Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — Page 7

CRIME IN A HOSPITAL.

AN INHUMAN MURDER AT THE RICHMOND HOSPITAL. I ■ ' He Was Too Talkative and a Brutal ■ Attendant Inflicted Fatal njuriee While Others Looked Ou. [— • : ! A Convalescent Fatient Tells the Awful Story, and an Autopsy Completely • Currobera.es H.s Statement. ' Specials to the Indianapolis Sentinel, Tuesday, say: Much excitement prevails .over the announcement that the late Jay Blount, an inmate of the hi ihmood insane asylum, came to his death from the brutal i treatment of an attendant named Woods. 'About two weeks ago it was made known that Blount was dead, but no suspicion oi foul play was thought of until a discharged Inmate named Joseph* Hannon went to Muncie, sought out Lawyer Templer, a ‘former partner of Blount’s, and told a tale which caused Templer, Chief of Police Kobinsdn, Dr. Bowles, and others to go t 0 Richmond and -exhume the body of the icorpse. Hannon stated that Woods bad knocked down Blount, who was obstreper ous, and deliberately kicked him in the aide; that Blount received fatal injuriesfrom the assault. The examination of the •orpse disclosed the fact that five o. Blount's ribs on the left side were broken; that the flesh just over them was fearfully bruised, and that his left lung had been afflicted with ecchymosis, and occupied on iy half of its cavity. The right lung v;anormal. These discoveries tit Hannon’s statement. The Sentinel rcorrespondent called on Supt. Weils at the insane hospital Monday morning, and, in reply to inquiries regard tag the death of Blount at.tha£ institution Bept. 29, he made the following statement. “Thomas J. Blount was admitted here Tue-dav. Sept. 28, 1890, and died about midnight of Monday, Sept. 29, 18 0. He was comparative’.v quiet on entering the hospital, but soon became very boisterous. I saw him the same afternoon he was ad mitted, and found him very weak, unsteady on his legs, loquacious and with a coated tongue. He became more and mw boisterous, his appetite failed bun. and he could not sleep of nights. On Wednesday night a sleeping draught was given him with but little effect, and the s’lne was ordered for Thursday night. On Thursdayevening about 9 o’clock the attendant of the Ward, Charles Tomnkins, reporte 1 to Dr. Driller that Mr. BFunt was not being affected bv the medicine, and that the quantity they had on hand would probable not be sufficient. The sleeping draught was a solut’on of bromide of potassium Dr. Druley then came and consulted me on the adyisnb’litv of efect’ng mornh’a. I accompanied him to the ward, found 'Mr Blount in bod.’Mr. I. A. Wood, the nirht attendant, h 'lding his arms across his breast. Mr. Blount was complaining tha’ the attendant had used him mi''en’!e'minl•nd savin? that ho would not. remain in bed: that he had het'e-beds at. homo. etc. Mr. Woods denied mistreating the natient Fridav Mr Blount, was given a bath hr Mr. John Mvr'h. assistant dav attendant, who stated that he fnunn no hrut’es on the body at that time except an bld one on the leg. ’ ..." “Saturday, dur’ng a tonwo’-a-v atq-'non of the attendant. Mr. Blnunt at,t<“" tn get out. of bqd ami wn« found on the floor B’tndav morning Dr. l’att°rson and rovse!' Visited him and found his vnl=n frill and bounding, making ninetvstwo beats nor pr'nnte, while h ! s tmnnerst.nro was nbo-t jOho . On making maninn’ations of the •ide. Dr. Patterson thnurM. bo fl ( .f,oofpP creo'tus. i. e.. a feeling o* ronehnoss, a« th ou e-h O'' c bon o woue <»ra tin c a<” in st nn ■ ■other, nnobabl v indica'ing a fraotnrn. of a rib. The nhest, W'S also cxtons'x'olv dta coinrod. TJo n w rahldlv worqg bthhdnv nio-bt. about I°, o’c’ock. Tbr (•«*<■ was irnmed’aMtv t-'ves'i-’ated. Pnndav mnrnfncr. nftw flnflin/r tbo prlApnini 7i' rroni+us end flw dtscp’orqiwn of tbe n , ’ost w’f 1 *hn ynsn’t-nbnve And it w ne coneb’d'd. foil "win or h’S flib«.-nAn t don+h that, h’s doa’b yvas caused by inflammation of the lunes.” The doctor had ec'wce’v odishnd whop hwas summoned to .the city: to an-enr at, n legat-Tnvestf’c-nttnn of= the -affairhrlil fore Mavar , Thi°t.l own’to conducted hprosecutin'* Attorney Jackson. When the [nvostieatiorr nd'nnrned all lir>s wore sealed in pnticination of Grand .Tn*”action, but, this m''Ch was loonned. bnw. ever thntc.. V» Templer. of Muncie, Taw, partner of ttp dead mm end who knows - good do-’l more then the rnhllo abort the facts of the erso. did a full share gs the questionin'*, and after the <nvo«ti<*»tio’' ho remarked that the opt’ook -was very • orions for J, A. Words, the attendm*. Woods leftf'e insfituf’cn the Morden sot. Ih’vip'* the ■Srndflv inyrst’eation referred to bv hr. Wells. He «a!d ho wns c-oing t-Loe-nnsnort wbor« be wn» employed in the fTorthorn hospital prior to cnTn’ng here The nutans'’ held at "Blountsville, con clnsivel” thin<*, that Bloop* Was killed bv some one. his side being eoTnnlotolv nnlriflod and the third, fourth fifth and s’xtb ribs broken. The offic'"’ at th° bosnftei pre doing all in their now p to aid in the investigation and Mordav afternoon the parties in the inonlrv vfa’tod the hos’-ftnt and viewed the room in which Blount died. Chief of Police Morr'sey. 1 of ’Loe-ans. port, received a teleernm Monday’ n’p-ht frn*n the atjiorfties at Richmond. Trd.. •skin? him tn arrest I. A. Woods, an at’’ fondant, nt Long Cliff insane ssvlum Woods was found And placed in fail.'"A semnd telegram from Ridhmnnd save that Woo'’s was formerly an attendant in the Richmond a«vlnm. and while in that cann -city he brutally beat T. J. Blount, an in mate, sn bndlv that he d’ed. Woods wr® • een bv a renorter in inil. He sn'd thi* 1 for the lasteight months he has been an attendant at Long Cliff with the exception as onamonth, when he was employed in the Richmond asylum. He said he wa the attendant in the ward in which Blount was confined and kneivhim but never, •truck him or in any wav mistreated him. Woods, was raised in Logansport and is well known. Woods was taken to Richmond. Specials to the Indianapolis Journal say: a moxstkolM chime. On the 2«? d of last month Thomas Jay ’Blount ivas admitted to the Richmond .Hospital for the Insane. He had been of [unsound mind for about tivo years and a (half,and was some eighteen months ago (tinder the care, for a brief time, of Dr. IW. B. Fletcher, of this city, who pit. inounced him incurable, saying a foreign 'substance of some sort was growing on his Ibrain which would eventually kill him.

