Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1879 — Page 2

THE ESTDIAKA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1879-

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WEDNESDAY. FKBUAEY 6. CLIPP1&GS. a land where revolver and rifle Aroused for the purpose of settling disputes; Where life is regarded as only a triile. And Its usual fur people to die In their boots." Breathitt County. Xy. Axts that keep the world busy Inf-anls. Kobesos, Old Zach., Logan whew ! What a tandem ! Boston Post. Naval officers can take their girls to ride ia revenue cutters Boston Post. Tub revival ot the "Black Crook" at Nlblo's promises to cot into Talmage. Boston Post. An old gentleman fell down stairs in New York and Comstock is after him for ln-descent exposure. Boston Post. A tailor who was asked if the close or the year made him melancholy, said, yes, until they were settled for. Cincinnati Saturday Night. The good custom of retiring early with a lift h ted pipe and waking up on the other shore is, we notice, still adhere- to out West. New York Express. "Rock of ages left for me," sang a young married man who was set to rocking the baby the other night while his wire prepared tea. Uowanda Enterprise. Nose of Vanderbilt's horses are quite fast enough to satisfy him. Several people lately have been able to get out of the way without being run over. Chicago Times. "Oh! isn't it just glorious?" was Princess Louise's exclamation on seeing Niagara. Borne didn't say much, but kept thinking about the hack rare. New Haven Register. "What," said an inquisitive young lady, "is the most popular color for a hnde?" We may be a little particular in such matters, but we should prefer a white one. Klmira Gazette. Again the Bible is wrong, it was John Wilkes Booth, and not Cain, that killed Abe Iu Yale News. You needn't tell everything you know. It's only helping Bob Ingersoll. Boston Post. Rev. Me. Ballard, the Sweet Singer of lows, is determined to meet Julia A. Moore, the Sweet Singer of Jt liigan, la joint contest. Detroit Free Pres Glad of it. Hope they'll give us a little ballad. Boston Post. An enterprising newspaper has fonnd a young lady who blushes, goes to bed at , eats heartily, speaks plain Kngllsh, respects her mother, doesnt want to marry a lord, and knows how to cook. Now, Where's your "manflsh?" "Why are you looking at me so intently. Alice?" said Theodore. "I was gazing at vacancy," replied Alice, dreamily and yet there is a twinkle about her mouth that shows her appraisement of the young man. Boston Transcript. Skjmptox came in the other day to teli o yet another sign of the good times coming. Turning his face around to discover the beau tiful redlacework so eloquent of scratches, says Skimpton, "Mrs. S.'s nail works have started up, you see." Boston Transcript. A fiend in human shape: "Beg pardon, sir! But I've just caught these two young rascals making a slide in front of your doorstep, and they say as you give 'em permission." "It's quite correct; I did, policeman. The fact Ls, I xpcct my mother-in-law to luneheou." Punch. Tub following answer was recently given to an examiner at an examination: "What do you know of the patriarch Adam 7" "He was the father of Lot, and had two wives, Hlshmale, and the t'other Haygur; one became a pillow of salt in the daytime and a pillow of lire at night." "No woman of proper self-respect," says a woman's rights journal, discussing tin; marriage ceremony, "will submit to be given away." Perhaps not; but, dear woman's Tighter, to be "given away" is not the worst feature of the ceremony. She is too often "sold." And, if she isn't, the chances are that the man is. Norristown Herald. CCEUEST TOPICS. Taylor, Texas, ha3 harvested 300 tons of ice. A girl della." in G rattan, Mich., is named "BirThere is a clock in Kentucky which has f3 pendulums. A paste made of lard and gunpowder will cure frost bites. Who was the first girl mentioned in the Bible? Jennie Sis. Emma Abbott gets no end of love-lorn letters from college lads. In England the American "hoyster" is growing very popular. David Puriey, of Morrlstown, aged 25, has married his step-mother, aged 00. There are fully 1,500,000 bushels of wheat crammed in Michigan's elevators. Mrs. Jobn S. Astor at a recent ball glinted amid $250,000 worth of diamonds. "Water is so scarce in Atchison, Kansas, that people are obliged to melt snow. The Ogdenburg Journal records the discovery of a coal-black English sparrow. One firm in Fon da Lac, Mich., shipped 29,000 pounds of poultry daring the season. At a Deadwood, Black Hills, wedding, the feast consisted of