THE REP OR TE R.
JTpKPPKK, f-'a., | J. T. DARLINGTON,
Editor, Attociate Editor
~ THURSDAY, MARCH 14,1878.~
CORPORAL PUNIBBMENT.
The administration of punishment as
(be penalty for violations of law and
commission of crime is not so muoh to
measure out retributive justice to the
offender, as it is fur an example to others,
io the hope of guarding the interests of
society and detering otbeis from a course
of crime. Punishment is, therefore, in
tended to ftevent crime, and 'the most
effective method would doubtless prove
moat satisfactory. The records of our
courts show that lnrceny is the most
prevalent orime throughout the South,
and the question should be, how can it
be suppressed. A majority of those
who steal are persons of vagabocdish
habits, with no self-respect, and whose
characters suffer nothing from the stigma
of a term in the penitentiary In tact |
a thief, too lazy to work, prefcring to
make a living by depredating upon the
property of others, rather looks forward
to the penitentiary as a harbor of rest
from his labors. Two full meals a day
and an ample supply of clothiug does
not impress biui4fcs being severe pun
ishment, and therefore we often see men
who contrive to return themselves to the
State prison a second and a third time.
As the Lumberton Times soys : "What
does a rogue care for going to the peni
tentiary to work out a term of from one
to ten years ? Just so they get some
thing to eat and wear th >y are satisfied,
and no doubt many a one, being scarce
of food, steals something just to be sent
there."
The last General Assembly of this
State authorized the establishment of an
Interior C >urt, to reduoe jail expenses
by providiog for speedy trials for cer
tain offenses. Three fourths of the cases
in this county over which said court
woald have jurisdiction, judging from
past records, would be in charges of
what might properly be termed petit
larceny. Jurors, justices, court officers
and a lawyer, constituting the court, are
paid from the treasury of the county;
and when the criminal is convicted in
nine cases out of ten he regards his as
signment to the penitentiary as a fortu
itous circumßtsnce rather than a sentence
for nunishment. A change in this method
eonld be made, with wholesome effect
If magistrates were given final jurisdic
tion ia all such cases whero property
Ims in value than twenty dollars had
been stolen, a vast amount of court costs
and jail fees would be saved ; and if
thirty-nine lashes was prescribed as a
penalty for every ca-e of petit larcery,
the tendency to diminish that variety of
crime would be instantaneous.
The only effective plea raised sgsinst
the re-establishment of the whipping
post is that while small thieves are pun
ished, those who Bteal large amounts
will escape it. We know in some cases
this view will be correct. Those w: o
Bteal Presidencies willeseape flagelation.
Men wbo steal millions, like the Credit
Mobilier combination, will not be treated
as they deserve But instances of such
gigantic robbery are not of every day
occurrence. The country generally suf
fers mostly from the depredations of
petty thieves, and counties are afflicted
with the costs that prosecutions entail
Men like Tweed, who steal millions, and
those of lesser note who steal thousands,
are generally persons of high and re
respectable family connection, used to
the higher circles of society, and, not
withstanding their guilt, are sensitive
of personal degradation when convicted.
To them the penitentiary presents no
attraction ; on the contrary, it is the
very embodiment of shame, disgrace,
.humility and punishment. Not so with
with petty thieves. The wbippiug-post
alone will tetrorize them.
But souio States distinguish between
petit larceny and grand larceny, punish
ing, each offense in its own degree. For
instance, if stealing to the amount of
twenty dollars or less is petit larceny,
any amount over that sum is grand lar
ceny If thirty-nine lashis is tUe pre
scribed penalty for petit laroeny, grand
laroouy might be punished with thirty-
Bine lashes, and a fine covering the i>uui
stolen, and in default of security for tbe
payment of said fine, an additional
thirty-nine lushes could be administered
within two weeks from date of first cas
tration, and before the prisoner was dis
eharged from custody. If the value ol
the stolen property exceeded one hun
dred dollars, penal servitude for a term
of not less than ten years would illus
trate the truth of the proverb, "Honesty
b the best policy."
We hope tbe next Legislature will re
vive the wbipping-post, and place the
hearing and disposition of petit larceny
&tses within the jurisdiction of justices
of the peace.
Advice to Farmers.
