Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1882 — Page 7

UPON MY WORD SHE DID! / _______ Her hair was black. “Bat black,” she sighed, “Is very much too cold,”Aud so she bleached hemlocks until They looked almost like gold. A simple satin robe she wore, Which closely to her clung , (In fact it was extremely scant), " , And from her belt a lily pale And four sunflowers hung— Four big sunflowers hung. She would not touch a bit of meat, But ott she'd sit au,d weep, \ To think the broiled chops were once Part of a baby sheen. “And oh!” she’d moan, “these seared steaks, So full of gravy now,” (This was a slight mistake, I think), “Once wandered o’er the fields and meads, Attached to a cow— A gentle browsing cow.' She was the most poetic thing; She wouldn’t harm a fly; “its life is short at best,” she’d say—“Oh, pray don’t make it die!” The very cat for catching mice In tearful voice she chid, And then at last she married (And seemed quite glad to get him, too) A butcher: yes, she did— Upon my word she did! —Margaret Eytinge, in Harpers Magazine.

A BIG THIEF.

Stealing SIOO,OOO fnom a Stage Coach, When Disappointed in a Contract to Fight —Dyipg an Exile. [Cor. Louisville Courier-Journal.] Soon after Polk’s inauguration, war was declared against Mexico, and he called for 50.000 volunteers. The national militia system was then in full force. The states were divided into military distric ,s, with a brigadier overeach, who was either elected or appointed by the governor. Four times a year a guard review? was held called “quarterly mvsteis,” which lasted sometimes eight or ten days. The country was thus ripe for the emergency. No drafting or drumming-up like we had in our “late unpleasantness.” The question then was who would get his command accepted, as the call would not quire allow of a brigade from each state. At the time to which we have just alluded there lived in the town of Delaware, Ohio, an educated wealthy man by the name of Otho Hinton, who, besides being a large owner in the line from Cincinnati to Cleveland, proprietor of the HiDton House, at Delaware, then one of the finest hotels in the state, was brigadier of the Central militia district, and was always to be seen on “muster days” on a white charger, dressed in a uujform that would have ma le Phil. Sheiidau asht m ed of himsell. Telegraphing aud railroading were not as far advanced as the electric light is now. Going to Washington was more of an undertaking then Than going to Europe to day. Hiuton wanted to take a brigade to Mexico. He mounted one of his stages and proceeded to Clevland and thence by steamer to Buffalo: and then on to Washington. In a little over six weeks he returned, aud. in reply to inquiries,stated he felt sure of getting his brigade accepted; and he immediately went to work at his ,ow’u expense visiting different militia captains, holding meetings, etc. About this time news came from Cincinnati that General Morgan aud his command in the southern part of the state had been accepted by the war department aud would leave for the seat of war by steamb a*3 from Ciucinuati. Stung to the quick With disapp< iutrmnt, Hiuton disappeared. Nothing was known of his whereabouts until one rainy night in the fall of the year the stage coach from Columbus was stopped at the post office in Delaware. The mail bags had been cut and rilled of their contents. There were no pcsseugers in the coach, and upou the diiver being taken in custody,he stated that Hinton had got on the stage below, and, as it was raining, ordered him to throw the mail sacks in with him; and that _at the village of Stratford, three miles south of Delaware, he had got out on pretense of wishing to see a friend,and ordered him to come on. It was just the time when merchants were sending large amounts of money east in payment for good;,aud investigation proved the robbtiy to exceed one hundf d thousand dollars. This was a bigtL.i.g in those days. It was several days before the governor, although only twenty-one miles from the scene of the robbery, took any action. At la t handbills appeared on the street with the caption,“slo,ooo reward.”aud weut on to state that that amount would be paicDby the governor of Ohio for the capture of Gen. Otho Hinton. Hinton, in the meautime, had footed it across the state to Wellsville. on the Ohio river, where he first heard of the reward offerer! for him. He then went to the house of a friend and requested him to take him to Columbus. His old acquaint, auce took him in a buggy to Columbus and delivered him to the state authorities aud received the reward, which, by the wav, it was always supposed was “divied” with Hintou. The state authorities then turned their prisoner over to the United States marshal, who stared with him to Washington. They arrived safely with him at Wed dell House, in Cleveland. While waiting at the hotel for the steamer Hinton managed to elude the vigilance of the marshal and made good his esepe. Some seven or eight months after a report came to Washington that Hinton was believed to be in San Francisco, under an assumed name. Detectives were sent there,who returned with the dubious report that they had found the man supposed to be Hinton, but could not identify him suffice itly to make an arrest. Hinton was next heard of in Oregon, keeping hotel by the name of Hume. The government made another futile attemped to arrest him, he getting away sucessfuliy on a steamer a day or two before the officers sent to arrest him arrived. Hinton was not heard of again foyabout a year, when one of his sons, who was an officer in the United States navy, was home, in Delaware, on a visit,and stated that his father was in Honolulu, Sandwich