The patient was taken back to his father's home in Blountville, where he remained until little more tban a month ago, when he was, as noted above, sent to the Richmond Institution. He jjas in poor health, not at all strong, and there is no evidenceto show that he was in any way violent His only offense was, according to the reports of attendants, that he was loquacious and boisterous, not an especially grave crime, it must be admitted. He was given chloral and bromide to induce sleep, this treatment being continued several nightsOn Thursday night, September 23, he complained that an attendant named Woods had abused him, which the latter denied. According to the officials Blount was all right until Saturday, the 27th. when, during the temporary absence of the attendant, he tried to get out of bed, and yvas found on the floor. On Sunday, Sept. 19, they .allege, his condition had changed remarkab'y for the worse, and on Monday, toward midnight, he died. The story told by Thomas Hannon, how. eves, has » decidedly different color. Mr. Hanncn, who came to the institution the same day as did Mr. Blount, was, soon after his arrival, given the liberty of the hospital and discharged Oct. 18 as cured. He was injured by falling out of a barn loft and striking on his head, the injury unbalancing his reasoning powers temporarily, but in no way affecting his faculties of ob nervation or memory. This Dr. Wells frankly admits. Hannon's room was al most directly across thecorridorfrem that of Blount, and upon the night of Friday, Sept. 26, he charges that,, while the latter was standing by his doer in his nightclo’hes, Wctod ordered him to stop talking, and fol.owed up the order with a savage assault. Hannon ran part way across the dormice ry hall which separates the rooms, and says the sight he saw and the sounds he heard he will never forget. The dormi tory is brightly lighted by electricity, in candescent lamps being used, and he could seeinto Blount s room, the'pannels being left out of the doors for the purpose of per. mitting the attendants to watch the pa tients. He heard Blountgasping for breath and crying to Woods not to kill him. Hor rifled and afraid to venture further be.cause of the presence of three other at tendants who stood looking on in stolid in difference, Hannon says he stopped in the center of the dormitory and saw Wood 3 repeatedly kick the limp and prostrate figure of the poor maniac, the sickening sounds of the kicks striking terror to his heart. He said they made a crunching noise, and that when Woods finally desisted Blount appeared pretty nearly dead. How long the victim remained unconscious Hannon does not know, because he ret'red to his room and went to bed. not daring to make any inquiry. He was not sur. prised to hear of Blount’s death, and the scene he had witnessed haunted him from that time on. a —Hannon -was discharged on Saturday, Oct, IS, and went at once to his home at Bentonville, Fayette county, remaining there, however, only over Sunday. His mind was made up, and on Monday morning he proceeded to Muncie, where he knew Blount had formerly been engaged in the practice of law. Seeing the old sign, “Templer & Blount,” he sought Clayton B. Templer, and finding him at the courthouse, told him the story briefly. So imdid it appear that Mr. Templer was reluctant at first to accept it, but Han non was terribly in earnest, and informed him that if no one else pushed the matter he would do so. In fact, he had at first thought of lay ing the case d'reetly before the Wayne county authorities, but bad concluded Mr. Templer could accomplish more toward seeing justice done than he ipould, therefore, went to him. That gentleman hesitated no longer, but had the voart .stenographer of Delaware county take Hannon’s statement in detail, the latter making affidavit to it.