Under the above head we find the fol
lowing article in the Oxford Torchlight
As a general rule, farmers are disinolined
to take advioe from cither books or pa
pers, bat oling with ruinous tenacity to
the customs of iheir forefathers. But
believing that the theory advanced by
our contemporary will apply to Stokes
county as well as to Grauvi le, we give
it for what our farmers may think it is
worth :
"We will arrogate to ourselves the
liberty of saying a word of couusel to
the farmers of Notih Carolina. The
advice which we propose to give is gra
tuitous and will apply to farmers in other
than tobacco districts. The advioe
which wo give you is to make your
breadstuff*, bacon, etc, at home. It
will not do t• depend upon buying corn
and wheat, even if tobacco does seetn
ingly pay better. Make a little less to
bacco and it will, by reason of not being
so abundant, bring a higher price per
hundred pounds, liaise your own pork
even if you can buy Baltimore bacon for
less than you ouu raise it. There is no
r.eason that the farmers or other citizens
of (pranville should buy a inulo or|n
horse not raised at home Let some of
our fanners raise stock for this market.
They can make money selling Granville
raised mules at $75 to SIOO per head,
and horses at SIOO to $125 pe: head
These prices may seem high, but very
few farmers in this secticn would sell a
3-year old mule ior less than from $75
to SIOO each, unlcsg below average in
size and style, and oftentimes they ask
a* high as $l5O for a 3 year old horse of
fiir form and size. The tax on farmers
of buying horses and mules that should
be raised at home is enormous. We
hope to see this leak stopped The
remedy for the evil is attainable, and
should be applied "
The Clock Strikes One 1
One year ago to-day Rutherford B
Hayes took the o:tth of office as President
of tho United States. The fourth of
March last year came on Sunday. Mr.
Hayes took the oath stealthily, in the
evening. He knew—for he must have
known—full well that his title to the of
fice was vicious ; hence, although it was
Sunday, he and his advisers did not
deem it safe for him to go to sleep that
night without having tiken the oath
A guilty conscience needs no accuser,
and Mr. Hiyes, although standing on
the very threshold of the White HoOse,
knowing that he had no right to be there,
was fearful lest some slip might occur
Kofnrn hfl should get inn. and it
was thought prudent to take every pre
caution, and to incur no unnecessary
risk.
The day following, Monday, Mr. Hayes
repeated the oath of office in publio,
very few knowing at the time, that be
had taken it in private the evening pre
vious.
One year, of the four for which Mr
Hayes assumed the office, has now passed
It is not too mnch to say that it leaves
bim in a position never before occupied
by any man holding the office of Presi
dent of the United States. He is, in
almost literal truth, without a party and
destitute of friends—an object of ridi
cule to Democrats and of pity and con
tempt to the Republicans who voted for
bim If a National Convention of the
party which supported him were to be
oalled to morrow to name a candidate for
his successor, it is quite safe to say he
oould not obtain one solitary Vote for re
nomination.
The year that lias just elosed has not
been barren of progress toward the un
seating of Mr. Hayes from his office.—
Mr. Justice Strong of the Supreme Court
of the United States, whose vote, as
a member of the Electoral Commission,
plaeed Mr. Hayes in the Presidency,has
expressed the opinion that his title rested
solely on a technicality, and that he was
not lawfully elected. Ooe of the publio
officers wbo concocted the fraudulent re
turns ia Louisiana by which Mr Tildes
was cheated out of the Presidency and
Mr. Hayes put in has been convioted of
forgery and sentenced to two years in the
Penitentiary. f
The voice of the pablin press is sl
most unanimous against Mr. Hayes.—
Such Republican journals as the New
York Timet and the New York Tribune
represent him as isolated, friendless, and
powerless.
The verdict of the country is appar
ently made up—that Hayes is incompe
tent, and that bis title to the office is
vicious.
Judging from the advance wbioh has
been made by the Opposition to Mr.
Hayes in twelve months' time, be would
be deemed a bold prophet who should
predict that the Fraudulent President
will be permitted to rstsin his office three
years longer. We look for further very
damaging disclosures in the oear future
—threatened oonfessious already fill the
air; while the feeling grows daily and
hourly stronger and wore strong that the
mau who came into the offioe of Prasi
dent by fraud has been in long enough.
—X> a- fork SIIII, March 4th.
The Views of a Citizens.
BEAVER ISLAND, Stokes Co., N. C.,}
March 8, 1878. j
Editor* Danbury Report«r :
As you profess to take great interest
in county matters, especially in both
general acd special improvements, also
in some special fioancial projects, etc.,
will you not allow us in the most friendly
and huuible manner to make some sug
gestions, which might be of interest to I
some of your numerous readers in the !
county, if it does not seem practicable i
to yourself. In the first place, we would
call your attention to tbe condition of |
the public roads and streets in and about
Danbury, as well as in other localities.
