Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1875 — Page 6

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TWILIGHT AND BEA. HV M. I, W. 8. From Appleton Journal. I. Remember how the twlllfcht flung A curtain over thee and me, An. wandering band In band, we sun? Bei" da the summer tea. What If some g) Utering mermaid laid Down on the and a listening ear. And. liae a treacherous woman, mala cur teader ta'.k to hear! "What If, la save of ocean deep. Hhe treanar jd up each precious word, Tbiaktng that earthly lovers Keep The vows that she has beard! Perhaps the sorrowing mermaid's tears With pesrl those vows Increased o er. And ccctn, vrhu LU wrath uprears. May ca-st thera on the shore! There memory and I will roam Where tickle waters klw the land. Watching he bright and dancing foam That dashes o'er to a sand ; And I will soek and bind the pearls, a fancied necklace, rich and rare ( Whi e thought In every cluster earls) About my neck to wear. What though those days were short and few . .oi. ul q 1 1 nmA tn me? V II 1 CI CflBAU - Each nmmer shall betroth anew Tue twilight and the sea! ABOUT WOMEN. F.verv husband thinks that he can tame shrew rent the Door fellow that has her "Unmanned by the loss ot her husband,' u the latest f.tvle of indicating' a widow's - - grief. The "Utica skirt" la the latest. It con tracts the waking powe ' th pent-rjp wearer. An Illinois woman, who bad walked ten miles to Gf e her husband hung, appeared to bs much affected by the spectacle. The mieht that slumbers ia a maiden's arm is often a prophecy of some of ths mos striking experiences of married me. The report that the Princess of Wales was "loosing her hearing" was only a cockney perversion. She lost an earing. Herald Miss Helen M. Elv aDDears as the first girl graduate of Minnesota University with th anomalous degree ci -uacneior Ans." A Boston paper says manufacturers have commenced to make band-boxea . .even feet high In preparation for the coming bonnet. . "Hilf the gross receipts" is said to be Anna D'ckinson'a claim when sh9 lectures for the advancement of women or for benevolent purposes. If you want to get around a Boston girl tell her you understand ter grandfather was killed at Hunker ULI. She will neither " despise the lio uur hate the liar. We are asked, "What could have luduced ladies to adoDt the 'oull-back' style of dress?" Can't say, unless it was to promote a taste for anatomical studies. In the trousseau of M'lle Say, lust mar Tied to the Prince da Broglie, there were thirty eompleie costumes, and camel's hair shawl enough to malte a rain do w. Betbsbeba was not a bad woman at heart but sometimes she quarreled with Uriah and he submitted to punishment very meekly for a man who was allit-tiie. A correspondent says the Crown Princess of Germany looked like "a snow drop just burst into fuli beautv." which, of a wouiin it, fair, and forty, is a highly imainativa and florid description. "There!" exclaims the indignant Boston wife, as she fetches her husband a resonant wback on the head with a chair rocker, Til raise a Bunker Hill monument on you that you'll remember." A Nebraska woman has papered her cabin with the report of the Baecher trial; and now she makes washing-day shorter, and causes time to fly while at her Knitting, by perusing the cheerful pages on the wall. The Centennial commissioners, desiring to say a word occasionally at the Exposition, are encouraging the Philadclpnia ladies to erect a building: at some distance lrom the main part, exclusively for their own use. A schoolmaster attempted to flog a Ra cine girl the other day, bnt she just ripped of! half a dozen ribs of her hoop skirt, and slashed him around until he couldn't spell Constantinople if he had to ba bung fur it. Misj Selma Borg, the translator of lime. Schwarz's novels, has gone home to Fin land, to lecture on the Centennial and eu deavor to rouse thi province to a desire to be rjpnsantei in some independent way, Young wcmen looking up picnic costumes should try to find something that will look sweetly artless ai.d won't wrinkle. A wo man returning lrom one of those expedi tiona is the ugliest creature known to civili zation. The Shah of Persia has expended 300,000 lately in "marrying off" one of hi dau.gh ters. To prsvent too great an emigration of cur voung men to that country, it may be well enough to state that sho was a pet child, and that thi Shah will not give any tbing to have the rest mated. Prayer is said to be "the soul's sincere de aire," and the following petition certainly seems to be marked by a genuine feminine sincerity: Give me a thankful heart. And to that end arrange That I the means may have To lead when fashions change. Anna Dickinson refuses to reconsider her determinationäo go upon the Btage. Friends have attempted to shake her resolution by presents cf smelling bettle, toilette pow der, French hair oil, crimping irons and freckle washe. but her teirt ia set noon biotriooic ftme and she is bound to j;o it. Washington society is stirred to its depths because the Japanese minister's wife has a little margin of exquisite native eaibroidery about one of her dresses that can not ba duplicated fir money. She can not understand the bitter words spoken by the otSer ladies, but she sees their envy In their looks and i made just as happy. Miss I. Starr has given in "Hardly! Earned" the picture of a poor daily gov erness returning to her miserable lodging and fallioz