Islands, practicing law. He remained there for years, until fiually the case was dropped from the dqcket in the United States district cofirt. The Hinton fomily in Deleware still lived in affluence and received money constantly fromsome soarse, supposed to come from the general. Hiuton never returned, but died a few years ago in the Sandwich Islands.

An Irish Scene.

[Dublin Irish Times.] At the usual fortnightly Petty Sessions held last week —the presiding Magistrates being Colonel Stuart and Mr. T. B. Wilson —three young men named Corbett,and a man named Shea were charged with having murderously assaulted a process-server named Shefedy. Patrick Sheedv deposed that he resided in C'arrick-on-Suir, and was a m-ocess-server. On Thursday, 29th December last,he got a number of writs to serve on the tenants of Mr. Scally. The writs were for rent due. In the discharge of that duty he proceeded to Ballyneal. and served some of the tenants with writs. While you were serving those writs did anything happen to you? Yes. What was it? I had them all served but two—one for Mrs. Shea and another. I got as far as Shea’s house, and i s I entered the farmyard, Shea, the prisoner, met me. He said, “Sheedy, I never thought I would see you at this dirty work.” Did anything happen to j-ou then? Yes, I heard voices in the kitchen, and I became frightened, and, turning,ran; but before I had gone twenty yards I was seized by three or four persons, and dragged back into the kitchen. Were the writs taken from you? Yes. " After you were taken to the kitchen did anything happen to you? Yes; I was knocked down on the broad of my back, aud several parties shouted, “Shove the writs down his throat.” Can you say if the prisoners were the parties who shouted “Shove the writs down his I was too terrified to know who did it. Colonel Stuart—Were the prisoners there at all? Witness— they were all in the kitchen. Sub-Inspector Cronan —You svy that you were knocked down in the kitchen. When you were down did anything happen to you? Yes. What? As soon as they shouted, “Shove the writs down his throat,” I pleaded for mercy, but it was uo use, and oue of the party stuck a writ into my mouth, and I was held down until I swallowed it. Colonel Stuart —They mane you swallow the writ? Yes; Shea’s writ. Did any of the prisoners take part in this? It was not they that shoved the writ down my throat, but they assisted in holding me while it was being pushed down my throat. Sub-Inspector Cronan —Did you sw:il low more than one writ? I was kept down until I swallowed the other. Did you get any water to wash them down? [Laughter] Yes; after I swallowed the first writ somebody said to give me a driuk of boiling water, and after that I got some dirty water to drink. | Colonel Stuart—And after you got i the water they made you swallow the second writ? Y’es, sir. Sub-Inspector Cronan—^Did anything 1 else happen you? Yes; I was cuffed 1 *nd]beaten and threatened that if Iwas ever caught at such dirty woik again, I would uot get off so easily, aud just as I was goiug out of the kitcheu, run--1 niug, a kettle of boiling water was j thrown after me, but it did not do me any harm. Had you to promise that you would never again go writ-serving"? I had.

A Down East Cannibal.