Would it not be of more general inter
est to have well worked and advantage
ously laid out streets and public roads,
and have them unobstructed by un
sightly wood piles,lieaps of stones, and
old dilapidated vehicles, etc., as some of
the streets of Danbury are, than to be
occasionally calling attention to some old
shop, which we might consider a inonu
meat to aomp of your industrious
decessors ? The roads leading to your
town, which in most instances follow the
old (Indian trails, beaten perhaps centu
ries ago, might occupy your utttention I
for a short space, and we might have an
occasional appeal to somebody of our
boasted age of modern improvements.
1, for one, am firmly of the opinion
that better and more systematically laid
out roads to the Court House is an actual
necessity of the times. If you remem
ber some years back, there was no little
talk about moving tbe publio buildings
trom Danbury. T.his feeling may have
partially subsided, but I can assure you
that if there is not more interest taken
in constructing roads leading to Dan-'
bury, the feeling that was onco agitated
cannot remain dormant much longer. It
is slumbering now, and if it should agaiu
be stirred up, it will not so easily snb
side.
You have made some suggestions as
to a bridge across Dan river. It is not
a bridge that the general public most
desire What would it profit an indi
vidual to cross a bridge and then plunge
into a mud-hole or deep gully, and run
the risk of being thrown down a preci
pice ? Let us have roads and streets
first; then it would be time enough to
talk about building a bridge, that would
cost probably more than it would to build
a now (3>urt H >use and Jail on a more
accessible, aud we tuight say a more
comely site. It does seem to me that
property owners in i anbury are inter
ested in this matter, some way or other.
Secondly, you have of late been giv
ing your undivided attention to s>meof
our public servants; to which I do not
object in the least. But, Messrs. Edi
tors, are you not a little ecceDtric in your
criticism* ? Are there no other public
officers io Stokes whose public and offi.
cial actions would bear scrutiny ?
would they not justify public condemna
tion ? They were elected as Democrats,
received the arduous support of the ed
itors of the REPORTER, and it may be
not a little from your most humble cor
respondent ; yet their actions are allowed
to quietly pass, and not a word is pub
lished concerning them.
Could you not give us a slight sprink
ling all around, if in your opinion it
would be of any advantage, as you pro
fess not "to \}e at the behest of any party,
clique, monopoly, or other combination 7"
It does seem to me that the local columns
of the REPORTER might be filled for
weeks from some such subjects, etpec
tally in thoe hard timet f r old Slokei.
We, as Democrats, should remember
that it is in our hands, as a party, to
better the condition of our internal or
local affairs; and if we do not at least
attempt such a thing, we will t>e justly
held responsible for it by the people at
the ballot-box. No public servant should
fail to recieve a just condemnation from
the publio press for his malpractice in
office. Probably if it had not been for
some such things the Democratic party
would remain aa firmly planted in the
breasts of the people of Stokes as your
native Sauratown mountains that tower
above your little village. Let every
man have fair play.
So wa'e up, Messrs Editors. Let us
have some suggestions pointing to a gen
eral improvement of our roads and
water fords, at least. Do not let per
sonal animosities, and some particular
friends hankering after somebody's old
shoes, entirely absorb your attention from
thisooe important matter of publie in
terest. It might look a little picayunish
to occupy too much time with "oheap
Johns" and "dirt throwers," to tbe ex
elusion of some others Let us hart a
few stone* now, and let them be well
aimed. It might be beneficial in the
end. Yours, respectfully,
!'***«*
Negro boys Bell young alligators for
pi.ts in the streets of New Orleans.
A Theory About Wells.
The theory is advanced by General
Gibson, a Louisiana Representative in
Gongrew, that J. Madison Wells is in
sane, says the Philadelphia Time*. The
plea is plausible, and tho position is much
more tenable than any that has been ad
yanoed by his friends, among whom,
happily, General Gibson is not number
ed. Certainly it is the most charitable
way for accounting for bis long oareer.
