply, remarked: "Shake yonr head at them and say nothing; be as wise as the serpent." Mr. Spauiding grinned his assent, and went on looking HARMLESS AS A DOVE. Atl o'clock two servants from ranter's restaurant were admitted to the jury-room They spread the table, bringing dishes to alt the fancy of each Juror, and then took their leave. The jury ate alone. When dinner was finished the servants entered the room again, accompanied this time by the officers, and the table was cleared of food and disne?. when the door was opened for the servants to carry out tbe remnants or me dinner one juryman siooa in the center of the floor talking, to an officer: two or three with coats off, cigira in their tuoutha and chairs lipped Dacs against the walls, were disposing themselves for an after dinner siesta. The remainder were in comfortable positions, en gaged in waging a desperate war against the hot weather with fans. The paper for making ballots had been used up. and the Jury was delight fully nonchalant over the fact. Judge Neilson, in conversation with a World reporter yesterday forenoon, said, in reference to the jury: ifc is cutupv-vu -i "jvu, uiu w judgment. There may bo two or three per sons in the panel not quite so sharp and (lis cernlnz as tne others, but ou the average it is a far better Jury than is usually to be found. I am patlsfied that they will return a verdict according to tbej evidence." It did not appear whether or no his honor meant that a oi?agreement would be Bccordiug to the evidence. A delightful thing happened a few minutes alter 4 o'clock. Some heathenish person set afloat the probable story tbat Mr. Jeffrey bad been overcome by the heat, and had fallen in a fit, and tbat a doctor had been sent far. Accordingly a number of intelligent people rushod up stairs to see about it. They saw a procession of the antique and horrible style. Tbe Court of Sessions jury room, having a "western expoaure, was norribly HOT BEYOND ENDURANCE, without a piazza or other marten-box, and the jury demanded to be taken across the hail to their own room. This privilege was granted. The doors were flung open. Forth came Mr. Case, tall and thin, shirtsleeved, sweating, carrying his cloth63 and fan in his band and mopping tis brow with a handkerchief, as be strode along, lookicg neither to the right nor left. Unnumbared grins greeted him from an admiring public Mr. Taylor came next the slitnmeit man on the jury, shirt sleeved, ciottes on arm, umbrella in one hand and fan in other, stalkiog like a perspiring chost. In turn thev aU came forth, every one in his shirt sleeves, every cne carrying bis clothes on his arm, every one brandish ing a palm-leaf fan, some with carpet-bass, some with bundles, some smokiDg, all sweating, all with eyes rigidly faced front. One or two could have "stood" with propriety, but the dosen was too much tor tbe gravity of the crowd, which guffawed appreciatlnelv. Mr. Carpenter, who larded the dirty floor next to the last, grinned a little In response, Mr. Jeffrey, who broueht un the rear, pacod vrltb crave and measured step and cast down eves. There had been a rumor that the jarors bad bad an election for an officer to preside over their deliberations. It was of course discredited by tbe fact tbat no gennine news of such an event could get out except under extraordinary circumstances But those who held to it found corrobora tion in the fact that Mr. Jeffrey, on the oc cihlon of this transmigration, stepped forth the last, with Mr. Carpenter just before him. and In one other fact, namely: In the Jury room vacated A SCRAP OF PAPER was picked up with ths word "Carpenter" written on it in Mr. Jeffrey's handwriting. The hypothesis of course was that this was a ballot; that Mr. Carpenter was voted for by Mr. Jeffrev. and that the former being esteemed for the defendant and the latter tor the plaintiff, these two gentlemen were opposing candidates tor some office; all which has svmptoms of ingenuity. But it was a part of the doing of the day, aod therefore worth chronicling, though the fact that Mr. Jeffrey has been elected "clerk" ot tbe Murv rather contests its result. This gatherinsior ballots in a lary-room last vacatea became a pastime during the day. The pacers were eenerallv torn in biU bo that H was a labor of indnite diligence aud ex tremely va?ue result to make anything out I them. A very large bean sifted furnished oulv faiicnt different handwriting?, out of which eijf ht nearly perfect ballotä from dif ferent bands were constructed by an in dustrious person during, some of tbe long hours ot waiting. Of these eight resurrected ballots, six were for the defendant and two for the plaintiff. As to handwriting, only two identitications were made. A bunch oi ballots in ink In a fine business band. and all "plaintiff, were attributed to Mr. Jeffrey; while "aeIfidanV occurring three or four times in an