asleep on a chair before she has even removed her walking attire. It is one t.t the finest pictures in the Academy. The coloring is harmonious, and the idea carried out with studied moderation, pathetic, yet without exaggerated sentiment. The Rev. Olympia B:owr,wbo is the pastor of a church at Bridgeport, Conn., has a husband, and you would naturally suppose thai bis naoid is Browv, but it isn't, tor if it 1 B -own.be U afraid to say so.and calls hlmrf Willi.. When S'.sttr Brown and Brother vuiina crut to the ca'es cf paradise and at tempt to go in as wife and husband, it is to . i .u t urlll ful-A mora H rnfi fnr Kofararl that It will take more time lor them to explain things to the satisfaction of St Peter than the hurry of business will permit him to give them. Louisville Courier-Journal. Amelia, rx-queen of Greece, who died at Munich a frtort time ago in her fifty-seventh .year, was married when but eighteen, to

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-LLiOtho I., of Greece. She was the danghter of Paul Frederick Augustus. Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and early conceived a strong enthusiasm for Greece. While yet a school girl, when told that Otho bad been elected king, she exclaimed, ''How I should like to be his queen!'' She was a woman of f nergy and Intelligence, and if her husband bad possessed more ol her pluck he would not have been driven from Greece in 1SG2. A male convict at Cayenne obtained permission to marry a female convict; but as the man was a widower the governor declared It was necessary first to obtain the certificate of the death of his first wife. A communication was addressed to the authorities, but without any reply. The convict insisting that the cermony should no bnger be delayed, the governor said, "But what is there to prove that your first wife is dead?" . The reply of the convict was tolerably satisfactory on this point: "Why," he said, "I'm here for having assassinated her." Mr. James Campbell, the chief steward at Vassar College, says that the young ladies at the college are given to eating confectionary between meals, and considers that the use of candles in that manner is certainly hurtful to them, but the appetite tor it seems to be fixed, and therefore he attempts to meet the situation by putting fine candies upon the table. Candy-eating by girls between meals is, In h's opinion, fully as bad a habit as cigar-smoking by young men. The extravagance of it is also to be dplored. One lady pupil In the college ues it to an extreme, and not long ago sho had a package .of candy sent to her from New York, the bill for "which amounted to $40. If one young lady hands it around freely, another thinks she mast, too, and ttisn there is no edd to the outlay or nuney for it. TIIU YELLOW NUGGETS. niOOINO FOR GOLD I? THK BLACK HILLS RICH REWARDS HINTS OF A CUT AND PRIED OFFICIAL REPORT. A member ot the Black Ullis party, u oder date of the ISih, writes to the Chicago Tribune: Col. Dodge and staff, with the scientific party, escorted by companies C audi of the second cavalry, and couipaoy II of the third cavalry, left Camp Jenny on the 9th inst., and arrived here on the 15th inst. In reaching this point, the coaimand has described the northern bailor jim ar cumference of a circle, over rouzh and rocky country, cut un oy numerous ravines and tangled un derbrush. On the 11th, a snow-storm baffled all efforts to proceed. Alter crossing the main divide, numerous streams were found, all trending eastward. - At the first stream pros nect ins; was begun, and gold was found The greatest excitement prevailed, and ui6u and teamsters all indulged in the lucrative amusement of scratching and washing gravel. Every stream that was crossed was prospected, but, as the halts were short, it was impossible to determine what could be found below two or three feet. At every halting place gold In some quantity was found. It is useless to go over the ground described by Gen. Custer lat year, r Jorai vaney ana tne pars are oeau tiful. though the descriptions heretofore published are liable to give erroneous im fresslona as to their extent. They are not arge, aud no one need expect to come into them and build cities unless the mining in terests of the hill pan out fully as well as we now expect. Having arrived here, it will be well to state that we are but a short distance from Ilarnev's Peak at llarnev City Here we find over a bundled miners hard at work, washing out gold on the banks ot Frenchman's Fork. They are now not only panning out gold, but are digging ditches and preparing sluices. They said, when they saw the troops first: "You may take us away, but we will come back; for notning but death or prison walls will keep us out of here." They washed out several pansful for the inspection of the officers visiting them: and in every instanca from 7 to 2 grains of gold were obtained. Capt. Spauldins took up a pan, and, witb dirt that bad been thrown out of a shallow pit as surface dirt, washed out fonr pans and weighed the result. It proved to be 27Ü cents in gold. lie bad never handled a pan before. In oae well-authenticated instance, 37 cents was washed out of one panful ot .dirt. Now, these are no unreliable statements, it is THS FLAIN, UNTARNISHED TRUTH. The miners say they will make from $5 to 5100 per day as soon as their sluice is in working order; now. they average from 7 to 13 cents to the pan. Every one has either