It is an error to suppose that Mr. Wells
has none bat a Returning Board notor
iety. His name has long been conspio
uous in the criminal calendar of Louis
iana. Many years ago he was short in
his accounts as sheriff of Rapides parish
to the amount of $200,000 or there
abouts. lie now has a claim for $656,-
000 before the Southern Claims Commis
sion, which the Legislature has pronounc
ed fraudulent and based on perjury.—
May not this have been the fruit of a
diseased mind? A few years ago two
stolen mules were traced to his planta
tion, and when the overseer was offered
fifty dollars to point out. the animals it is
related that his reply was : ''Doui mu'ea
is on de place, but 1 ain't gwine to pint
'em out for no money.- D,: fac is Massa
Madison is a great rascal, but he is good
to old Robin and I ain't gwine agin him.
And I tell you dis, if all de mules on
dis place was pinted out dat don't belong
here there wouldn't bo more nor three
left." The theory of insanity would fully
explain this remarkable disposition to
stock his plantation at other people's tx
pense. Tlio cold blooded mutder of
Matt. D'Espalir, an unarmed neighbor,
by J. Madison Wells, is one of the black
est spots on Lis character. Insanity,
however, is a cloak broad enough to cover
this spot. Then, when we come to lhit:k
of l>is viiulent temper as displaced last
Winter, and his attempt to brain Da\id
Dudley Field in u committee room, bow
well this plea fits. And how else cau his
persistence in forgery and pcrjiry to
keep die Democrats from controlling
Louisiana, notwithstanding their right
ful majority, be expUiucd to the satis
faction of any rational being not already
convinced ttiat he is a bold, bad uiau '!
The plea of insanity is a strong one.—
Let the defense rest its case thou.
Ruth and Jacob.
1 ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS WANTED FOR A KISS
THE OLTOKK OF KRBEKAII.
' Galesburg, 111.. Feb 22 —ln the Cir
cuit Court to-day the case of .Maltha J.
Cliue against Henry Soldwell for SI,OOO
damages, was heard. This was a ease ol
trespass upon the person. Tho parlies
are members of the Older of Odd Fel
lows in Yates city.
On opening the case Attorney Wil
loughby stated to the jury that the crime
charged against th> defendant was "kiss
ing the oomplainant in the dark without
her consent." Mrs. Cline complainant,
was the first witness sworn, and testified
substantially as follows: On the 22d
day of December, 1875, she attended a
meeting of Odd Fellows at Yates City,
Henry Soldwell belonged to the lodge,
and she was a member of the Order of
Kcbckah At the close of the but in ess
meeting the brothers ai.d sisters of the
lodge indulged in a social game of liuih
and Jacob. Soldwell was Jacob and she
was Ruth. In this game Jacob took un
warrantable liberties with Ruth, *que> Zed
her hand, ctfased her behind the door,
and made an assault with attempt to kits.
On the same evening about 11 o'clock,
her husband not being in attendance a'
the lodge, Soldwell acted as her escort
home On the way, when near her res
idence, he threw his arm around her and
kissed her three times, right there in the
dark. She —all th« time resisting—freed
herself from hisembraoe and ran homo
alore. Mrs. Cline's husband, thirty
years her senior, testified that lie was
sitting on a pile of lumber near his
house, waiting for his wife to come a'ong
with some of tbe neighbois, and, al
though it was dark, be was sure he saw
the faces of defendant and complainant
in very close proximity ; that she left him
and ran into the house, and on his
(Cline's) giing in his wife told him all
about Soldwell insulting her. The de
fence olaimed that it was a pure crse of
blackmail. Cliue owed Soldwell $625
This morning the jury, after being out
eight hours, brought in a verdiot for the
defendant.— L'hicoyo Timet.
A correspondent at Cleaveland Mills
writes to the llaleigh AVtc» ; Martin
Ledford, a young married man of Cleave
land county, a class leader, and the son
of a local minister, eloped last Sunday
night with a young woman, Julia John
son, taking with him all the hotter part
of his household goods, including his
wife's clothes, and leaving her and one
child (the only one) to the «old charities
of the world. Hia wife is an orphan,
without either father, mother, siater or
brother. When last heard from, they
were in Rutherford oounty, winging
their way towards Tennessee.
Perfidy, Jealousy, and Murder.
A FAITHLESS WIFE AND HBR PARAMOUR
LOCKED UP IN A N EBRASK A JAIL.
SIDNEY Feb. 26.—Charlie Philips
suddenly disappeared from tbe ranch ol
It. J. Walroth, a wealthy tttock
who lives about five miles this side of
Big Spring*, the scene of the Union Pa
cific express robbery. Philips had been
engaged OD the farm for a year past. He
was 18 or 20 years of age, sober, and in
dustrious. Walroth, being absent from
home a great deal, conferred upon Philips
the authority to look after his inter »ts
at the ranch.