TUB AUTOPSY. The next step was to notify the proses .cuting attorney of Wayne county, Richard A. Jackson, who obtained from «udge Comstock, of the Circuit Court, the assurance that she would summon a special grand jury in order that the matter might >be placed before them without delay. The next step was to exhume the body, which wus done last Saturday. Poor Blount’s remains had been followed to the grave nearly four weeks previous by a large concourse of friends, the bar of Delaware county doing him special honor, never dreaming that in the coffin before them lay the mute victim of an attendant's brutality, a travesty on our vaunted system of benevolence. The autopsy verified Hannon’s story, revealing the crime in all it 3 hidcousness. It is not necessary to make further comment upon what tue autopsy developed. The official finding speaks more loudly than it Would bo possible for any one except the silent vict.m himself -to speak. It is as follows: The body is well preserved. The face is covered nearly all over with green mold; the eye-balls have collapsed; the hair on the scalp is but little loosened; the beard is readily removable. After removing the mold from the face it is not much changed in appearance from that which it would present a few hours alter death, excepting the eyes; there is still decided post-mortem rigidity or rigor mortis; the anterior surface of the body is thickly covered in patches with green and whitemold ; the abdomen is but little distended with gas; numerous yellowish post-mortepi stains are found on the body, and several very dark staiqs are also seen on the left chest wall and on the right chest wall; the nates are flattened out and the skin is beginning to slip from the flesh. On the posterior aspect of ths body post-mortem hypotasis is well marked* on the left lateral asspect of the chest wall seven or eight dark, circular, almost black snots are seen;, on the left chest wall, IK inch to the left of the nipple, is the upper end of what is believed to be an adhesive plaster two and a half inches square, which on beirg res moved discloses a deep ecchymosis which o'eeds when incised; below this last named ecchymosis is a spot four inches square that is less distinctly ecchymotlc, and bleeds slightly when incised; on dissecting the integument of the right anterior surface of the chest a layer of fat is found, and nothing abnormal; on removing tig-