fried liver and ice-cream. Here is a Minnesotta girl who offers to grind 2,700 quarters of wheat in 2,700 quarter hoars. Except at table, Queen Victoria will not he waited upon by those who are not of gentle blood. There hasn't been much talk lately about the big fortunes made by speculating in silver stocks. English corn is a new product in Kansas. It resembles sorghum cane and grows about five feet high. Talmage says that hundreds of New York husbands spend more money for drink than on tjheir families. The National Trotting association has gone back on the record of Barus (2:13Ji ), and refuses 10 allow it. A Chicago paper says that "a young lady shonid never stretch her feet out in compa ny." That babit must have caused a good deal ot trouble in Chicago. Four hundred millions of five-twenties in the pot, and John Sherman says, "I call you." Now fetch on your, stories of old times on the Mississippi river. Ex-Goveraor Chamberlain, of South Can lina, has been down with tbe diphtheria. His little Hugh died ot the disease last week. Every other member of his family was ill. An honest newsboy in San Francisco ad Tertised that the gentleman who gave him a five dollar gold piece in mistake for a quar ter could have it by calling at hia "corner." At Cariboo, N. S., the young people want ed the public school house for a dance. Tbe school trustees refused their request. The next nigat the school house disappeared with an explosion, 'and the shattered timbers ahow that powder caused it destruction. A convicted man under sentence of death at Reno, Nev., was compelled during bis trial to expose his arm and Show certain marks ffhich a witness said were there. Hiscouu-

eel now demands a new trial on the ground that he was thus made to testify against himself. General Burnstde two years ago became a total abstinence man, and began to drink apollinans water, which, since that time, has become the fashionable drink of Washington. A bill has been introduced in the Wisconsin Legislature to build a State fish hatchery in Milwaukee the State to appropriate $5,000 for tbe purpose and Milwaukee to

donate tbe site. In Boston the tramps are provided with baths and night shirts, the hire of which they must work out next day. While in the tramp hotel the guest must neither smoke nor swear. Governor Hampton has received eo many letters of condolence from all sorts of people from all over tbe country that he has to apologize through the papers for lack of time to answer them all. Pages in the United States Senate go about among the senators with albums, to which tbey solicit signatures lor people in the galleries, who give a slight compensation to the pages for the favor. Julia Ward Howe has witnessed the ceremonies incident to the induction of another houri into the mysteries ot the Khedive's harem. Julia! O Julia! You're behaving quite peculiah. A housekeeper in Detroit, Mich., who was unjustly accused by her emplcjer of stealing sixty-two dollars from bim and imprisoned one night, has recovered a verdict of $300 damages against him for false imprisonment. The phenomenal arms and neck of Miss Boyle, a young English lady visiting J.ady Thornton, continue to excite ad miration and remark. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Times says they are pure white and not a bane is visible. King Louis, of Bavaria, is the most eccentric of nionarchs. A few days ago he gave a dinner to Louis XI V. and his court, four teen courses were laid, one for the living king and the other for the dead one and his imaginary attendants. After this cheerful repast King Louis went to his riding school and rode around tbe ring for a number of hours, when he announced that he had per formed the feat of riding from Hohenschwangau to Innsbruck. A JIIDllKiHT SWISS. Captain Boyntoa's Trip from the Hut tery to the Narrows. 1 New York Star, 25th. Shortly before midnight last night the residents in the vicinity of Battery park were roused from their slumbers by the loud tooting of a horn and the shouts of a crowd of men and boys, who stood shivering on the stone landing at Castle Garden. A number of policemen repaired to the spot and found Captain Paul Boynton standing in the center of a group, which included "Nan, the Newsboy," and members of his volunteer lifesaving corps. Boynton was encased in his rubber suit, and was accompanied by James Creelman, an officer of the corps, similarly enveloped. The twostepppd nimbly into the water at the turn of the tide, intending to paddle down the bay as far 03 the Narrows, and return at the now. Considerable delay was experienced in arranging