Mrs. Walroth is D-it more than twenty
one years of age, full of blood, and a lit
tle given to flirting. Walroth suspected
an illegitimate intimacy between his wife
and Philips, and to guard bis home from
dishonor during his long trips to other
parts of the Stale, he engaged Harr
Duboise to live at the ranch and do gen
eral work. This was about nine months
ago, Duboise is a fine-looking fellow,
twenty one years old. dresses well, and is
a printer by trade, well educated, and
polite. He outshone the other fellow,
and the fickle and faithless wife trans
ferred her affceti ns from the first to the
last employee of her husband. Jeal
ousy prompted Philips to threaten her
exposure to bur Lusbaud,
On Suuday last Mrs. Walroth con
fesaed that she knew where Philips was;
that he had been murdered and the body
thrown into tho rivtr, and that the deed
bad been done by Harry Duboise. She
said that on the day before Philips was
to be sent away he had threatened to tell
her husband of her shame, and *he told
Duboise of it, aud told him he must kill
Philips. Then they arranged a plan to
entice him away from the house and
murder him. Duboise called him out to
the stable, at 10 o'clock that night and
told him that he (Duboise) was a meui
ber of the gang that robbed the express
train at Big Springs; that 820.000 ol
the gold was buried on the lands of the
I'latte river, which is only three hun
dred yards from Walioth's house, lie
told Philips that SIO,OOO of the money
belonged to one of the robbers who had
escaped the officers, and the remainder
belonged to himself. He had advices to
the effect that the unknown robber would
return the next day for the money, and
proposed to Philips that they should go
immediately, dig up the money, and gel
away with the cash, each taking half.—
Philips consented, and they started at
tiiiduight. Wlule they were treading a
narrow path by th) river bank where it
whirls in deep eddies in its sandy bed
Duboise siltutly dropped behind Philips,
aud firing with a revolver, struck him
centrally In the back of the head, the
bullet coming out between the eyes.—
I Then Duboiue filled his victim's pockets
with sand and threw tbe body into the
' river.
Duboise and Mrs Walroth were lodg
ed in Sidney jail yesterday, Philip's body
was found in the river, half a mile below
the scene of the murder.— Omaha ller
aid.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
STATE NEWS. .
Kerosene oil sells at Charlotte for 14
cents H gallon.
The fishermen of the eastern counties
have begun active operations.
The banks pay 93 cents for the Mexi
can dollar —pay it out for 100 ceuts aud
reluse to take it for deposit.
Milton Chronicle : Some men ' too
poor to take a paper" are not too poor to
waste one hundred dollars a year on
drinks.
The Coneord Register says there is a
man and woman straying around passing
themselves off as a Baptist minister and
wife, who are impostors.
North Carolina sends peanuts to Italy,
where they are fed to young Indies about
to make their debut as opera singers.—
Tbe oil of peanut greases tbe high notes.
There is such an excitement and
alarm in McDowell count; on account of
the exiatenoe ol hydrophobia, (hat the
town marshal of Marion has been in
structed to kill every dog seen in the
street for the nest twenty days
The Milton Chronicle tells this one;
Perxon county boasts of a dame who pulls
down 215 lbs, and who gave birth to a
child on Saturday, another on Sunduy,
another on Monday, another on Tuesday,
another on Wednesday, and one on
Thursday Four of them are living and
doing well.
Tho Monroe Exprets wants the far
rners of Union county to stop tho culti
vation of the fleeoy staple and devote
their energies to tobaoco, and oites an
iustance where a citisen of that county
sold tobacoo raised from one acre for
9305. at a time when the price is lower
than it ever has been before.
On Monday last officer Andrews, of
Chapel Hill, attempted to arrest Cass
Merritt for brutality to his wife, when
Merritt drew an axe and threatened to
take the life of Andrews. Andrews
drew his pistol and Bred on Merritt, but
missed him. This brought the rascal
to terms and he was taken in custody.
Near Indian Trail, in Bandy Ridge
township, Union county, Mr«. l'bos. Ivey
was severely injured by a tree being ent
down across the honse. The bouse was
just about completed and some one fell
ing a large tree near by allowed it to fall
io the wrong direction The injured
lady was cot killed immediately, but was
not expected to recover from her io
juries. i
There is said to be at Murray's Shop,
near Bcrea, Grinville county, a sign-post
of heart sassafras, which trudition says
wus put up by the colonial authorities
when the road was cot by them from
Bnth to the Swaratown settlement during
the reign of George ll—long before the
Revolution.