seen gold washed out or done the work himself. The commanding omcer has seen it: all of his officers have seen it; the scientific party have seen it; and tll the men and teamsters have seen i. Now, lest we should have so unanimous a tuing of it, we will hear a dissenting voice.. You will hear it quite soon, l tmuK, lor it id no secret that fur some inscrutable reason the report of the expedition is cut and dried. and was before the expedition started. Let this be as it may, there are a large number of men with this expedition who are compe tent judges of mining in all Its phases, and not only fudges but practical workers them selves. Besides all this, we see them dam onstrate it every day, and the soldiers are doing the same, flow much of this mining land is there? I do not know, and it is the put To urpose of this expedition to determine, draw a line as a base, let me say that from what l have 866n(and I have , more than casually ob served), any hard working man can wash out So per day. Let ma not be understood as saying that he would do so, for very tew men wouia do saissnea witn aomz wen wbea they could be wasting their time pros pecting for richer diggings. Still he xuteat do much better, how much b3tter would depend a great deal on his luck and muscle, Tee miners who are here are not the rough and scum element driven out ot the border towns, but they are intelligent and sobur men, who have entered into this enterprise much as they would any other business en terprise to win. Wuat U going to be done about it? A public sentiment true to itself will decide the question. There is an abundance cf pine timber in this immediate vicinity, and the best of water, lne grass is now a foot hieb, and the flowers are blooming on every side. Col. Dodge has no instructions to drive the miners out or tne mils, t na be no doubt rejoices thai this is not his disa greeable duty. Many quartz lodes have been taken, and gold has been unmlstaka bly taken out ot the rock. Of silver I know nothing. As soon as things settle down so that it can be made accurate, I will send you a map of this mining district as it actually exists, and not as many of tnose thai are the creations of heated imaginations. Mr. Anderson's Penikeee Island seems to be a white elephant ol the moti pro nounced character. The . natural history school. on that . island, it seems to De settieu, must soon ue closed, the location of the school rendering . A 1 A. ' - it so expensive that for the same money a school might be conducted any where else. Mr. Alexander Agassiz says mat a summer school, limited to a few of the best students in natural history, connected wun tne coieee. will probably be established next year (1376); but he does not think that a school of the present scope or i-eniKese can do run, unless very largely endowed. The trustees are already too far In debt to feel that they can go on with it as matters sow stand.

INDTANÄ SMTlB TSENTINEL; THURSDAY JULY

TO BELINDA JANE. From the London Society. We walked In pleasant spots, and thou Wast loving to me of thy wont; We once thought love would last, but now We donl. Onr love wa wide as skies above. For lovers ne'er can love by halves; Our love was litest to the love Of calves. That day was wee' ah I not like this Yea, sweeter than the fabled honey: The one sad thought that spoiled onr bliss . Was money. We thought thereon, onr harta grew sad, Our fates we vainly execrated ; O time, that changed all, I'm glad 1 waited. For now, Belinda Jane, I'm bald, And thou'rt an aged maiden lady; Thine age that side ot fifty called The 6hady. Yet once a?a'n well play onr parts. While Joy dispels oblivious mist; And we will tee each other's hearts At whist. OPIUM AND ITS EATERS. TOE GROWTH OF THE VICE. CULTIVATION OP THE POPPY SUPDEN START GIVEN THE VICE ABOUT 1840 A SUBSTITUTE TOR LIQUORS TESTIMONY OP PEOPLE OF EXPERIENCE. The New York Sun draws this terrible picture of the growth of the habit of opium eating in America: One hundred thousand victims of the otium habit In the United States! Such is a moderate estima of the number who are hell in the clutches of this terrible passion. And yet it is probable that the number of the wretched slaves of this rapidly increasing vice is larger than the figures civen would indicate, ine dmm of the calculation is the amount of opium reported In the custom house returns, and which reorfsents the importations of the drug at New York, principally. But there is a large amount obtained from other sources, and the cultivation ol the poppy on onr own soil to supply the constantly grow ing demand for the stimulant may well be regarded with alarm. As appears from the information given in another1 part of this article, - the plant is cultivated not only . in the warmer . latitudes of the United' State? , as in Arizona and California, but in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont. The profit derived from the cultivation of the poppy is so large that with the increase of the habit of opium eating there is certain to bo a correspondln .increase in the area ot laud devoted to the production of the plant. When it is understood that during the last five years there has been an Increase of from fifty to seventy-five percent, in the . NUMBER OF OPIUM EATERS throughout the country, apprehensions iniy well be entertained of the impuhe which such increase is certain to give, not only to importations of the drug, but tDits cultivation