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Anglicized German text, was naturally credited to tbe German juror, Mr. Fitter. Another compilation of ballots, made without regard to the handwriting, and therefore of no value, came with peculiar accuracy to the result Beecher, 7; Tilton, 5; scattering, 0; scattered, 12. Lste in the evening the best Informed on all accounts had settled into the belief, grounded on A NUMBER OF INFERENCES, that Mr. Jeffrey was strongly for the plaintiff and was the real cause of the disarreement. He, it was shrewdly surmised, and, on tne whole more than surmised, was pressing the other Jurors with argument, and was anxious to have at hand the testi mony of Mr. and Mrs. Moultoc, as well as certain facts of the .Judge's charge. In opposing Mr. Jeffrey Mr. Wbelan was the most active speaker, ana maue one prolonged effort controverting his argument. With Mr. Jeffrey current opinion unKea jur. late'a name, and some tnose or Messrs. Davis and Case. According to this Information the Jury may be described, aa of present interest to the public, aa follows: Chester Carpenter, nonr aeaier, no. joj Van Baren street, Presbyterian; for the defendaut. Griffin B. Halstead, hardware manufac turer, No. 340 Pacific s.ree:, Methodist; for the defendant. Henry Thyer, iron finisher, No. 7b rob!e street, Episcopalian; doubtful. Georee Hull, builder, no. lUJUavoe streer., Baptist; doubtful; probably for tbe defend ant. Christopher Fitter, wood and willow ware, No. 527 Park avenue, Lutheran; for the de fendant. Samuel Flate. roofer. No. 214 Kyerson street. Roman Catholic: probably for the plaintiff. Aueustas It. case, druggist, no. ronn Second street, Presbyterian; doubtful; prob ably for tho plaintiff. Edward Wbelan, bnilder, o. l.'JSi ui ton street. Roman Catholic; for the de fendant. Wm. H. Davis, real estate. No. 662 De Kalb avenue, no denominational affections; doubtful, probably for the plaintiff John F. Taylor, master cork-cuttor, AO. 57 Boerum street, no denominational allliations: probably for tbe deienda.it. William T. Jeffrey, nour dealer, zso. io!s Elliot place. Episcopalian; tor tbe plaintiff. JohnMacMnrn. grocer, ro. yy nocnester avenue, Presbyterian ; for the defendant. THE JURY'S SABBATH. NO COMMUNICATIONS JUDOE NEILSON'3 VIEWS HK WAS NOT GOING TO SENDJOR THEM A SICK JURYMAN A TALK WITH TILTON. How the wretched jurymen spent Sunday may be learned from perusing the following special to tbe Cincinnati Commercial: We have spent Sunday about court until o'clock at night, waiting for the jury to ap pear with their verdict. It has not yet come. and Judge Neilson, who went home late this afternoon, has just sent us word that he will transact no business with the jury after thi3 hour. So wo must return to-morrow Soon alter 10 o'clock this morning his honor and myself male our appearance at the court house. Ho learned from the officers in charge of tbe jary that there was nothing new, that no communications ha J been sent out lr-ni tho iuri-room, and no requests ad dressed to his honor. The jurors had recoivod clean linen, supplies of cigars, and other necessaries. Inevbaa also been al lowed to change quarter?, and thu3 had se cured a passinz glimpse cf the world beyond the jurv-room. Hi3 honor did not formally OD90 court to-dav. He established himself ia Lis cb ambers, announced that he would stiv there all day in waiting upon the lurv and notified them to tbat effect, lie bad made prepi rations to notify interested parties f tne jury sent him news iney baa reacnea verdict, carriages were Kept in waning for that work, and there would be an hour'; delay for those to be sent f jr. On their ar rival he would formally open the court order tbe jury to make their appearance and receive from them the verdict, which would thereupon be regularly entered and the trial closed. There was, however, but ittle prospect of a verdict during tbe day The jury had already given the order for their dinner, which they would not have done unless they expected to remai through the day. The court-room proper has not been open to-day, and only report ers, lawyers and other PRIVILEGED PERSONS, have been allowed access to certain rooms in the court-house. Officers are stationed at every approach to the vicinity of the iury room, and police guard the ouside green fronting it. The jurymen spent their time in arguing with each ether. They bare been often teen in groups oi all sizes. Some