GENERAL NEWS.
Some of the young members of a church
in Tunbridge, Vt, got themselves into
troubla by turning a prayer meeting into
a kis&ing party.
Cumberland, Maryland, has • law un
der which all boys under 16 yesrs of age
will be arrested when found loitering on
tbo streets after 8 o'cl >ek at night.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines 830,000 from
the city of Baltimore by the decision io
a recent suit. She expect) to attack
Kalamazoo, Michigan, next.
A family near Evansville, Ind , con
sisting of father, mother, and son, have
all committed suicide within the past
four months. *
EVienecer Haskell of Philadelphia has
expressed in his trill a desire to be cre
mated, and placed, in the form of ashes,
under a rose bush.
It snowed once in Lisbon, Portugal,
during the past winter for the first time
since 1840. Similar slight falls occured
also in 1837 and 18H9.
It is Pr. Fordyce Barker's opinion
thai city wotueri are healthier and hand
somer than country wouien, as a result
of better food and more diversion.
A young woman of Newgurg, Wis , se
verely thrashed her faiber because he
would not raise 8500 to give her as a
dowry, in older to uiarry a man who
wanted his wife to have that com.
Mr. Henkle, of Maryland, Monday,
introduced a bill for the relief of Samuel
l\ Mudd, of Maryland, the physician who
gave professional assistance to Booth af
ter he killed President Lincoln.
Mary Keneally is only 17 years old.
yet she has been arrested eleven times
fur drunkenness in Full River. She ia
well-behaved when sober, but oannot re
sist her appetite for strong driok.
The art of cutting and polishing dia
monds tlmt had so long been monopo
lized bv Amsterdam experts, has been
brought to the New World, and is now
successfully practised by young women
in Bo»ton.
A certain tenor singer, whose name ia
not menliiined, is, according to the Drx
mntic New*, compelled by his jealous
wife to telegraph to her daily during his
(ours, as an at-aurance that he is not for
getting ber.
There are about one hundred men in
ihe South who were pensioners as veter
aus of the war of 1812, and because of
their participation in the late war, were
stricken from the pension roll. The Sen
ate has passed a bill to restore
names to the roll.
The convict choir at Auburn prison is
a remarkable musical organization. The
organist is sentenced for grand larceny,
the first violin, the first tenor and doable
bass arc murderers, the second tenor,
basso, and sopranos are all burglars, and
the professor if a forgur.
Daniel McFarlsnd, who was tried and
acquitted in this city eight years ago on
a charge of murdering Albert D Rioh
ardson, is or wag recently an empl >yee
in a wagon factory at South Bend, Ind.
Ha is siid to be a hard drioktr and of
vagabondish propensities.
A monument to John C Breokioridge
is proposed in Kentucky. The Legisla
ture of that State has incorporated an
association whioh will colleot foods for
the purpose, and a bill appropriating $lO
- for the monument has beeo passed
to a jocond reading.
A newly-invented car for testing the
strength of bridges is to be used in Con
necticut. It contains an immense tank
filled with water. In oase the bridge
gives signs of weakness the movemeat'of
a levey opens the sides of the tank, and
the water instantily poors oat, relieving
the bridge of 80 toos weight.
In China criminals are permitted to
hiie substitutes to be punished in (Mr
stead. The tame practice has been at
tempted in Reno, Nevada, Ah Cbonaj
murdered a fellow oountryman, and vaa
arrested ; but by paying a Sheriff SSOO,
another Chinaman waa substituted for
HI ID , the latter agreeing to take the ohaaM
of hanging for a specified sun. Ah
Choney was deteoted before be oonld get
oat of the plaoe, and the Sheriff was also
put under arrest.
David M. Brewer refused to marry
>liss> Ely tics, in Ni'hville, after a eoart
ship of several yvurs. The jilted girl'a
mother put a revolver into her pooket,
ind went out. tn gid Brewer. He bad
been informed of her murderous ioten
tion, and on meeting her in the street,
he dodged behind a friend a»d oloag
tightly to him. The friend did not like
the danger of being a barricade, and ea
caped from it by slipping oat of his ov«
erooat which he left in Brewer's hands.
Then Brower ran with all his might and
Mrs. liynea ohased him, while kaepteg
up a scattering fire with the revolver.—
She was st last captured bj a polios
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