I Boston, Mas., Jan. 27.—1 tis now ! believed that the murder of Simon A. i Vandercook, near the town of Alford, j this state, afew weeks ago, was the I result of the can nibalistic longings of | a powerfully-built man of tine per- ! sonal apperauce, between 55 and 60 y ears ot age, and weighing something lo\ er two hundred pounds. Beckwith i was about 70 years of age, but apo wer- | full and tough old lellow. On the day ; when the constable and posse broke into his hut some sickening sights were presented. In the stove were discovered tha head, feeth and one hand of a human body, charred and blackened by fire. In an adjoruing room was found the rest of the body, the trunk split through, several ribs split off, and the entrails taken out and lying in a basket near by. Great slices of flesh had been cut from the arms and legs, and' there were evidence of a ghastly and fimendish purpose having tit er, t«»nple ted. The clothing of the dead man lay in a heep beside him. The body was fuliy indentided as that of Vandercook. Its backbone had been taken out and burned, and a wound from some sharp instrument was found on the body net r the snoulder. The remains were deposited at Green Fiver, a small village in the town of Austerlitz, N. Y., in a hog-pen, and all who wished were at liberty to paw over the mutilated lragmeuts. The latest development in the case, however, are the most horrible of all. The theory is, ai*d is said tD be well founded, that Beckwith is a cannibal. It is thought that he intended to eat a p rriion of Vandercook’s body, the liver of the victim having been found in his frying-pan and portiou of it gone. The murderer hud also, it is said, wu.-i.. his victim's remains and otherwise prepared them lor salting down in a barrel, to serve for a supply of food during the winter. That Beckwith’s stomach was not too fastidious for this i sort of diet would seem to be implied by the remark of a stage-driver that “Beckwith ate otie of his horses that died from diesease early this winter.” Borne ot the pepole of Alford say they have herd the murderer boast that he had eaten hpman flesh in Australia, and that he could do it again, if

necessary. It is called to mind that au old lady, named Mrs. Wileiby Peck, went berrying on the mountains iu the vicinity of Beckwith’s cabin several years ago, and has never since been seen- At the time of her disapeerance* 100 men made search for her. Now rieckwith’s lecerit crime gives color to a suspicion that he also murdered this woman, and, perhaps, ate portions of her flesh. 1 V/heu Beckwith was last in Great Barrington, a few weeks ago, he inquired of oue of the butchers wbeiher tne latter wished to purchase some pork. When the cabin was reached, soou after the murder, no pork or other provisions of any account could be found, and the startling query now raised among those possessed of vivid imaginations is whether he intended to sell human flesh as pork. Becxwith’s cabin has been burned, aud it is reported that there has beeu found beneath the rubbish a subterranean passage, in which it is thought that the remains of 100 nave been, buried. The authorities were so tardy in stirring iu the matter after the terrible crime had been discovered that the murderer managed to get away. He was seen several times at points distant u the secne ot the tragedy, but no oue seems to take any specia' interest iu securing his arrest. It is uot belived he will ever be arrested.

Michael is Mad.

Michael Lycet waited until he was thirty-seven before seeking a wife, ami then found the job less easy and more costly than he had expected though lie had the advantage of a considerable bank account. He lives at Nice town, a suburb of Philadelphia He gave a fiddler, whose occupation put him in the way of knowing a great many girls, $lO as a fee lor introducing him to an eligible party; but the girl with whom the agent put him into relations favorable to courtship was cross-eyed, and therefore unsatisiactory. A second payment of $lO to the fiddler resulted In an acquaintance with Miss Nolan, who jilted him after receiving two dresses aud a cloak; and subsequently with Miss Casey, to whom he gave a bonnet, shoes, gloves, and hosiery before finding out - that she would not marry him. Then Michael discarded the fiddier and struck out for himsell with Miss Moran, the daughter of his landlady. He gave to a Police Justice, a few days ago, the following account of his experience with this girl: “Fust she axed forasik dhress. Do yez moind that? cSez I, ‘Will ye marry me?’ ‘lt’s hasty ye are,’ sez she. ‘Margaret,’ sez I,’ fit’s no silk dhress ye’ll have from me till ye promise.’ ‘Very well,’ sez she, wid a smile on her face, T’ll3 be Mrs. Lycet on Christmas Day.’ ‘The day befre Christmas,’ sez I, fit’s married in the moruin’ we’ 1 be.’ ‘Phat mornin’?’ sez she, openin’ her eyes and starin, in me face. ‘Christmas mornin’, sez I. ‘lt’s New Year’s I sed,’ sez she, as Dould as brass. I svur blip’ mad, out she stood like a cow in the mud, and cud nayi her be diuv nor blarneyed. So I waited, an’ to put her in 111 ehipinits 1 gev her a twenty -si veu-d ollar gold ring. On New Year’s Day she sint tne a litter sayin’she’d not marry me if I wuz made ofgoold.” It was to recover the ring that Michael resorted to the Police Court, aud, meeting with success, he has sued all three deceivers to make them give up all his presents.