times their discussions are evidently very euergetlc. Judge Neilson continues obsti nate in his determination not to send lor the Jury, it they stay out for a week. "Don't fret a bit," naid Judge :euson,"'tne jury are not yet read v. I've had a good deal of ex perience with juries, and nave noticed now toey work. First every man explains bis undigested theory upon such evidence as has particularly impressed him. Eeing twelve men, tbat takes a day or two on a voluminous case, and allowing lor the desultory discussion of each theory, meal times and bleep. Then they iind oat how they stand, and tackle each other with arguments, and separate into croups, and have it out." Th9 illness ot the loreman of the jury has made it doubtful whether he could be retained in the jury room, but ho has made no appeal lr reiier. several otner ox me jurors bad been temporarily. ill. The stones about signals iromme juryroom re absurd. The loreman was seen to rub bis bead seven times, and forthwith it was heralded that this meant a demand for ?7,000. It would fee x as thovgh the incar cerated iurv occasionally sutiered iiom eanui. At one moment this afternoon I joined tbe crowd staring at the distant win dow of their room, ooivoneoi mem was visible, but as soon as the poor wre.ch discerned the familiar personality of this por tion ot the Cincinnati Commercial, ht sig nalled to the others, wno BUSHED FORWARD, and lovingh stared at me till I disappeared. At the hour of my leaving court to-night a large outside crowd was staring at the jury room. Tilton saye: "A disagreement in this case is justice enough for me, consider ing everything. Of course if Bsecher'a par tisans have manazed to carry the whole twelve lurors it will be a great outrage on me. but I don't think they can." Mrs Beecher did not make her appearance ab mt cjurt to-day, bui she would have veia on hand whenever notified that the Jury- was ready. She ., has been tufforing from the heart disease, to which sue is subject. We were enlivened, tula afternoon with a report that two of the jurors had tried to escape, but it turned out that the police were pursuing otner onena ers. After spending an hour about the court this afternoon I started out for Ply mouth Church, in whicb Beecher was then preaching. When I turned into the street whore that famous church Is located, I heard a trumpet peal, which I soon found to be the voice ol Beecher pouring through

tbe open doors and windows of his church. He was in the middle of bis sermon, and of course I could not get in, but I got where, looking through the front door, I coold see him away back on his platform. He was In superb form, appearing like a -young man In the first flush of power, just as he did at his discourse last Fridav evenlnor. Th

first sentence I caught was one in which he reasonably alluded to the sympathetic host ol celestial spirits by which mortals re encompassed. I staid only a few minutes, but his trumpet tones continued to pierce the air as I moved away. UNSURPASSED USHERS. WOXDROUS FEATS OF MURRAY AND CALDWELL SILF APPOINTED USHERS OF THE BROOKLYN COURT-ROOM THEIR TOINTS OF CONTRAST. The Ne w York Herald gives a funny sketch of two of the Plymouth brethren who have been acting as ushers during the trial: For over a hundred days, two men, named respectively Murray and Caldwell, have actdd as ushers in the court-room, seatine the ladies and tbe brethren and friends ot ltmouth burch. Mwrray is a well-to-do merchant in New York, and Caldwell is a speculator in paintings and ' engravings. aiurray is auapper sort or person with a blacu mustache, a fresh complexion and a quick manner. In order to exercise a sort of official authority as usher, he borrowed a aeputy saenn s snieid, which he wears on the front of his coat. Cald well is a tall, heavv man. with Barnslde pattern of mustache and whiskers, dresses well and talks to the la dies in a fatherly way. He wss verv atten tive to Bessie lurner while tbat blonde siren frequented tbe court room. He has more dignity than Murray but less Influence. Tbe latter accepts no fee nor reward; the former receives f 2 50 per day for his services from tho Plymouth brethren, who have raised a rnna to oeiray certain expenses of the trial These two men have become so expert in ushering people to places in the body of the court room, and finding seats for them, that their performances during the pressing daj s oi tne past weeK nave been positively mar vellous. The writer has seen the court room tilled, to all appearances, in every part as early as 10 o'clock in the morning, and. to his extreme astonishment, after the lapse of an hour, durlr-g which several hundred