in this country. If wno means are taken to arrest the rapid progress of the evil, we may eventually expect to see the poppy occupy the position of a lormldabla rival to the tobacco plant. It is particularly deserving of notice that the increase in the consumption of opium as a stimulant be gan aoout the year 1840, when the agitation for prohibitory legislation against the liquor traffic was under run neaaway. several s'ates were convulsed by the movement, and fierce controversy was waged between the pros and the cons. The disintegration of parties was threatened, and in more than one state gubernatorial candidates were elected on this single issue. Before this crusade against alcoholic beverages, the use of opium, except as a medicine, was almost wholly unknown. A few cases In the large cities might have been found; but when the war against the popular stimulants was waged so fiercely it led to the Introduction of a substitute more Insidious and ruinous in its effects upon both the mental and the physical organization. Before this date, that is in 1840, opium was entirely free from duty. No sooner, however, had a tax been Imrx)sedon its importation than, con trary to all expectations, the amount received at New York and other ports gradually and steadily increased year after year until it has now reached the annual supply ot 200 tons. The quantity consumed for medicinal purposes has kept steady and regular pace with the growth of population. while the INCREASE IS THE USE OF CP1UM as a stimulant ia immensely in excrsa thereof. There is hardly a IUago th.it has not one or mors opium eaters, and ia the large cities they are counted by hundreds and thousands. An estimate cf the number in the whole country fixes it at one hundreJ thousand, aud this is probably rather under than over the actual figures. The nse of opium has grown ho alarmingly rrevHlnt that It has been made a matter of serious consideration bv more than one health board with the view of arresting the progress ot t he evil and providing a remedy. Dr. ilw ditcb, of the Massachusetts State, Sanitary Inspection, sv v that throughout the od Bay state, in the towns and villages, opium eating has, accordiugto the reports obtained lrom a great many localities, largely ' in creased, in the town of Worcester one druzgist reports that opium is usd to an alarming extent. From apothecaries in Chicopee comes the admission that tbey have a great many customers," ana the sigotncant reoort is made by Boston druggists that "the sales of preparations of opium to tne country trade are out ot all proportion to those of other drugs." Of course all who are addicted to the use of this potest 6timulant do not indulge lo thsame exces. Da Qulncy, whose name Is in separably connected with opium, consumed 32.) grains daily, which is equivalent to about thirty-two ot pare morphine. Ahe aos3 vi ries according to the capacity or inclination of the person, one taking one ounce of laudanum, anotuer nine ouLces weekly, and still another two ounces moothly. It is told of a merchant in this city teat be took three wine glasses of the liuuid form daily. And Dr. Bo wd itch says he was told by a Boston drug gist of a habitual customer who was in the habit of buying A DRACHM ATA TIME, one half of which he took on the spot, and, having disposed of the remainder on the following day, called for a draught contain ing an ounce and a half each of laudanum and brandy. No apparent effect followed this enormous dose. The great increase In the consumption of opium has given an Im pulse to its production at borne, making it probable that Turkey and India may ytt nave a rival In this country. It appears, from the statement of Mr. S. Dna Hayes, one ot the state assayera or aiassachuaetts, . that the home production increases every year. In fact, we are told that opium is now tnaae from white pople, cultivated for the purpose in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Con necticut, the annual production belog estimated by hundreds ot pounds, and this sup ply is generally absorbed in the towns in which It is raised. Florida and Louisiana have also contributed their share, and Cali fornia and Arizona are large producers. It is said that the yield in Arizona is twelve hundred pounds to every ten acres. At seven or eight dollars a pound for the crude , gum, this is a paving business. The native I opium, it is true, ia not equal to that im ported, but otx proverbial ingenuity will in '

time overcome this difficulty, and there Is no doubt that ere long we shall be able to compete successfully with the Asiatic producers. Our domestic drug consists of the Juice expressed from the whole plant, including the stems, leaves and flowers instead ot the exuded sap obtained by scarifying the capsules. The opium thus obtained is sold in the form of pellets, but i' is said to be wanting in morphia. It is also seid in a semiliquid s ate like molasses. The prospect is a promising one for the production of NATIVE OPIUM, if we may fudge by the extent of the consumption of the article. That produced in Arizona and California, together with the interior foreign drug, finds its way to Philadelphia, where It is manufactured in the various forms known to the materia medica and aold to go all over the country. It would be well if opium were confined exclusively to the forms In which it is generally known, but unfortunately it is not, and herein lies the great danger.