the contents of a neat little metallic ship which the hardy captain proposed to take with him. It is built of tin, end measures three feet from stem to stern. On the forward deck was placed a small but powerful retlector and a coal oil lamp capable of throwing a ray of light a distance of 3,000 feet. A steel compartment for heating coffee, a compass, a barometer, cigars, biscuits and half a dozen rockets completed the outfit of the novel little crafr. "Baby Mine" was the name painted on both bows, tbe whole design being a creation of the indomitable swimmer, who thus sought to overcome the danger of becoming cramped from hunger while in the water. The river looked dark and forbidding as the adventurers entered it, armed with Indian canoe piddles. Ice lloes twirled and eddied about the strong current, coming into dangerous contact with the men s headgear. At these obstacles the captain only laughed, however, and led the way seaward, his companion following closely in tow. A rocket was set off from the miniature ship, and ascended with a blaze of light into the darkness overhead. Then a parting cheer was given by the assembled friends on the landing, and Com oa anl his friend suon became indistinct from the pier. Opposite Governor s island another rocket was discharged, but the sleepy garrison did not respond. For a longdistance down the bay the headlight of "Baby Mine" could be seen dancing up and down. The captain's purpose, as announced to a reporter before leaving, was to remain in the water continually from the time of entering until 10 a. m. to-day. The pair will lunch in the lower bay at 5 a. m., '"up to their waists in watsr," and take the return now of the tide back to the starting point. The trip was undertaken for tha purpose of testing an improvement recently made in the lire saving suit. This is an attachment covering the lower part ot the jacket with half inch rubber, to afford additional protection to the swimmer from ice Hoes or rocks." Diphtheria Viewed Historically. New York Times. In spite of the careful study that has been given to the disease, diphtheria must still be classed as an nnexplainable physical disorder. For a long time it was supposed to be of modern origin, but medical historical research has shown that there is good rea son for thinking that it prevailed with deadly effect in India as long ago as 600 B. C, and that the fatal epidemic called in the Talmud "askara" was essentialy diphtheritic in its character. But from this time forward to the seventeenth century there is no disease described with which it can. be compared. At that time there were many deaths from this cause; but it appears to have made a complete leap over the eighteenth century, and not to have been taken into professional account until about 20 years ago. Since that time, J.$o8, it has been intermittent in its severity when, any given locality is considered, though it has never disappeared, when this and other lares countries are taken into account. What regulates its coming ana its going is, however, an un solved mystery. Of tbe nature of tbe disease itself the same uncertainty exists, some physicians classing it with tbe very common disorder known as croup, while others, of seemingly equal authority, mantain that there is no connection between the two. Indeed, almost as much is learned by what it does not do as bv what it does. In this way it has been repeatedly shown that it is governed by family con stitutional attractions, since, when one member of a family has it, other members of tne household are much more liable to be attacked by it than friends or nurses who are not related by blood ties, even though the exposure in the latter cases should be greater than tbe former. In view of the cumber of cases of sicknes? from this cause in this oity at the present time, it would be well tor all to bear to is last named circnm stance in mind, for the frequency with which two or more members ot a family die within a short tirua from this disease is one of ita mo3t painful features. It is, at least. satisfactory to know that the number who recover is now much lareer than it once was. for in ancient times it was styled an incurable complaint, while the present rate of mortality from this cause is less than 40 per cent, of those who sutler from it. The fact of its complete absence through long terms of years certainly indicates its possible preventahitity, ana in these daysol enlight ened medical research it will be strange if some way is not discovered oi stamping it out as ellectualiy as small-pox has been eradicate a.

THE DEELD -.USURY.