persons more entered and found room, a ions stream oi me Dremren have come in and A.m... - ' ' been comfortably seated by ! this surprising pair of USHERS. They conjure up chairs and camp fctools out of the very floor. They stow away peopla in soemicgly inaccessible places. No lady had to stand duricg all the past week while Murray and Caldwell were aro.und. To their credit, it mast us said, that they have worked hard and well, and ben the means of saving a great deal of conf asion, which inuRt have otherwise 5?pn if very visitor had toind a Feat for himself. Toe dexterity of these self-appointed uabers in handling chairs and camp stools is truly amazing. Caldwell has boen scGn to spin a camp stool over the head3 of people and land it in a vacant spot with unerring precision. To send a lady spinning after the camp stool would seem to be a feat equally ea?y to him. In the matter of arranging chairs they have grown wol -Jfrfuily proficient. "Dally at luncb time the cutting audience knock the cbaira a bo et until the floor appears to be in e perfect state of cha-'s. Presto! the astonisted stranger sees tho chain End camp stools fall into regular alignment like soldiers on parade. Caldwell gives a tin here and Murray a tip there to a few chairs and sen?- a sort of magnetic current through ali the reit and brings them into line in an Instanz. Their fame as ushers has gone abroad, and it Ib said tbat several offers hav bten made them by theatrical managers and pastors of popular cturcbesin NewYork. The managers of Round Lake camD meeting, of the Metropolitan, Bioth's Theater, Tony Pastor's Opera-house, Dr. Hall's church and Bishop Snow's tabernacle want Caldwell lor usher. Murray is better adapted for a theater, Caldwell for a church; the latter for escorting heavy weighted dowagers to the pews, tbe former for wafting With a wave of his band a bevy of smiling beaa ties into their Beats in the auditorium; Caldwell for camp-stools, Murray for chairs; the former for elder solid women of roomy dimensions, the . latter for festive and slender innoeence of sweet sixieen; the one for SOLEMN AND ORTHODOX RESPECTABILITY, theoth6r for gay and mercurial Irregularity; Caldwell for roast beef and plum pudding. Murray for ice cream and strawberries. The habit of handling chairs constantly and showing people to places in the court room lor over a hundred days has so far grown on the pair cf ' ushers as to lead them uncon sciously into several ludicrous mistakes. In crofesing the ferry to ew York 'the ether day, Caldwell fsrg'V. where he was and im agined be was still ;n tue court room. Ladies were standing ur in the fear of the boat. when Caldweli iutnpfid to bis feet and cried. "This, way, ladies," lea.iicg forward to tne front a long string of females, notieof whom eventfcen, to the inexpressible anguish of poor Caldwell, were accommodated with a seat, for the boat was crowded. In the cars he has frequnntly for?ottBii hiuiselt.aod given orcers lor tne pa-sengPrs to sit closer. He has been known to stait on altractedlv from borne with a chair in his hand, and wherever be gors he is constantly KnocKiug cnairs tiDOuU n i su pposed he will g into the chair-makiag btioiness when the trial is over. He can do almost anything with a chair balance 1: on the end of bis nose or twist it info k c imp-stool Murray is even more efflicted wi;n tbe chair omauia. He sleeps on chairs and cam? stools. Ui3 future coatot aims will bei chair rampant, aud when the trial is over he intends to buy all the chairs that the Flym outh brethren have sat upon, and make presents of them to hi friends. The one upon which the portly form of the Plymouth pastor rested will be presented by Murray to the Smithsonian Institution. Other distinguished chairs, such as tho one in which Evarts reclined when be smiled sarcastically at Beach, and tbe one into which Porter dropped after he hurled tbe accusation ot falsehood at the plaintiff's pleade r, will be rafllöd for in aid of a home for indigent lawyers. , Here let me observe that death from lightning must be painless. ..The nerves of the humau body do not convey a sensation ci pain instantly to the nerve centers. Tfcere U anappreeiable Interval before wo are cog nizant ot what, has happened. Tbe time of an electric flash is a small fraction ot this in terval. While tha velocity of a nervous sensation oi pain is less than a hundred feet a second, that of electricity, varving under different circumstances, is many thousand times greater, vve are Killed before we know it. Yet there is probably a greater oreaa oi aeatu irom tuts cause than from almost any oth6r. Prof. John Trowbridge en "Lightning and Llghtrjing Rods,'' in tho f July Atlantic." -