sues from the left side of the chest down to the ribs was found deep ecchymosis from the third to the seventh ribs; the soft tissues were almost pulpified ; on removing the sternum the right lung looks normal and fills the right side of the chest cavity; the left lung does not fill the left side of the chest cavity, and the lower lobe, is firmly hepatized. On, opening the pericardium no water is found in it,, and the heart looks healthy. The third rib is broken five inches from the center of the sternum and the fracture is diagonal; the fourth rib is broken four inches, atid also five and one-half inches from the center of the sternum; both fractures are transverse; the fifth rib is broken five inches from the center of the sternum; the- fracture is transverse ; the sixth rib is broken transversely five inches from the sternum: the seventh rib is broken traversely six inches from the sternum. The surfaces correspond.ng with the broken ribs on the inner aspect of the chest wall are deeply ecchymosed, and the pleural surface of the left chest wall is deeply injected. There were present at the above named autopsy: J. T. Bowles, D. H. Yockey, George Robinson, J. W. Davis, D. S. Lake, Ben Hamilton. Horner Bowles, C. B. Templer and S, M. Drake, and the autopsy was made by myself, with the assistance of Dr. D. H. Yockey. T. J. Bowles.

AT WAYCROSS, GA.

Riot and Dentrueiion of Property—The Militia Called For. A special from Waycross, Ga., on the 21th, says that the riot , which cost two lives, a day or two ago, broke out afresh on tho night of the 25th, when 150 men armed with Winchester rifles, went to Yarn and fired the turpentine still of L. B. Yarn. They also ridd.ed his commiss: iy with bullets, some of which narrowly missed the clerk, who w r as sleeping inside. The party said they intended to return the next night and finish their work of < e struction. Mr, Varn wired Governor G< r don for protection to his property, a d notified Postmastar General Wannauiaacr that be had abandoned the postoffice’ at Yarn in consequence of threats against h.s life. Governor Gordon wired Sheriff Henderson, of Ware county, to hold the militia in readiness to proceed to Varn. No one could furnish any.names.

Paris and London Ways.

In the itreets French traffic all goes to the right; London coachmen drivi always to the left. Parisians live to gether in large houses like barracks Londoners have one family in a house. They have a latchkey; the Frenchmat aconc erge. Paris has its cases» Loir don its clubs. Parisian beds are up in an alcove in the wall: Londoners sleef in the middle of the room. Londor takes three or four meals a day; Parh two. Paris clines; London eats. Parti loaves are long: London loaves arc square. Paris drinks wine; Londor beer. Paris takes coffee; London tea. Frenchmen, while dining, talk to'theii neighbors and en'oy other’s society; Britons sit alone at table and don’l say much, but enjoy their food. Lon don workmen work in their ordin-arj clothes, call each other “mate,’’smoke clay pipes and punch each other’s heads occasionally; Parisian workmen d< their business in blouses, call theii friends “citizens” or “sir,” smdki cigaretts, take their hats off to eact other, and do their fighting with thei feet. .. > e.