under tne treacherous culse ol soothing syrups, elixirs, heating tincture, pain killers, nervous antidotes, and a long list of nostrums, It creates a morbid ap petite that by frequent indulgence almost inevitably ends in a confirmed habit. The insidious drug is sometimes concealed in the form of pills, and frequently enters into the composition of alcoholic liquors. Still worse, it is prescribed by charlatans as remedy for the cure of persons who' are ad dicted to opium eating. Then ia no means of ascertaining the quantity of such nostrums disposed of yearly, and the extent to whicn opium is employed In their manu facture can only be conjectured. The fact that there are so-called remedies for the correction or cure of the habit affords a significant proof of the extent to wbich it prevails. One "remedy" lor the eradication of this disease consisted of a clear solution of sulphate of morphia, ol oredand sweetened, the better to deceive. No definite directions as to quantity were given, but 'a dose," containing a boat two grains of sulphate of morphia, was to be ta ken three times a day, "if necessary," by tne patient, " when su tiering from depression and other symptoms." The substitution ol opium for other stimulants is a well cstab lished fact in the history of the temperance movement not only in this country but in England, and particularly in Turkey, wnich anords a peculiarly forcible lllustra tiou. Morewood, who is regarded as a trustworthy authority on the subject, says in his History of Inebriating Liquors, that "the general use of opium and other 6xhilerating substances may date its onein lrom THE .MANDATE OF THK PROPHET forbidding wine." It is very certain that so long as man will use stimulants the re moval of any one particular form will inev itably be followed by the adoption of another. The recognition of this fact generally would, if acted upon, save a great deal of misdirected effort on the part of social reformers, and do more to promote the cause of temperance than all the legislation and agitation of the last fifty years, Owing to the odium attaching to the sale of opium for other than legitimate medicinal uses, precise data can not be obtained. From some apothecaties and druggiscs very meager information was procured, and . from others no replies were received. A physician said that he had talked with several of the' most inteligont apothecaries, who told him that "the use of opium has greatly increased, especially among women." The reason given was that doctors were prescribing it more generally to their patients, and that thus the habit' was acquired. "Alcoholic stimulants being prohibited, many have resorted to the use of opium." Another physician stated his beliel that the use of opium in Its various preparations is increasing among the people as a stimulant, and that it is now being consumed In this way to an alarming extent. "I believe thU to be due," he adds, "largely to the unpopularity and restricted use of alcoholic stimulants." In one case the physician expresses bis opinion that the increased consumption of opium in this particular "is in some degree attributable to the excitements, suffering, and mental disquietude resulting from the late war." "I have six habitual customers," frankly confesses an apothecary, "They eaen tage a aose or opium or morphine be iore commencing daily business." As one or the marked features of the habit te noticed a decided tendency to kleptomania among customers of this class. In fact, the 1SV pernicious innuence oi a persistent in dulgence in the habit upon the moral facul ties is beyond all question. Not only is the force of the will seriously impaired, if net altogether destroyed, but the higher sensi bilities are almost wholly obliterated. -This is shown particularly in an utter disregard for truth, and the otbr nobler attributes of human nature, all of which are more or lesa affected by this subtle and insidious stimu lant. In fact, the habitual opium eater can not be trusted upon matters in which his veracity is involved, and in some instances it iuuta!e to leave valuable articles within his reach. THE BEECUER BUSINESS. . CHRONOLOGY OF THE CASK. November, 1S72. The first publication cf the Wcodhull story. May, 1873. The tripartite covenant first br.uiK&t to light. June, 1S73. Beecber's denial in the Brook lyn Eagle. October, 1673. Tilton dropped from the rolls of Plymouth Church. March, 1874. Congregational Council dis approved of Tilton's dismissal. June, 1874. Tilton's first public charge letter to Bacon. July 13. 1S74. Organization of the Ply mouth investigating committee. Jnly20.1874. Tilton's first statement to the committe. July 22, 1874. Beecber's statement in do nial and explanation. July 24, 1S74. Mrs. Tilton's statement sustaining Bercher. July 28, 1874. Tilton's arrest at the instigation of Gavnor. Aunust 4, 1874. Tilton's withdrawal from the Plymouth Court. Augu-t 14, 1874 Beecaer's second fctateme st. August 20, 1S74. against Boucher. Auiust22, 1374. Suit instituted by Tilton First statement of Franeis D. Mouiton. September 12, 1874. Francis D. Mouiton. September 18, 1874. Second statement of Second statement of Theodore Tilton. October 3, 1874. Tilton Indicted for libel. November 19, 1874. Bill of particulars denied. December 11, 1874. Order granted for bill of particulars. Dacember 29, 1874. Order for bill of particulars reversed. January 4, 1875. Ci'y Court. January 11, 1875. Case called In Brooklyn Opening for plaintiff by Tilton took the witness Judge Morris. February 1, lS7o. stand. February 24, 1875. Tracy opened for the delendar-t. April 1, 1S75. Beecber took the stand. May 19, 1875. Porter.began summing up for tbe defendant. June 8, 1S75. Evarts closed far the de fendant. Tuna Q 1QT ' -v r Karrfln o rrx m vr i rt v AJ9avu M&au ouuiuiiu u j aintlfT. June 23, 1875. Beach closed for the plain tiff. June 23. 1875. Judge Neilson charged the jury and they retired. July 2, 18o. The iury expressed themI selves as unable to . agree, and were discharged.