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A MICHIGAN MTJItrj 3 OUT ER. PUTTING A WITNESS OF THE WAY. THB MURDRB OF WILLIS POUND, OF HOLLAND CITY, MICH. SOME TRAIN WRECKERS DID ITHIDING THE OLD VICTIM'S BODY EVIDENCE OF A WITNESS. The Grand Rapids Eagle thus tells the story of the murder of old WilliB Pound which has created great excitement in the locality where it occurred: Mr. Willis Pound was an old bachelor about 50 years old. living alone on his farm of 40 acres, fpur miles north of Holland City. He was an eccentric man, very much disposed to attend strictly to his own afiaira. and to have other people do likewise. He had resided on his place lor several years, having originally come to this locality from Branch county, in this state, where he is taid to have friends livine. Pound was an important witness for the people in the case against John H. Fuller and Melvin Fuller for throwing a train from the track on tbe Michigan Lake Shore railroad in the pprir.g of 1874. At the examination of these fiarties, which took place last winter, Pound estiüed very unwillingly, but it was known tbat when the case came up for trial be would make a strong case agaict tbe pris oners. In tbe meanwhile the two Fullers. father and son, were out on bail. Thev had made several attempts to hire wltLeses against them to fail to appear at the trial, anditw. supposed that Pound had been approached in a like maimer. Tbe Fullers had hinted at their intention oi punishing anyone that should appear against them, but these threats were rut considered of any consequence. Pound hiso was reported to be well supplied with money, and among his peculiarities is said to have car ried it about his rerson, sometimes having several thousand dollars , in his . pockets. This money was also an incentive for his murder. Directly opposite Pound's cabin lived John H. Poller and his son Melvin. iney naa resided on ineir rarm oi iw acres for about three years, having come to this place from Wisconsin. They brougtt some money here, and on their 'arrival at once began work in the woodo, and at tbe present time have HO or 40 acres of clearing. with good buildings, an orchard, aud every indication that they intended to make good farmers. Those parties are the minderer of Found. J. hey appear to have well merited their reputation of being A " HARD LOT." But a short time after their arrival hero they began to be frequent visitors at our Justices' courts, but, as tbe matters in which they were involved were mainly civil suits, with one or two assault and battery cases, their reputations were cot much worse than that ot any others in the North woods. Last summer, however, the wife of Melvin Faller was found lying in the bouse with a bullet in her bead. Tho young man, her husband, disappearaI for a short time, but eoon re turcei. It was surrosed at the time that she had been shot by her husband, but as she recovered, the matter was explained by statements to me enecc met she wm a re ligious enthusiast, and had put the pistol to her bead while temporarily m?ace. Alter this thev were clcsoly watched . by their neighbor?, who soon became aware of facts that mads them fear to meet these, neighbors alter dark. The passenger train on the Michigan Lake Shore railroad was thrown from mo, track one morning in tbe spring of 1S74, by means of a displaced rail, which had been hid from slzht by means of a little brush thrown on the track. No one wag injured, but the en eine and cars were badly damaged, anduoth ing but a miracle saved tue lives of the pas senders. No arrests were madu until last winter, when our ciiiz3ns were suddenly surprised by the arrest of a man ' by the name of Flagg, for throwing the train from tbe track, upou tbe complaint of the two Fullers. He at once retorted Dy furmsumg the railroad company with evidence that caustd the two worthy farmers to be cared for by the therm. isince this dimculty the wi.'o of the younger t uller became insane, and was taken to Kalamazoo, and the wife ot John H. Fuller died verv suddenly. As was mentioned in the Eagle, Wiliis Pound disappeared from home on June 5, For a few days nothing was thought of this fact bv bis neighbors, as he had on previous occasions gone off for a time without giving bis neighbors notice. Ihe appearance of things about his bouse, however, eoon at trccted the attention of some of his triend, who burst open tbe door end looked about for some explanation of his whereabouts. Everything was found in a condition indi cating an immediate return home. Then certain parties began to suspect that POUND HAD BEEN MURDERED, and uespite