A Convict's Futile Labor.

Nine months of hard ingenious labor, by Johnny Sansome, a convict in the prison at Folsom, Col., enabled him to escape. By throwing a wiie down between the granite blocks in the floor of the ceil, he discovered a cavity underneath, was an abandoned sewer. With a chisel which he smuggled in from the work shop, and a heavy piece of wood, he broke one of the stones. This required a month, because he could only strike a blow when a door was closed, or some other noise was made to hide it, aud he frequently sat up all night without beiug able to strike more than once or twice. Iu the daytime he was iu the shop. After removing the half square of gran ite, he dug slowly down through three feet of stone and cement, first boring a hole, aud afterward letting the chips fall through it. At the end of three months he got into the sewer, and found it plugged with stoue aud cement ten feet thick at its former outlet. The remaining six months were spent in digging througn this obstruction. He worked at night, and naked, leaving his clothes so arranged iu bed that the guard supposed he was iu them. Foul gas in the sewer nearly suffocated him, loss of sleep made him ill, and his weight fell off twenty-five pounds. But he got out at Within three hours a-.t officer rtuogujzed hi n. and he was again a prisoner.

The Specter of the Vicksburg Siegel

|beu. Landrum in a recent address.] 1 remember to have been 'Standing on a knoll in front of my headquarters on a beautiful night listening to the lire of the batteries. The moon wa - out in all its splendor, arid the flashes that gleamed Irom the mouths ol a hundred guns could be seen for miles to the right and left. Blandiug upon an- adjacent bill to my right a tali figure was seen clothed in white. It seemed to be that of a man at least seven feet high, but the uniform was not that of a soldier. In tones never to be forgotten, and that echoed from hill to valley and from valley to hill, '■«: “Cease firing,” were heard trom tins unearuily looking figure, as though he was cr. l rn , 'nding the world and giving the order, “By kingdoms, right wheel.” Bummoning up all the courage at my command 1 haiUd him with the inquiry, “Who on earth are you?” The prompt aud emphatic response was, “I am Gen. Burbridge’s orderly in my night shirt.” Man wants.bat little here below, W hen little’s to be had, But when he wants that little, Oh, ,He wants It mighty bad.

TABLE TALK.

-Spanish laces are largely imported. There are 207 chartered railroads iu Texas. The Russians call their convicts “un fortunates.” Black is much worn at Washington receptions. Vem is a new coined word to signify vegetable diet q Dakota territory’s cash ’ valuation is almost $48,000,000. The censius of Egypt is to be taken on the 3d of May. The Chilian bite proves to lbe much worse than the Peruvian bark. The United States mail service covers au area of 2,970,000 square miles. General Hancock recently purchased a large tract of laud in Minnesota. The St. Louis bridge is becimiug a very popular place of resort for suicides. Pennsylvania has ouly one copper mine. It turned out SB,OOO worth last year. It is snid that the first requisite for an able-bodied aesthete is intense laziness. John Sbiefly and Mary Sbiefly, of Reading, Pa., have beeu married 72 jears. David Dudley Field is 77 years old, and bus practiced at the New Y< .k bar since 1828. Iu nine months Boston has bad fiftyfour cases of small-pox, and ouly nine were fatal. Tw t o brothers in Missouri have sent six thousaud wild turkeys to market this winter. Three degrees of mining speculation —Positive, mine; comparative, miner; superlative, minus.— — A mailed knight must have required a good many postage stamps to carry him througn successfully. New Hampshire has already had seventy-two inches of snow this winter, and is expecting more. A. man arrested iu Louisville for carrying concealed deadly weapons.had a cocked revolver in his"hat. A child was born, without arms in Toronto, Canada, a few days ago. He is healthy and Is expected to live. In a slander suit in Oregon the court held that “an honest man is a man who won’t steal firewood on a cold night.”