Startling Review of an Old Time Bloody Tragedy. A Whole Family . Murdered tnd an Innocaat Man Hang. Strange Plots and Counter Plots of Deep-Dyed Criminals. Murder, Perjury, Sudden and Untimely Deaths, Strange Confessions and Horrid Suspicions. Story That, In Dramatic Interest, Xqaala the Beat French Xovel. Special Correspondence ol the Sentinel. Leiianox, O., Jan. 2!, 1S79. Taking the train on the Litt'.e Miami road at Cincinnati, you are whirled in a northeasterly direction through the valley of the Little Miami river, walled in on either side by high hills for a distance of 35 miles, when you come to a little town formerly called Deerfield, but now South Lebanon. Although surrounded by rugged and rather romantic scenery, there is nothing in the town itself to attract attention, uuless it be its look of thriftlessness. Taking the. omnibus for Lebanon, over the Lebanon pi'.e, about a mile out on the road in a northerly direction you begin to ascend a rather steep hill, and as you approach the summit your attention will be called to a neat two-story white frame house, standing back some 200 yards from the read, with saveral tall cedars in front, and approached by a neatly graded and graveled drive. That is the place where the Roosa (pronounced Ko-se) murder was committed. Here is the scsne of a tragedy which has scarcely a parallel in the annals of crime. Here with his family dwelt John Iloosa.w'ao owned a farm of 300 acres, was connected with the best families in Warren county, altogether well-to-do, aad a man of influ ence. In 1SG1 he became insane, and on the 12th of December of that year was confined in the Day to a Asylum for the Insane. Th family, which consisted of Mm. Melinda Roosa, the wife and mother; Alice Belle, a beautiful girl of fifteen; Frances, aged twelve; Jeannette, aged seven, and a boy baby, Harry, aged two, remained at the homestead, and an old man named Jesse Cousins lived with them. About December 20, Mr. Rooaa, having partially recovered, wrote to his wife directing her to have some barley (about eleven hundred bushels, which was stored in the barn) delivered to a brewer at Morrow Town, and advising her to draw the monsy and keep it about the house for use. Being much elated at the business manner in which her husband wrote, it being to her mind an indication of his speedy recovery, she thoughtlessly read the letter at the village store. The injunctions of the letter were fully earned out, except that on December 25, Mrs. Ronsa went for the niouey and the brewer being absent on business, she did not get it. AS AWFCL TBAUKDY. On the morning of Dacember 2fp the family of a neighbor, Mr. Scott, was priced to see little Nettie, as Jeannette called, appro:ch their residence at day that break, and as best she could tell them all at home had b?en murdered. The neighborhood was alarmed, and the people, in company with the little one, repaired to her home to find her story true. The fair young girl, Alice Belle, was found dead on tbe din ing room floor with a dozan frightful cuts on her person, attesting the fearful manner in which she died. The faithful gray-haired old man was found dead silting ia a chair in the kitchen, near the lounge on which he had slept, which was covered with b!ood. The floor and walls were bespattered, and theie was abundant evidence of a fearful struggle. The baby boy, Harry, was found in an ad joining room wilh his head cleft in twain from the forehead to the base of the skull. Mrs. Roosa, the beautifal young wife and mother, was found near her babe with fourteen wounds on her persjn, seven of which had penetrated the skull, two great wounds on either cheek, and both her breasts split wide open. She afterward fully recovered, but the frightful tears marred her beauty forever. Frances, the girl of 12, was on a lounge in the same room in about the same condition as her mother. Little Nettie was the only one uninjured. The first theory ots that Mr. Roosa had escaped from the asylum and murdered his Innocents, and the wounds, it was decided, had been inflicted with a hatchet. STORY OF THE CHIMB. Little Nettie told the following story: She and Alice were sleeping across the hall from where her mother, Frances and Harry were. During . the night she was awakened by a noise and saw a man sitting on the bedside in his shirtsleeves and bareheaded, holding Alice by the band and talking to her. He told Nettie to lie down or he would kill her. She was terribly frightened and covered ap her head. She heard Alice begging and pleading for her life, telling the miscreant she would give him ail the money in the house if he would spare her life. She thinks she may have gone to sleep; at all events she was again aroused by voices when the man reappeared with a lamp and a hatchet. J ust then she heard a noise in the dining room, when the assassin turned and looked in that direction, approached tbe window, sat down the lamp, threw aside tbe hatchet, raised the window and hurriedly passed out. She then harried from the bed. passed through the different rooms and noted the work of the murderer. She found eouie bandages and went to her mother, who was lying on the floor in a pool of blood, and tried to bindup her wounds. She described the murderer as beirg a short, tbick-st man with light hair, blue eyes and a red moustache, bareheaded and in his shirtsleeves. The child's story rather staggered the theory that Mr. Korea had perpetrated the deed, as her description of the man in no way coincided with her father's appearance. The neighbors had been scouring the neighborhood for Ejc81, expecting to find him dead; but he could not be found. The authorities then telegraphed to Dayton to see if he had escaped. The answer came that he was in the asylum. STATEMENT OF MU.. ROOSA. Meanwhile, Mrs. Roosa had bten so far restored as to converse. Her statement was that, hearing a noise in the dining room, Ehe, with her babe in her arms, started in that direction. Just as she opened an inter