the sneers or persons who were pleased to call them very foolish, they be gan to search for the missing man. Sharifl Wolt man came down hereon Monday last and, with his usual energy, at once commenced to clear up the mystery. Very little was discovered to work upon except a rumor that Pound hsd goneout fisbinz with the two Fullers. Searching the bouse, Pound's fishing line was gone. This was one of the dead man's treasure?, and well illustrates his eccantricities, being a line 500 feet long, havirjg 200 hoots attached to it. Then the rumor about the fishing party was investigated, and notwithstanding the fnct tbat it nad been stoutly denied by the defendants and laughed at by others, there was found to bo some truth n the matter. At this moment the community was astonished- by the news that the man Watson bad confessed that the Fullers bad killed Pound and bid bis bodv In the Black lake. Tho prose cuting attorney, the sheriff and a party of men accompauiea watson to li&e bay, where r stream called Pine creek empties it self into Black lake. Hero, tied to a fetake that bad bsen driven into the mud at the mouth of the creek, tbey found Willis Pound. The body was Daily decomposed and stripped entirely naked, being tied to thestake byapieceof the dead man's fishing line. The spot caosen was an unfrequented one, but fishing parties often ran up into tbe bay, and u is strange teat tbe body had not been discovered previously. Tying a line to the remains, the party retnrned to the city, being obliged to tow the body 100 feet behind the boat, it was put into a box, after caving been viewed by the coroner and a Jury,' and buried last right, Tbe dead man's features, were Uecom posed beyoud recognition, but the marks of a blow upon the felt tempi a horrible gsh in the side, made by an ax, and f.n ether cut in the back, were viaible. The Fullers had left home a few days ago, but the old man returned yesterday, and tbe villain was captued last night at bis bouse, He msde no resistance, and appeared to think bis case was hoptdes. For a fsw days past be has been endeavoring to dispose of his firm, preparatory to leaving the scene of the murder, and he would - undoubtedly have been miles away in a fchort time. His son has not yet been captured, but bis whereabouts are known, and he will undoubtedly be caught. He Is a young man, light complexion, and sports much jewelry, also having a country air about him, and Is continually playing checkers. THE INQUEST Xk placa June 24, and the details brought 1 ont were ghastly In the extreme. The man

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mJT'iS" o the fact of rauruerana cave the lnfnrm.ru- .i.:; Jt0 fWd flr.tS.'s: ?K. LH 1Iai?ds hvft Wed there two or Hm?.2' ?new Wllli3 pou" n h tlme; was also acquainted ith rh ir Fuller and Melvin c. Vnii... S Vr TrdiVtfl 5tb r,f0re:r.n that day John H. Fuller said Kbitch -up tbe team rwi . o clock in the morning, he said: 'You drive up to tfeat litM V. .-. XTT where Mr. Pound liven, stop there, and I wulpoerd getPmind to o fishing with L-'nJ 1fTe up the road and wailed for luunc"; it was before the train came br ?SS iwiÄV lUeT Cme b2ck "?id! Pound will be herescon, and then you and he go down to Pine creek bay.' He was going to Holland, but would meet us at AUeiVin KGllPr tM.A Ha -nnM and get a boat and mft na of t,- V. Melvin told his father in -rr k,, ,1 .v. Tu?Tiduhel0le' lfcat he meet na there with a boni. Pmm .-i t with the fcors6s and wanon ti,. -. . spear and seme lints that Pound put into nox, also a gun and an ax; I had some fish line in m-w . brought a little bair. I did nnt t r Kot -.. W lt: Whcn wo reached the creek we hitched mr. L.ures near me crcfik anrt mat fatH r? Fuller there: he said he ha. a kn.t t.,5 and I fished off from the dock, and Melvl n uilftr did the s,ame. The old man f John H. t uller) came down about an hour atterward...lelviu asked Pound to go cut fishing with him in the boat: Ponnd aai.i h they went off together, returning after a w 9 old man Btaid the dock with me. They staid awhilft ar.o then they went out fishing In the boat, takle the ax and the long-handled speer with them in tbe boat. . The old man Fuller said, ' We don't have anv lack fishing on the -.r " ui ij go oat in ooat with them. I said -No. three are snonfrh for that little boat. It was near snndown when tbey started: the old man TYiiiar nnt the ax in the boat. Thev rinnthAhnv HU they got out of sh?ht hMnrt th I think they were GONE OVER AX HOUR, It was almost dark when they got back. When I saw the boat coming back, I noticed that there were but two men in it. When they camo near, I asked, 'Where Is Mr. Pound?' They both said. 