G. A. R. Buttons Fraudulently Worn.

People who have noticed the little bronze buttons on the- lapels of the coats of gentlemen they meet commonly suppose that wearers .of the buttons are members of the Grand Army of the Republic. Tae bronze button ought not to be worn by any one else, and the Grand Arnxy as a body does everything reasonable to keep the buttons out of the possession of those not entitled to them. Recently a man wrote to the N. Y. Sun to say that these buttons could be had by any one willing to buy al the pawnshops of New York and Brooklyn. A Sun reporter went tu hajf a dozen New York pawnshops and was unable to buy one. At the pawnbroker’s at Brooklyn end of the bridge and at one Bowery shop he wav told that they sometimes had them on sale. Comrades got hard up and pawned them and failed to redeem them. The price charged by the brokers having them for sale they said was twenty-live cents.

No Worse Fate for a Girl.

We can conceive of no worse fate foi a pure girl than this —to in irry while 4n a dream,says the New York Herald: to exiiggerate a man’s good qualities until nothing else is visible: to minimize his vices untiTThey disappear; tc have a brief honeymoon of measurelesbliss; then to see the man as he is and as others have always seen himcoarse, ponamon, vulgar, vicious, and even cruel; to learn to loathe him because he is a brute; to loathe hersel! because she was such a fool as to throw her life away; to curse her parents be cause they (lid not take her by force nnd throw her into a cell, a dungeon, any place of confinement, until she came to her senses; to be beaten, neglected, unprovided for, sneered al by the man whom she once thought a god—well, to endure such a fate as that is no awful that even human sympathy aVails nothing to assuage the sorrow..

When He Would Believe Him.

One of the witnesses for the defenc in the Circuit court created a smile ii the afternoon by ap ingeneous replj when asked to testify as to the veracitand st riding of a neighbor! ’ asked if he would believe the man unde o th. ••Well, J would believe him if knew what he was saying was true.”--Mila uukee Sentinel. Business Before Pleasure. - The Minister—'"What a pleasure to be pood! Are you good. Tommy?” Tom my—“ No. not very, but I’m going tc turn over a new leaf soon as I lick that Thompson kid—bittiness before pleasure— that s my motto.”

LABOR NOTES.