8 1875

THE SOUL'S DIVINE RAPTURE OF LOVE, FROM THE PERSIAN OF HAFIZ. From tbe Cincinnati Commercial. Sweet voiced musician, sing the strain Anew, anew, again, again ! Deep qaaix the bowl that fires the brain Anew, anew, again, again I Jo some sequestered, sweet recess, what Joy the loved one to possess! To pluck the kiss and ease love's pain Again, again, and yet tgaln ! Life's fierce, full rapture ne'er can know The fool that stint the wine god's flow Love's passion is the draught we drain liver, forever and again. In Ulm all glorious things are found That hath my ravished soul fast bound Music and light and all Joy's train Ever afresh, ever again . . O rephyr, when thou murmur'st by Tbe bower in which my love doth lie, Kigh In hi ear my heart's refrain Again, again, and yet again ! BESCHER AT 8IXTY-TWO. From the Brooklyn Argus. Just blxty and two years old, my friends, As the hardest of alt my battles end , And finds me fresh as the youngest of you. A hearty old man at six-two. But I count not age by the flight of time. lnongn my locks are white as tbe winter's rime, For tbe rolling years can do no barm. vvniie tne pulse leaps high and the heait beats warm. THE FAMOUS BOORN CASE. AX INNOCENT MAN'S CAPE. NARROW ES OOIAi: ASD THE BOORN3 DISAPPK ARANCK OP COL VIN TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF THE B00BSS RETURN OF THE SCrTCSED VIC TIM. The following story, which the Dot ton Bui lctin revives, is perfectly true. Wilkie Col lias acknowledges bis indebtedness to it ior the basis of his tale entitled "The Dead Alive." Probably no person in the United states nas oeen convictea oi murder since the trial of Stephen Boom, without the body of tbe murdered person having been found, Most of tbe Sentinel's readers have seen ref erercas to this remarkable instanco of the weakness of confessions, but will- be pleased to have an opportunity .to become ac quainted with tbe details of the case: Oa The morning of the 6ta of November. 1819. I read in tbe Rutland, Vermont, II er aid the following notice : mubdek!" "Printers of newspapers throughout tbe United States are desired to publish that Stephen Boom, of Manchester, in Vermont, is sentenced to be executed for the murder of Russell Colvin, who has bsen absent about seven years. Any person who can give information of said Colvin may save tbe life of tbe innocent, by making Immediate communication. Colvin is about five feet five inches high, light complexion, lieht hair, blue eyes, aud about forty years old. Manchester, Vermont, November 26,1819." This communication was copied very generally by newspapers, and created a great deal ot Interest. Before describing eveuts that followed, let us go back to tbe year of 1S12, and to the little town of Man chester, Vermont. Barney Boom, an old man, had two sons, Stephen and Jessie, and a daughter Sarah, wife of Rns3ell Colvin, a half-crazed, half-witted day laborer. They were a bad lot, poor, ignorant, and In doubt ful repute for honesty. To miserable hovels served them for shelter, and a few acres ot pine Darrens constituted ail their possessions. They raised a few potatoes and garden vegetables, and eked out a scanty livelihood by days' work for the neighboring farmers. In May, 1812, Col vin was at home. In June he was mtssicg. At first this occasioned no remark. He was always a tramp. But this time he did not come back. As weeks grew into monies, inquiries began to be made among the neigh bors about the missing man. 1 here are no tongues for gossip like tbostjwbicb wag in a Yankee village. One spoke to another. Kxcitement grew. Wonder, like a contagious rile Ann A affan disease. effected everybody. It was known that there had long existed between the old man and boys. A ORUDQE AGAINST COLVI9; it was in proof that the last time the miss ing man was seen, he was at work with the Booms clearing ttones from a field, and that a dispute was going on; and Lewis Colvin, a boy, son of Russell, had stated that his father bad struck his uncle Stephen, and that the other had returned tho blow, and that he, th3 boy, becoming frightened, ran away. Again, a Mr. Baldwin had heard Stephen Boom, in answer to an inquiry as to wfcera Colvin was, say, "lie's gone to heil, I hope.' "Is he dead.Stephen?" pursued Mr. Bald win "I tell you again," replied the man. "that Colvin bas gone where potatoes won' freeza." For several years the wonder grew, Colvin's ghoßt haunted every house In Ben nington county. There was no known proof that the tsoorns were guuty, ana yet everybody believed it. A button and jack kniie were found, which Mrs. C. believed to have belonged to Russell; dreams, thrice repeated. were had by old women and kitchen girls and ten thousand stories were in