Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1876 — The Death of Reverdy Johnson. [ARTICLE]

The Death of Reverdy Johnson.

Baltihok-j, Md., Feb. 10. Mr. Johnson arrived at Annapolis last might to argne the case of Baker vs. Frick. By invitation of Gov. Carroll, he became fcis guest at the Executive Mansion to-day. •The Governor invited Chief-Justice Barton, of this State, and several'other gentlemen, to meet Mr. Johnson at dinner at the mansion. They dined at about five p. m. At dinner, Sir. Johnson appeared in excellent spirits and his' usual health, and entertained the company by his conversation and relating anecdotes. At dinner he took one glass of Maderia, and Tefused to take any more. After dinner he suddenly asked the Governor to take him to the narlof, He took the Governor’s arm, and walking in there sat down on a sofa. At the request of Mr. Johnson the Governor rejoined the guests at the table. Shortly after a servant appeared at the door, and beckoning the Governor out, told him Mr. Johnson was lying in •the yard, on the stones. Gov. Carroll went immediately to the place and found Mr. Johnson lying on tfce cobble-stone carriage-way that passes under the porch ■of the mansion, close up to the-wall, and near a door leading into the basement. He had evidently gone idown the front steps and around to the side of the house, and fallen where he was found. This was about 8:15 p. n. r and the imKsion is that he had bean there at least an hour. He was then . dead, and iiad been bleeding profusely. from the wounds on the right side of his head and face. There are large wounds .on the right side of the forehead, two fractures of the skull from the upper portion of • the forehead to the eyebrow, a dislocation of a linger of the left hand, and - ewts on the Lauds and the legs. The griiysicfans are' examining the body to -determine the camae of death. ANNiC* r *i.iß, Feb. 11. Hr. Lewis H. Stein, State .Senator from Frederick County, a distinguished physician. and Chief inspector oi toe Sanitary Commission in the Army of (the. Potomac during the war, who examined the body shortly alter it w'as found, gives the following as his theory of the cause of death: Mr. Johnson either stumbled-over a piece of rail, or, being seized with apoplexy, and -striving to save himself, moved toward the west, staggering along by the northerly side of the Executive Mansion, at each-step his body gainiagsadditional momentum, so that having .reached the door leading into the basemeat.he-awayed around :td the south and tell, his head strikingagainst the sharp corner as the granite base of the house, which gave the rat wound on the head. Beaching the pavement of rough cobblestones,.a second wound was 'received in front,of the first. At this instant, probably* the bones of the noae were fractured, and .one joint of the second finger of his righrihand was dislocated. ’Whether his subseqiient strugties may account for the abrasions on his nces and the fingers of his left hand, cannot be posilirtely asserted. The wounds in the scalp were accompanied with fractures of the eternal bones of the,cranium and the base : f the skull also, with the probable rupture of some of the s&rteries at the base. Death must have resulted instantly. Mr. Gwynne, ithe Attorney-General of ithe State, and a-ten-in-law of Mr. 4ohnsob, is ot the opinion that he was seized ’With vertigo and (fell, as he had a similar attack, lasting three hours, while attending. t trial in South -Carolina several years *BO-.

•Noir many years ago, when nearly eueiy country family gi*ew and made their on a pickles, in W,catches ter N. y..,itkat now yields Use largest quantity, not 5,000,000 cucumheßS a year were produced.; At the present time, when the manufacture of pickies for sale has become ao immense business, Westchester averages a yearly yield of from 70,000,000 to 80,000,000, and the f»W*du«t of other sections has increased in lik£ pnoportion. ■ a ffiji There ore thirty.two cities ia the German Empire which have a population ot man than 50,000 each. ’ -