‘•No, sir said the old gentleman, “my daughter will not marry just at present. lam not wealthy enough to support a son-it -’aw.” “ You must make calls,’’said an uncle to his nephew, “whether you like it or not, for there’s always pleasure to be derived —if not when you enter, at least when you come out.” Bishop Colenso’s name has been struck from the list of the English clergy, and thus he is no longer officially recognized as bishop of Natal. Aan - gular feature of the case is that his sala ry goes on as of old. Captain Stone, the trainer and former owner of the mare, says Mr. Vanderbilt intends to make a road-horse of the phenomenal trotter, Maud 8., the coming spring, and that she will never again trot against time. Hiram Sibly, one of the wealthiest men Rochester,N. Y., is proprietor of a 40-000 ac;e farm in Illinois, which is said to be the largest cultivated farm in the world; 3,0(J0 acres of it were last year devoted to seed-raising. An old man broke through the ice at Bay City the other day. He had his hands in his pants’ pockets when he fell in and as his pockets were wet he couldu’t getliis hands out, but he hung his chin on the < dge the of the ice, and thus kept afloat till somebody pulled him out. A ricn copper mine has been rediscovered in ths vaeiuity of Tucson, Arizona, within a few weeks. Nearly fifteen years ago it was first found, but the men who located the claim were driven from the mountains by hunger and neglected to take accurate bearings of the spot. Since then four or five prolonged attempts to find the rich deposit have failed. Michael Dargan has been arrested in Providence for dragging his wife down stairs by her hair “He is said to be a graduate of Dublin University, a hero who got 5)7,000 for helping capture the rebel ship Circassian, according to the report, which naively adds: “He married twelve years ago a belle of Providence, Nellie Atkinson, and though rum has since changed the noble heatted Irishman into a Piute, she will not desert him, but gets drunk with him.” The Marquis of Huntly, against wtyirn a warrant, precedent to extradition, has been applied for to the Mayor o' London, is the premier Marquis of 8.-otlnnd, and is 34 years old. His fall, which was owing to heavy losses on ou the turf and a consequent plunge into the dead sea of Judaic discount, is much regretted, a* he was personally very popular. He has been married twelve years to the daughter of Cunliffe Brooks, M. P. for East Cheshire, but has had no children. A Quincy, 111. special says: “A good deal of excitement has been occasioned among Jews here by the mysterious disappearance of Bolomon L. Zakikoff, a Russian Jewish fugitive, who arrived three weeks ago. He was twenty-three years old, and has a wife and child and is a laborer. Ou Monday a well-dressed stranger visited him and induced him to go, as is believed, to Chicago to get work. The Jews mink the stranger was an agent of the Russian government here to extort certain secrets that Zahlkoft posM-ses. A boy died in Philadelphia of hydrophobia. In one of his struggles a bit of from his lips flew into his father’s eye. The man had a nervous temperament, and he imagined he had become inoculated with the disease. He felt all the symptoms, gave the peculiar

coughs resembling barks, and writhed in. agony. A physician assured him that hydrophobia could not possibly have developed in a few hours, nor from such a cause, but that made no difference. Powerful doses of chloral were required to quiet him, and he was left almost lifeless by the violence of the attacks

Farm and Workshop Notes.