New York gasfittera are abolishing 1 • ‘lumping.” Cleveland pavers struck against nonunion men. Brooklyn marble-cutters want $4 for eight hours. New York fresco painters are fined $4 for gilding. A travel!ng crane made at Aliance. 0., lifts 150 tons. The State of Ohio has established free labor bureaus. t- Tile-makers will demand -50, $3.50 and $3 a day. Minneapolis city laborers’ wages were increased to $1.75. Women worked in Chicago brickyards during the strike. Spain Socialists have fixed May 1 as a labor holiday each year. The Granite-cutters’ National Union secured nine hours all over. New York building workers won a strike against non-union hands. Some Buffalo bakers were expelled from the union for working Labor Day. Chicago tin-sheet and corniee-work-ers are winning eight hours and 40 cents an hour. Some New York gold-beater won from $4.50 to $6.20, for beating fifty pennyweight. Washington painters, including those on the White House, struck for eight hours and $3. Furniture workers in’a New York shop refuse to do without beer in working hours. It was complained of at the Cincinnati convention that Philadelphia manufacturers were retailing* The unions have induced San Francisco and Oakland breweries to not use Wellington coal during the strike. At Binghamton, N. Y,. sixty of the Cigar mill strikers, including women, have been arrested while on picket duty. The Grand Division of Railroad Conductors has paid off an indebtedness of SII,BOO in a year, and has a large balance in its treasury. John Chinaman has gimp enough to strike. A few of him asked, and got, higher wages for picking grapes in Southern California by this weapon. One of the men shipped from Philadelphia to take work molding, at San Francisco was a striker. He got the whole lot to desert before they got out. For SIO,OOO paid to the union the Rome Bricklayers’ Co-operative ety elected a man to Parliament, Then the Roman Trades Council expelled the bricklayers’ delegate. The Executive Committee of the Amalgamated Railway Servants has decided to send to America a hundred of the men who took partin the unsuccessful strike on the Dublifi, Wicklow & Wexford line. The strike of twenty-five hundred miners in the Irwin mining region, near Scottdale, Pa., continues. The company has evicted the miners from their cottages, and has tried to employ new men, but the work requires so much experience that the new ones have left The Knights of Labor and the Na. tional Progressive Union of the coke regions, Scottdale, Penn., have united and now form a federation twenty thousand strong. They fear opposition -from the operators when they shall present their annual demand next February, and are preparing for a strike. AU boys under sixteen years of age will |be discharged from the Edgar Thomson and the Homestead Steel Works at Pittsburg. This order is an idea of Andrew Carnegi. who has al. ways opposed youth labor. The order will affect many widows who depend on their sons for support. Some 250 boys at Braddock andover 100 at Homestead will be discharged. A number of the clerks and telegraph operators on the Mackey »ailroad lines recently banded themselves In a federation and struck for an advance in wages amounting to fifteen percent., and demanded the reinstatement of one of the office s of their federation who had just been discharged . The company took the matter under advisement, and in the meantime the men obeyed orders and returned to work until the company should make known their decision. Switchmen to the number pf one hundred and twenty-five, who are employed by the Union Pacific Railroad in the yards of that cornpay. at Denver, Col., went out on strike Wednesday because an assistant superintendent, whom they oposed, was not discharged. Theofiicials immediately employed thirty new men and threatened the strikers with permanent discharge if they did not return to their posts within twenty-four hours. Nearly all the freight for interior Colorado passes through Denver, and therefore through these yards, which makes prompt and decisive measures on the part of the company absolutely necessary. The strike of the Hindoo barbers recently announced wai scarcely understood abroad. .It seems that the special symbol of widowhood in India is the shaven bead, which must be kept perfectly bare, untill the poor woman dies. The Hindoo barbers struck against shaving lhe.se helpless, tortured, desp'sed child-widows, and hence the courageous men aimed a blow at once starting and effective against one of the most cruel and inlquitows systems this sin-enrsed world ever knew. By their refusal to follow out the custom they have sacrificed a large per cent of their income, and brought down on themselves the wrath of the wealthy high caste people, who if they ar > determined to have their widows shaven, must send them long

distance to find willing barbers. Five hundred barbers of Guzerati persist in their refusal to aid in perpetuating the disgrace of the unoffending women.

DREAM OF UNIVERSAL PEACE.