c:r:ulat,ton Five years after Colvin was missing, Stephen Boom removed to Denmark, N. Y., while Jesse remained at home, After the former bad left, some bones were accident ally found in the decayed trunk of a tree near his bouse, ana, though all sur geona said to the contrary, it was universally believed that they were part of a human skeleton. Of course, then, tbey must be Colvin's bones. Jesse was arrusled, Stephen brought back from Denmark, and both were heldibr examination. Althooga all the testimony when silted was lound to be worthless, yet the two brothers were remanded bacit to jail, and Jese was worked upon to make him turn state's evidence. The Jilor tormented him with suggestions, which his wife lollowed up with womanly adroitness. Neighbors helped. Beset with preaching and pravers, tracts and sermons. religious conversations acd pious directions told that there was no doubt in any one's mind but that Stephen committed tbe mur der urged to make a clean breast ot it and thus save both body and soul, what wonder that THS MAN CONFESSED, or was alleged to have confessed, that Stephen Boom did murder Russell Colvin? On September 3, 1819, the grand jury found a bill of Indictment against Stephen and Jesse Boom for the murder of Russell Col: vin. Writ. Farnsworth testified that Stephen confessed that he did it, and that Jesse helped him; that they hid the body in the bushes, then buried it. and then scraped tbe few remains and hid them in a stump. Upon this unsupported evidence tbe jury returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners, and they were sentenced to ba bung on January 2-8, 1820. And no wlhe men came to their- sense?. rhey asserted their innocence. Tbey said they had confessed as their last hope. Some compassion began to be felt for them. They might, alter all, be Innocent. A petition for their pardon was presented, to the legislature. But it availed only to obtain com mutation of Jessie's sentence to imprison ment for life. No more. Stephen" waa to be banged. Let the reader now turn to an other chapter of this strange history. In April 1813. there lived in Dover. Monmouth county, N. J., a Mr, James Polhumus.

During that month a wayfarer.begglng food, stopped at his door. Beicg handv, goodnatured, quiet and obedient, homeless, and weak ot intellect, toe, be was allowed to ta7 H said that bis name was Russell Colnn; and that he came from Manchester, t. Not far from Dover lies tbe little town of Sbewsbury, then a quiet hamlet, now Invaded by the cottages and villas of Long Branch pleasure seekers. Here lived Taber Chadwick, brother-in-law to Mr. Polhumus, and intimate with the iamily. Accidentally nadiegthe New York Evening Post be rnef, not tbe notice of tbe Rutland Herald, but with an account of the trial of Borcs. Convinced that the Russell Colvin alleged to have been murdered was the very man then living with Mr. Polhumus, bo wrote a tetter to tbe Evening Post, which was published December ID, 1S19. Upon the arrival of this paper at Manchester, It excited but little attention. The let'er was believed to be a forgery cr a fraud. Had not the best people in tbe town long believed tbe Boorns to be guiltj? Had not one, perhaps lcth of them, made full confessioL? Tbe bones of the murdered man. a button off his coat, his Jack-knife had they not all beeu found? ilad not an upright judge made solemn charge that TUB EVIDENCE WAS CONCLUSIVE, and an Intelligent jury found them guilty, aad tbe legislature sanctioned their findings? There was no doubt of their guilt, none whatever, and therefore no benefit ofa doubt had been given by the jury, chief justice or court of appeals. Mr. Cbadwick's letter was, nevertheless, taken to Stephen's cell and read aloud. Tbe news was so overwhelming that nature could scarcely survive the shock. The poor fellow dropped in a lainting fit to the floor, and had to b3 recovered by dashes ot cold water. Intelligence came next day lrom a Mr. Whelplry, formerly a resident of Manchester, that he himself had been to New Jersey and seen Russell Colvin. Tbe members of the jury which had convicted the Boorns, however, hesitated to accept anything short of ihe man's rresenv and