vening door she was confronted by a man

with a hatchet in his hand, who btruck at her. She dodged, and the blow missed her, striking the babe and killing it. She succeeded in wresting the hatchet from the man, but he regained it and struck her blow after blow, until she became unconscious. She came to her sensjs aeain and beard voicci in the dining room, one of which she recognized as Alice's. She was unable to hear what the man said, but heard Alice exclaim, "You won't kill me now I have given you tbe money?" Then she again became insensible. When again conscious she heard some one walking around es if in their stacking feet. The looibt-ps seemed to ap proach the doorway and stop at the threshold, but ehe dared not move, but lay as one dead. She heard the footsteps then go in the direction of the room where Alice and Nettie slept. Again her sense" left her, and she knew nothing more until Nettie came to her with a lamp and tried to bandage her head. Her description of the murderer tallied exactly with that of Nettie's. Frances' mind became quite lucid, and her narrative coincided exactly with that of her mother. She lingered for several days, but finally died, the fourth victim of the massacre. FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. Several persons in tbe neighborhood were arrested on suspicion, but there being no evidence against them they were speedily released. The hatchet with which the tragedy was committed, was found where Nettie said the murderer had left it. It was one which belonged to the family, and the old roan, Jessie Cousins, bad need it tbe evening prior to the murder, for splitting kindlingwood, and had left it just inside tbe woodhouse door, some six feet from the porch over wbich tbe murderer is supposed to have entered the honse. To further corroborate Nettie's story, the window where she said tbe man had passed out was found raised, and the bloody impress of three fingerj was on the window fei II- On the porch over which tbe window opened, were tracks of blood, indicating which way the man had fled. A colored silk handkerchief was found on tbe garden walk. Owing to the fact that Mr. Roosa was thought to have been tbe perpetrator of the murder, tbe authorities did not at tbe time make as thorough and systematic a starch as would otherwise have been made; conse quently the few developments given above were the result of only a partial investiga tion. A large reward was offered by the commissioners of the county, and this was greatly augmented by a much larger one offered by James Roo3a, a brother of the insane man. Tbe remainder of my story will have to deal with one of tbe strangest cases it has ever been my lot to chronicle. It shows how a weak and simple-minded, though designing, nun, to make himself for a time the hero of the community, and to gain gold, Haman-like, tried to bring auoiher to tbe gallows but got bis own neck into the noo&e. A STRANGE INCIDENT. Samuel Maud Coovert had formerly lived in South Lebanon, near the Rjosa place, but had separated from his wife and family, and gone to live with his sister and brother iulaw, one McNeal. in Middletown, ()., some fifteen miles distant from tbe Roosa plac. It appears that Coovert was one of the fir.t at Middletown to hear of the murder ar.d the lare rewards offered. He immediately told it to different parties. This must have been on the Thursday after ins act. no was so siuy as to think he would only have to name the miscreant and get the reward. After visiting the tcene of the tragedy and becoming thoroughly acquainted with the circumstance.1', be went to an officer and told him that he knew tbe one that committed the act; that a roan, David Hicks, who formerly lived in tl e neighborhood, but now kept saloon in Cincinnati, had, while under the influence of liquor, confessed to having committed the deed. Coovert said Hicks was the guilty man, and then asked for the reward. He described Very minutely the manner in which the alleged murderer said he did the butchering. To these statements Coovert made affidavit, and Hicks was soon found, arrested, and brought to Lebanon, the county seat, for trial. It was with difficulty that the excited populace were restrained from lynching him. He proved an alibi beyond the shadow of a dunbt, and was of course set at libetty. The grand jury theu indicted Coovert for perjury. He entered a plea of inFanity, but was convicted and sent to the Stale prison for a period of five years. COOVERT IN THE TOILS. No definite clue had yet been obtained respecting the Identity of the guilty party,and the large rewards were yet unclaimed. At this juncture a detective, a man utterly devoid of principle or honor, came upon the Foene. He soon learned of the reading of John Rooa's letter at the village store, and that McNeal, the brotfier-in-lav of Coovert. was present