Chester white pigs have increased in price the past two years s Sepai ate all breeding ewes from the other sheep in the flock until after lambing. Orchard grass, though suitable for orchards, can endure more sun aud drought than blue grass. ? It is a mistake to allow sows to breed before they are at least a year old, as they are-uot sufficiently matured, aud pigs from such are sometimes too weak to live. Nearly all kinds of fruits do well on a mixture of superphosphate aud wood ashts. Lime is not suitable for strawberries, but excellent around apple, peach aud pear trees. If it is desired to change bees from oue locality to another the hives aud boxes should be changed before they are ready to fly out aud become accustomed to the new locality. Grapevines should be pruned as early as the season will permit. If deferred too late they will allow an escape of sap (bleed), even if trimmed a little wnile before it begins to ascend. Like the blackberry, the raspberry bears the fruit upou the cane of the previous year’s growth, which, after fruitage, dies, the new cane oomiug forward for the next year’s crop. By training a pet lamb to come at the call, and afterw’ards putting it with the flock, the owner can call his sheep wherever they hear him, as the pet will come, followed by theother sheep. For theln formation of those who vlue cows that give four pounds of butter per week: It is just as easy to have those that give double that quantity by using Jersey bulls for breedihg purposes. Fine flowers require thoroughly rotted manure and wood mould mixed, aud tomato or other early plants can be grown la ooxes, aud afterward transplanted with better results with such a mixture. One of the mauy cures for roup is to wash the head of the fowl with warm water and afterward bathe it with a solution [consisting of four grains of sulphate of ziuc dissolved in au ounce of water. In cold w’eather eggs for hatching should be collected daily. They freeze easily when exposed, but will retain vtlity for several weeks if gathered as soou as laid aud then kept at a uniform tempeiture. At a recent farmers’ meeting O. A. Judd said he had noticed that w’heu cows aboited the premature calves had uo bones, which led him to think that a deficiency of phosphate in the soil was one fruitful cause of that trouble. Dogs doing damage among sheep have been blessings iu disguise in some sections. The farmers weie compelled for security to hurdle aud house their sheep, the consequence beiug a greater profit from them and an increase of yield from the lands iu crops. Animals often show their excellence through their offspring in one sex alone. Imported Glencoe, one of the grandest thoroughbreds the world ever produced, was a total failure with his sous, but his daughters made good runers and brood mares, one of them being Pochontas (In England,) dam of Stock well, King Tom and Rataplau, and iu this country bis daughters were the dams of Kentucky, Asteroid, Norfolk, Gilroy, and hundreds of other good ones,

Leprosy In Louisiana.

A writer for the Morgan City (La.) Review, who has lately visited the Bayou LaFourche, says: As a companion and myself approached a house below the Cutoff .he told me the entire family were afflicted with leprosy. I saw a man hobble out with a half-sack of rice on his beut shoulders; he was followed by three little children. There was a trading boat coming up the bayou at the time, and so we stopped at the fence, and my companion exchanged a few remarks in French with the unfortunate. One excellent quality about this poor man and his children was the lack of that everlasting trait of the ’Cadin “handshaking.” He didn’t rush up to us and hold out his whole arm, like a Hindoo could, until something happened to lower it, but, instead, he went ou jolting his rice down into his sack, and now and then canting fugitive glances over to where we stood at the fence, beside our horses. When the trading boat tied to the bank, he went on board with his children, and we followed. This man had what is called elephantiasis: his legs and feet were horribly swollen, and were encased in shapeless canvas coverings—neither shoes nor mocCasins. At two isolated, common, novel-looking dwellings my companion pointed, and said: “There is leprosy in there.” But the houses were closed up; doubtless the inmates were out in their little rice patches, and so we rode on. “I’ve hearn that sometimes these poor creature* hail the trading boats for something to eat or to trade with them, and they ‘pass by on the other side;’ is this true?” “You have seen how that family was treated above here. No trading boat shuus them, except the trader is out of provisions or lias a full return of freight; then he don’t stop for anybody.” > “Do any of the children of these lepers attend the public schools?” “No. Though these lepers keep to thems»lves they are all known. One of the/hildren of a leper down here tried to attend school last year, but the pupils all left immediately.”