Foil Hope of It Being Realized Under Present Conditions. N.Y. Bun. *•- The Universal Peace Congress was opened at London yesterday, Air. David Dudley Field, of New Yorx, as presiding officer. Its designs are eminently . humane, Christian, reasonable, and, consistent with the theory of civilians ’ tion. War is barbarism, savagery; and j you can make nothing else of it. It is wholesale murder, with malice aforethought, and long and careful preparatlom . . . . ''2 j'~ Yet never before in the history of mankind has there been a period wnen the Christian world was so much occupied as it is now in making ready for war. Never before was the business of killing men reduced to so great scientific perfection. More thought in expended on the inspection and con<struction of engines of war than upon the implements of pe .oe. Physics, chemistry, mechanics, all arts and sciences are enlisted for the work of destruction. All Europe is armed to the teeth, and the appropriations most easily obtained from Parliaments are for increasing and strengthening the armaments. New and more powerful guns are invented to displace or supplement guns only recently invented and adopted. Armor grows thicker, Engineering advancement gives constantly increasing speed to vessels of war. New and m ire deadly explosives are brought into the service of the profession of slaughter. VVar rushes forward to seize electricity, the recent discoveries in light and sound, and every invention and improvement that contributes in any way to bring the powers of nature into the service of man. The whole machinery of civilization is brought under contribution to the savagery of war. Even in the Republic, though it is removed from the causes Of contention in tho Old World, we are spending money or getting ready for-war as never before since the settlement of our domestic conflict We are building up a new and great navy, with all the modern improvements. We are testing dynamite guns, pneumatic guns, torpedoes, and torpedo boats; and the strengthening of our defences is a policy upon which there is well nigh unanimous agreement among the people. In one quarter of the globe or another war is going on incessantly, and the chgmces of great conflicts between powers of Europe are always present to the minds of btatesmen. For us,too, there are pending difficulties over the fisheries which may become causes oi war with England. It is by no means impossible that the coming generation will be engaged in a bitter fight between the two brances of the English speaking people. Why else are we building forts and ships and manufacturing guns and torpedoes? If Europe, France will never abandon the thought of avenging Sedan and the capture of Alsace and Lorraine and Russia will not desist from its purpose of advancing into India. The va->t preparations for war in Europe and the more moderate x preparations here to meet foreign aggression, are the practical answer bf the civilized world to the humane propositions of the Universal Peace Congress. That answer is that mankind, at the bottom, loves a fight, and that Christianity and enlightenment have not destroyed the sentiment. It is possible, it is feasible, so far as reason goes, to settle intern itional disputes by peaceful adjudication, as private grievances are settled; but men prefer the method of war. Modern society laughs when two individuals go out to shoot at each other as a metbod of proclaiming their courage and vindicating their honor; but its savage delight in the shedding of blood is aroused when two nations rush to arms against each other for the same purpose. Therefore, we can not expect any substantial results from tbe proceedings of the Universal Peace Congress. The enormous warlike preparations, the vast armaments, 'the! cultivation of the spirit of conflict- incident to the prevailing ambition for athletic eminence, afford little promise that war is to go out of vogue in this century, or t iat even the next century is to witness its disuse as the final method of settling international disputes and .enforcing the claims of international I jealousy. Is this republic goi ig to inhere <se the 250 000,000 in the next fifty years without experiencing the shock of war, and without demonstrating its tremendous brute force on the battlefield?

The Long and Short.

Arkansaw Traveler. '* . _ —1 <*- ■ “Yas, ourn wuz er sorter ou’is family,” said an old negro. “It wuz er fam’ly dat didn’t match somehow.” “All of them different, eh?” “Yes, sah. all mighty diffunt. Dar wuz brudder Jake. He wuz de talles’ man yer eber seed. Dat man! W’y. sah. he wuz so tall dat he nebber eat at de table.” “No. sah. He alius had ter eat offender shelf. Den dar wuz Ned.” “Was he tall?” “No, sah, he wuz de shortes’ man yer eber seed. He wuz so short dat de slack of his bri’ches dragged de groun’. Yes, sah, so short dat he couldn't eat at de lable ” ' . I “Too high for him, eh?” ' -'’Yas, sah. He wuz so short dat he bad ter do ail his eatin’ down in d<* cellar.”

NEW ORLEANS VENDETTA.