Judge Chase, who had sentenced thm. pointed to Stephen Boom's confession. The third day came another letter. "I have Russell Colvin with me," wrote Mr. Whelpley. "I personally know Russell Colviu," swore John Rempton. "he now stands before me." "It is the same Russell Colvin that married Ann Rrn rf Manchester. Vt. made affidavit Mr. Joaes, of Brooklyn. But it-would not answer. Pride of opinion is stubborn. Doubt cf opinion dies hard. Manchester intelligence, not to say piety, was on triel, and it Denooved ail good residents to hold out against conviction to the last. However, Colvin, or Colvin's double, was on his way. As he passed through PouzhkeeDsio the streets were throoged to see him. The news everywhere preceded him. Iiis story was printed in every newspaper and told at every fireside. At Hudson cannon were fired; in AlbaDy be was showed to the crowd from a plattere, and all alonzthe road the Troy bands of music were clavine and banners flaunting and cbeers were given AS OOLVIX PASSED BY. Some men became famous from having been murdered. Russel Colvin was famous be cause he was alive. Towards evening of Friday, December 22, 1819, a double sleigh was driven furiously down the main street of Manchester, to the tavern door. It con tained Whelpley, Kempton, Chadwick and the bewildered Russell Colvin. Immediatelv a crowd of men, women aod children gathered around, and as the sleigh unloaded its . occupants and they took their places on tho piazza, exhibiting the last man to view. That's Russell Colvin. sure enoueh! There's no doubt about it." came from the ips of scores of gazers. lie embraced his two children, asked after the Bxrns, and started for the jail. The prison doors were unbolted and the news was told to Stephen Boom. "Colvin has come. Stephen," said tbe Rev. Lemuel Haynes. 'Has he?" asked the prisoner. "Where is he?" "Here I am. Stephen," said his brother-in-law. "What'a tbem on your legs?" "Shackles," replied Boom- "What for?" "Because they say I murdered you." You never hurt me in your life," replied Colvin. The sequel is soon told. Stephen Boom was released from prison, as was Jesse also. JRassell Colvin returned to New Jersey. But the udge who suffered an innocent man tobe convicted of murder by tbe admission of extra-judicial confessions the members of the jury who deliberated but one hour before agreeing upon a verdict of guilty, noon evi dence that should not bang a dog the deacon and church members who urged contession, and the ninety-seven members of the legislature, sitting as a Court cf Ap peal, who refused rehearing of evidence what became of them. TOWN AND GOWN. A TALE COLLEGE DISPCTEWITK THE "PEELERS." There was considerable disturbance in "Sew Haren, Conn., on Monday uigbt, growing cut ofa notification from two polic3men to seme of tho Yale students that the explosion of fire-works was in violation of a city ordinance and must cease. The Journal and Courier says: "Some of the students went upon tbe college campus and from there made insulting remarks to the officers, a student named Martin persisting inexrloding fire-works. Officer Smith wect over the fence on the college grounds and arrested a student, taking him some distance off tbe grounds, when a cry ot .'Yale, Yale,' was raised, and some hundreds of the boys rallied with canes and clubs in their hands, and by rushing, succeeded in releasing the prisoner. The policewero presently reinforced by about half a dozeu officers. There was a good deal of struggling and shouting, some of the officers being roughly handed. Alter a time about fifteen policemen took a hand in the came. and, aa arrests were made, the priserson were walked down across the green to the station hou8e, tho officers having hard work to witnstand tie rusbes aud assaults of tbe students. Some ot the officers were struck with bangers and eooae of them were thrown down. Others lost their hats. Officer McCarthy was hit in the face, not seriously. It was a very tu multuous battle, the green .paths all the way from College down to Church street be ing covered wit a excited and riotous young men eager to diFticgmsh themselves by vanquishing a peeler. One after another arres:s of the students were made until 13 were inside the lockup. Mr. Dexter, of the college management, and Prof. Sumner, were soon at the police stotion and gave bonds for tbe appearance of tbe young men st tbe city court this morning. Officer Kelly being somewhat hurt, was dismissed lor tne night from duty. One student got a. blow from a policeman's billy, which drew blood on his forehead. ' On tbe up train from San Francisco, a day or two ago, was a passenger who had with? him a cage containing a parrot. Shortly after leaving Oakland a newsboy came through the car announcing. "San Francisco papers 1 Here's your morning papers," etc.. when he was unexpectedly interrupted by the parrot, which ejaculated, "Oh, give us a rest!" Under the rules of the company the parrot waa presently removed to the baggage-car. The baggageman was busily engaged In 6ortine out his baggage and putting it just where he wantea it. 'ine coniusion, added to tho noise and jolting of the train, was too much for the bird, and he cried out, to the astonishment of the baggageman, 44 Where In am I?" Sacramento Union, .