'We have cot him where we want him." Tbe old man Fuller said. 'There is one thins I'll trll von. It you ever lisp a word about this, I'll shoot you iney made me promise not to tslL Then Bays the young man, 'Father, I'll start lor home on tbe Lake Shore so that I can be a witness lor you.' I recollect now tbat they said about Pound, 'We have got him where we want bim, and we guess he won't ap pear as a witness against us at tbe trial If we have got to go to Jcckson, we may aa woil go lor an old sheep as a lamb.' The two Fullers took tho thirars cut of the beat except the axe. I took the ax out of the boat, I did not see the spear after they came back. . I threw the ax into the wagon and took it homo I noticed some water in the boat. When we get started, cid man Fuller t-aid he haü him fctaked down in the mud.' I asked him where he put him. He said, 'Near the mouth of Pine creek in the ! mud. and grass. I sxaked him dorrn good. and pulled some mud and crass over tbe stake.' I aid, 'That's a serious thing for a tuan to do.' 'Ye? ' he said, 'but I had to do it or go to Jackson.' Then he said again tbat tacy would shoot me if I said a word about it. I aid, "Did you get anything? He sn'a, 'Yes, I got enough to pay ex penses, or to pay for my trouble.' Las: Saturday Melvin C. Fuller showed me a pistol and said he would shoot me if I ever opened my head about it. I brought the old man Fuller into town last week, Monday. He told me he had borrowed that gun (referring to a loaded In gun court) to shoot PouRd with, if he came around his house, and had it loadd to shoot me with if I said anything about the affair. l asked mm what ne did with Ponnd's clothes. He replied, We chucked them in tbe mud.' Fuller did not tell me how they killed him. I was present yesterdar when the body was found, lt was near the mouth of PiDe creek in a little cove. Mr. Adsit prosecuting attorney) and I were standing up m the boat looking around for it. Mr. Adsit gaid, 'There it is I guees: Bee the flies!' I think Mr. Adslt took the boat book and hauled the sod and weeds off. and tberelay the body." A VETERAN FI FE Ii. WHO FCEMSUED MARTIAL MUSIC FOR " EARLY SIXTY YEARS. The following feketch is furnished by the Boston Transcr'pt: "Si" Smith, the veteran fifer, who has just died, was born at Lexington, the birthplace oi his father, who wasin tha Lexington fight, followed the British to Concord and took two guns from them. Josiah began playing tbe fife for companies when only nine years old, and with a stock ot three tunes which he had mastered. He has continued in the service 77 years. The war of 1S12 found him a member of tbe Lexington Bide Rar B3rs. and toward its close, on a lequisi--tion made which included a fifer, he went to forts Independence and Warren, serving nis term oi tnree montns. in 1822 Mr. Smith waa appointed ma? ter of the band of the brst bngrade, third division, of the Massachusetts militia, and also plaved the fifd in Kendall's brass band. WhenLalav-e-te visited this ccuntiy in 1824, Mr. Smith played lor ail the escorting companies in this vicinity, and did a similar service when President Jackson visited the North in The same year he accompanied the Boston Fusileers to Mount Vernon. In 1814. when in New York with the New England Guarda. he was presented with a solid silver pöblet, the handle of which Is & miniature fife. It bears the inscription, "Presented to Josiah Smith by the New York Guards, 1844." In 18G1 Mr. Smith was attached to a recruiting sqaad, stationed oa Bot-ton Common, which made two tramps a day through the city, beating up recruits for the -war. This duty over, ne entered Colonal Stevenson's regiment, formerly tbe New England Guards, of which he was for 50 years a membar. Subsequently he went to camp at Keadvllle, and played for Colonol Loe's regiment till it left tcr the South, and thus ended hia wan buslnets" For nearly sixty years Mr. Smith has played at the annual parade of tho Ancient and Honorable Artillery. According to the reaulations he was en tilled to add' a stripe for every five veara of service. His' military coat eioeve ia now deooraced with 15 of these testimonials, reoreeuticg ,o jears vi service. M.r. am.tu lormeriy arr eu ou farming and t botinakir.c in L;s native towu, bui fcioce oipoä:ngof Li) farm he hastuaae U'aiiliain hi3 Loir.e, it Icing the honlo of hi3 cliiidrea. On the day ol the Buuher Hill centsnnial Mr. Smith filed lor the I Ancient and Honorables from their armory to Beacon street, but be was not strong enough to paiticip&te in the general, parade. George W. Peinberton, the murderer of Mrsl Margaret E. Binsham, near Boston. has bsen bactenced to ba hanged. '