Origin and History »C m Organized of Italian Mtirderor*. The killing of Chief of Police Hennessy of New Orleans, by the Matta, an organized band of Italian and Sicilian murderers, has called public attention to the ex. .istence upon American aoU cf a formidable vendetta. Among tbe 2,l<X> Italian* who annually land in ■ New Orleans, are some of the vilest criminals that ever disgraced the handiwork of God. They are banded together in an oath-bound organization, the divulgence of its secrets punishable by death. They set at defiance all law, and ad who incurred their enmity or refused to comply with their demands for money (which were made by command of the society of assassins, countersigned by the skull and crossbones), was marked for murder. During the past few years in New Origans many persons have been shot down n the dead of night by unknown assassins, and all efforts to ferret out the murderer* have beenJutile, as evidence could not be had through fear of assassination. Tbe Metrango-Provenzano vendetta of ast May was so open and outrageous that tbe press and the people of New Orleans demanded the destruction of the banditti and the suppression of the vendetta, in which they were seconded by Mayor Shakespeare, the late Chief Hennessy and his force, the city government and th* ccurts of justice. ———; —- The night attack of the Provenzanq faction, as has been alleged, on the Matrango party was the result of a sued. The former was succeeded by tbe latter as stevedores in the work of unloading fruit vessels at the New Orleans wharf. Hid behind trees, the attacking party opened up fire with blunderbusses (their favorite weapon, loaded with slugs, etc.) on the Metrangos, as they were passing in a wagon. None of tbe party were killed, but some were badly wounded and lost their limbs as a result of tbe skirmish. Arrests followed. Tbe trial, full of sen* sational features, resulted in life imprisonment for six prisoners. One of the. principal witnesses, an Italian, was assinated during the trial. The prosecution was vigorous, and the late chief was an important witness. A new trial, tbe date of which is near at hand, was granted. Hennessy had been active in securingevidence against the secret assassination societies < So he must be removed. The society selected their members to carry out their plans. And was anything more cowardiyt At midnight on the 16th inst. —dark, dismal and raining—the courageous officer was the last victim of th* ban 1 ditti. Armed with shotguns and blunder busses they fired from ambush, In tbo second story of a house, into tbe body of the officer of the law, completely riddling R with bullets, and then made their escape. Tbe country is familiar with the details. Italians and Sicilians who have been arrested from time to time are, as a rule, desperate-looking fellows, of the lower classes, who speak little, if any, English. It is supposed that, in most cases tbe assassins are agents of the society, selected to do the murderous work, and do not per* sonally know their victim. The intense feeling in New Orleans is not to be wondered at. The authorities continue to vig orously prosecute the search for assassins making scores of arrests of Italians and Sicilians daily. The killing of one unde* arrest by a friend of Hennessy’s, in the parish prison, shows to what extremity the trouble may go. Mayor Shakespeare’s call for a Council meeting to con* s'dertbe matter having resulted in a committee of fifty persons being appointed to aid in the werk of bringing'this band to justice, the Mayor’s life has been threatened. They may kill him, but can not frighten him any more Ithan they did the late Chief Hennessy. It is toA>e hoped for the welfare of our fair Southern city and ’ts hospitable people, as well as for the good of our general government, that tho assassins will be apprehended, the band broken up, and drive from the country for. ever the vendetta and banditti. Whether Italians or Siciliana, they are brigands, and as such are a terror to society and a menace to good government.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Rusk said to a reporter on the 22d that he was receiving encouraging reports of progress from Mr. George Sandecs, his special agent in Great Britain, relative to the removal of the British re*» strictions upon the importation of Amerlo can live stock. In a recent report to the Secretary, Mr. Sanders encloses excerpts from the British journals, which give, among other things, the details of the embargo recently placed upon a shipment of Canadian cattle to Scotland. The Secretary said this English account of the incis dent confirms what be has always con» tended, namely,the difficulty of depending absolutely upon a single diagnosis in order to determine whether symptoms of disease indicate the contagious or non-con-tagious pleuro-jneumonia. It was on this ground that the Secretary concluded to adopt the present plan of co-inspection by representatives of, his own department with the British inspectors. The Secretary also said that he thought the action of the British authorities in the Dundee case rather justified the inference that the restrictions imposed and maintained upon American cattle by the British government are due less to any' spiritof unfriendliness, which might lead to discriminations against the United States, than to a positive fear lest through any lack of official vigilance danger to British cattle might ensue, and this naturally leads him to the conclusion that comparatively little difficulty will be experienced in securing theremoval of any restrictions discriminating between American and Canadian cattle just as soon as the British authorities can be thoroughly convinced of the immunity which American cattle notv enjoy from contagious pleuro-pneu-mQnia, and of the ample powers vested in the Secretary of Agriculture to. control .nd eradicate it sb .aid any outbreak or :ur in the future. The Secretary feel ilghly encouraged at. the present stale v da efforts to remove restrictions upon American cattle.