at the time. From this or:e link he forged a chain of circumstantial evidence which doomed Sam Coovert, an innocent man, to diean ignominious death. Coovert's attempt to falsely implicate tbe Cincinnati man worked hard asainst him, and contributed to bear bim swiftly on to his undeserved fate. Under a special law passed by tbe Legislature, allowing convicts to be taken out of tbe penitentiary" and tried for higher crimes than the one for which they were confined, Coovert was brought from Columbus to Lebanon, indicted by the grand jury, and placed on trial for the murder of the Roosa family. The evidence against him was purely circumstantial. It was not proven that he came to or near the scene of tbe tragedy on that fatal night, but it came out that he was not seen at home after 9 o'clock on that evening. A man was seen on tbe road from Middletown to South Lebanon that night, riding in a hurried manner on horseback in the direction of the latter place, and some one pissed through tbe toll gate half-way between the two places the next morning at 3 o'clock, going in the direction of Middletown. These persons were supposed to have been the same, but neither was identified as Sim Coovert. Mrs. Roosa testified that the man who attacked her used the hatchet in his left hand. Sim Cooyert was left-handed. Thera was evidence that Coovert had formerly used handkerchiefs similar to the one found on the walk in the Roosa garden, but tbe handkerchief was not identified as being his. It is now believed that this evidence was false, and was worked op by the detective in his efforts to secure tbe large rewards. ' But the evidence which did most to convict Coovert was yet to come. .'THE STRASGE PLOT THICK BUS. , Mary Shaffer, a young woman of very bad character, and who afterwards died a horrible death in a bouse of prostitution, swore that she was at Mc Seal's the morning after the murder( Wednesday) in Middletown, and that Coovert came in about? o'clock and toldcbe horrifying ttory. There were no means by which the )ieoole of Middletown could know of the horror until the Cincinnati evening papers :.uie, which would be late Wednesday night, to the girl testified that Coovert told of the murder 21 hours before it could pos-ib'.y be generally known there. The defense tried to make her ray it was on Thursday instead of Wednesday morning, but she stubbornly persisted in the story as taught her by the detective. She said that she bad mentioned this fact to no one but the detective, and when pressed fur her reasons for preserving silence gave tbe very unsatisfactory answer that she did not wish to become mixed up In any affair of tbe kind. The prisoner was on this first trial convicted of murder in the second degree, whereupon tbe defenss made a motion for a new trial, which was granted. COOVERT CONDEMNED ASD HUKO. At the second trial the evidence as to Coovert's ownership of the handkerchief, though stronger, was not positive. However, a verdict of murder in the first degree was returned, and he accordingly was executed at Lebanon, August 24, l.SbO. Mit s She fie r stated to reliableparties before she died that

the detective was to have given her a thousand dollars for her evidence, but that he did in fact give her but three hundred. The detective has since come to a disgraceful and untimely death. The community was much divided as to Coovert's guilt or innocence, before the execution, but it seems that.a majority were against the Door, penniless wretch. A circumstance has since been developed, in which the prosecution figured quite prominently, which in no vtay reflects credit upon them. A short time before the

execution, at midnight, the prisoner was taken from the jail and hurried away toward tbe place of the murder. A rope was put around his neck and over a limb, and he was drawn up until nearly dead, to try to extort a confetsion from him, but without avail. This shows that even the prosecutors entertained serious doubts as to his guilt. Coovert made bis debut as a criminal in connection with this Room affair. Prior to this he had been looked upon as an innocent, harmless, half-witted fellow. For all these long years since the execution of Coovert public opinion has been steadily approaching the conviction that the wrong man died on- the scaffold. There were inconsistencies in the testimony of Mrs. Roosa even. At the different examinations her description of the murderer's appearance did not correspond. Many think that the person who entered the house came for the purpose of committing more heinous crime than that of murdering for money. Only a small sum a very few dollars were taken by the criminal. The near future, it is believed, has some developments to make, when startling and now nnthonght of chapters will be written concerning this awful horror. Coovert did not, as many do, die "game," but he saw that bis fate was inevitable, and made up his mind to die with calm, Christian resignation. Here is cooveet's nviso declaration while on tbe ccafiold: "Cent'.emeD," be said, "I am about to leave this world. I have had two dreadful trials. I have been treated justly as far as I know, by the jury and judges, but as to the witnesses I can not say ihey were just. v hue my end is near, 1 call God to witness that I never murdered that innocent family. As to the evidence of my speaking of it on Wednesday 1 hope I may never see God if I knew it until Thursday." Here prayer was offered, the noose placed around bis neck, tbe black cap drawn down, and tbe doomed man exclaimed "brood -bye; oh! dear, oh! dear, it is horrible to die an innocent man, inno ." The word was not finished. Tbe sheriff pulled the lever just then, and Sam Coovert s soul went to meet its God. AM IXS&KE SGISEK. Tltf Lively Ride or a Party of Railway UftielalM Throateh the Mohawk. Vallt jr. fl'Uca Republican A few weeks ago, during the first serious storm, a freight arrived at a poiut. between lewitt and the bridge, and there stopped. Tbe conductor went ahead in order to arrange for getting into the yard as soon as possible. While enzaged in his reconnoissance he heard and felt a tremendous concussion, which sterted his train, doubleheader and ail, ahead considerable. Going back to ascertain the cause of the trouble, he found he had been run into by a freight train, which was moving so slowly, however, as to simply lift tbe rear of his caboose trom the truck and allow it to repoe gracefully on the pilot of tbe engine. Knowing that he had snt a man back to warn all trains following, the conductor hardly knew what to think of the matter till he boarded the engine and found tbe engineer (whom we shall oall Jones). fast asleep and no water in the boiler. Arousing him the engineer seemed to comprehend tbe situation but feebly, and tbe conductor considering him somewhat intoxicated left hi in. The next day Superintendent Priest went to Dewitt in his special coach, and from there determined to go to Albany, with a "light," as it is called, his coach beiug attached to an erjgine and caboose. The engineer proved to be "Jones." aDd he ran so slowly to Manlius, that another road official, who was in the superintendent's car, remonstrated with the conductor, who at once went to tbe engineer, and. complaining of the slow rate of speed at which they had been traveling, asked him to go consid erably faster. Jones obeyed tha order mof-.t surprisingly, hia running time to and through West Albany averaging over 50 mi.es an hour, inrough ilerkimer, ronda, and other water stations he dabbed as if propelled by a hurricane; and the trip has gone iv,o railroad history as one of the most frightful of the age. The next day Jones went up to take his engine for the return trip, but it having been asserted tbat he "burned" his engine badly, and that ha was acting strangely, he was not sent out, and subse quent examination convinced sundry med ical men tbat he was really insane. Since then ne has been in good bands, and will probably folly recover, but his trip through tbe valley will not be forgotten in his gen eration at least. A Bet That Daniel Webster Lost. (Ho-ton Letter to the Hartford Courant. Here is an authentic story ' of debt that Mr. Webster incurred and paid: He was coming on tbe boat from ew lork In lil and a letter bad just been published with the signature of James G. Birney, announc ing bis withdrawal as a candidate for the presidency in favor of Henry Clay. Mr. Webster was the center of a gathering who were congratulating themselves upon its ap pearance, into mis circle stepped a promt nent Liberty party man (wbo is still living and one of the best known figures in Boston) with the denial ol the authenticity ol the letter. Mr. Webster haughtily drew himself up and declared he had no doubt of its genuineness. "But I personally know Mr. Birney," said the abolitionist, "and he is incapable of writing such a letter." Some more words passed, when Mr. Webster said, "I will bet you forty pounds it is a genuine document." "I'll take that bet," was the instant rejoinder. When the boat reached Boston, a dispatch was found there stating the letter to be a forgery. Mr. Webster acknowledged that appearances were against him, but, as tbe dispatch annonnced tbat some kind of a letter bad been written, he asked the gentleman to wait to see what it was before tbe bet was paid. A day or two after, wben tbe the letter bad come, and proved to be entirely foreign in character to what was represented, Mr. Webster's opponent went to tbe great man's office to confront him with tbe testimony. "Yon have fairly won," said Mr. Webster, and, reaching to a pigeon hole in his desk, took down two new hundred dollar bills and paid him. Tbe gentleman was astonished at Webster's promptness and apologized for taking it. "That's all right," ssid Mr. Webster, "'it's fairly yours." The gentleman, who was a poor man then, immediately proceeded to pay a debt with it. This debt he owed for borrowed money received from a very distinguished Boston merchant, one of Mr. Webster's intimate friends, to whom he went and cancelled tbe obligation, telling the story bow he came by tbe means to d j it. The merchant looked at the bills with a meaning smile and said: "Those bills were my money only a fw hocrs aeo." He was ore a few CHpitsliats htr to whom Webster always resorted wnn in need. Tbe National Camp Meeting association for the promotion ot holiness have resolved to hold a grand central national camp meeting, at Summit Grove, near Xew Freedom, York county, Penn. The meeting will begin July 30, and continue ten days. Our readers will not be so very foolish that they will allow themselves be deceived with a new cough syrup, when they have experienced the value of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup for many years.

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