St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 9, 1879
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* =~ JOHN A. DILLON and JOSEPH PULITZER. _ general settlement. with the Black Hawk War, which cost 400 a * „ St TLmnis Post-Bispateh PUBLISHED BY RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. The TOst-DisPATCH win be delivered by carriers to any part t the city, or sent by mail, postage pre- paid, to subscribers in any part of the Union, on The carriers will collect the city subscriptions on ~ their routes; all subscriptions by mail must be pre- raid, and annual subscriptions will not be considered ubless accompanied by the money. THE SATURDAY POST-DISPATCH. On Saturday the POST-DISPATCH is pub- lished as a six-page paper, with full reviews of all the events of the week and a choice selection of reading matter. making it the most popular aad serviceable WEEKLY PAPER published in St. Louis. Sebscriptions to the SATURDAY POST-DIS- PATCH will be received at the rate of $1 00 per annum, in advance. Single copies, 5 cents. Addre 88 POST-DISPATCH, 111 North Fifth street. St. Louis. INDICATLONS. By Western Associated Press. WASHINGTON, May 9.—For Tennessee and Ohio Valley, northeast veering to southeast winds, increasing cloudiness, slightly warmer weather, stationary or falling barometer. For Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Val- leys and Upper Lake Region, falling barome- ter, warmer south and east winds, cloudy weather and numerous light rains. For Lower Lake Region, southeast to south- west winds, partly cloudy weather, rising, possibly followed by falling barometer, stationary or higher temperature. Rivers will continue falling, except rising at Shreveport. Toe Post-Dispatcu is the only even- ing paper in St. Louis * Ys . 2 limited to the enforcement of this guaran- tee.“ In the same decision the following interesting viewof the relations between the State and the Federal Govern- Court gave the ment: We have in our political system a Govern- ment of the United States, and a Government of each of the several States. Each one of these governments is distinct from the others, and each has citizens of its own who owe it | allegiance, and whose rights within its juris- | diction it must protect. * * * The people | of the United States, resident within any State, are subject to two governments, one State and the other national, but there need | be no conflict between the two. The powers | which one possesses the other does not. They | are established for different purposes, and | have separate jurisdictions. * * * The Government of the United States is one of delegated powers alone. Its authority is de- finedand limited by the Constitution. All | powers not granted to it by that instrument | are reserved to the States or the people. No rights can be acquired under the Constitution | or laws of the United States except such as ord _ exemption from discrimination in the exer- Joyal Republican Kansas forcing the negroes | to stay and the white stalwarts and Grant- | the Government of the United States has the authority to grant or secure. All that can | not be so granted or secured are left under the protection of the States. Still more precisely and however, did this Court decide the point in the following: We hold that the Fifteenth Amendment | has invested the citizens of the United States with the new constitutional right. which is unmistakably, | Republican Supreme cise of the elective franchise on account of | race, color, or previous condition of servi- | tude. From this itappesrs that the right of suffrage is not a necessary affribute of nation- al citizenship; but that exemption from dis- crimination inthe exercise of that right on account of race, etc., is. The right to vote in the States comes frum the States; but the right of exemption from the prohibited dis- | crimination comes from the Unted States. The first has not been granted or secured by the Constitution of the United States, but the last has been. But the other assumption or assertion in the Women’s Platform, that the right to vote is ‘created by the Constitution of the State,“ is equally wrong. The Constitution is cre- ated by the voters, not the voters by the Constitution.. The right to vote existed long before any constitutions were framed, long before States became first States and then a Union. The right to vote is, as the very name implies, a privilege, not inherent, but acquired and conferred. Of course, it is | conferred or acquired according to law and subject to conditions. All sorts of condi- tions can be and actually are exacted. In one State it is the possession of certain property, in another the possession of cer- tain education, in many the possession of character—where a person convicted of crime! loses the right to vote—in others even a certain social and mental standing— for this itis when idiots, imbeciles an paupers are disfranchised—in alla certain residence and a certain sex. The United States have nothing whatever to do with the voters exeept to prohibit under the Fifteenth Amendment any discrimination by the States on account of ‘‘color, race or previous condition of servi- tude.““ But this is the only discrimination which the United States prohibits. If the States desire, they could establish: other conditions or discriminations with perfect propriety. Any State, for instance, could establish either an educational or property qualification, even the | our | her | houses of Congress are Democratic. [Great and long continued ap- | % as. | Dined vote All it did | 3 1 un or ie | backers, last fall, was 378,895 against 319, was to prohibit any discrimination by the | ‘ . ee = _ of the | its own creation in | wnt | States as Pennsylvania, Michigan and IIli- nois, decided | ln eat | which Mr. Tilden received over Mr. Hayes. National Government is | | ceived | Special to the Post-Dispatch. that over two thousand delegates will | day-school and Miss Belle Corman, a leading belle of the Bloomington bar, has announced his name | as a Republican candidate for Circuit Judge of | the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. S. Ewing being the Democratic nomince. editor of the Delavin Times, | wards discovered that Courrier was no other bet thirds of the voter 2 gee “6 use a Wall street phrase, the Repub ty bas wateréd the stock of suffrage too much already. H the Republic needs any- thing badly it is not more, but better vot- ing. The ballot-box can not be improved by numbers, but by intelligence. FACTS VS. FROTH. A foreigner arriving in New York who reads the violent harangues of Republican partisan journals like the Tribune, and the speeches of such „great“ statesmen as Conkling, would be sure to think that this country is largely Republican, and that the Democrats form but a small minority of the population. But nothing can be a greater mistake. Nothing can be more striking than the difference between the loud and windy abuse of these Republican journals of the Democratic opposition, and the solid, though silent facts their own almanacs con- tain. An appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober, or from Tribune froth to Tribune facts, is amusing. Here we have, for instance, the very latest issue of that Re- it are some figures which may have general interest to those who insist that the Gov- ernment must remain inthe hands of the Republican party and that the „people“ mustnexer trust the Democracy — never. These flgures show, of course, that both But they also show that but for the infamous gerrymandering by Republican Legislatures of such great States as New York and Penn- sylvania, for instance, the majority in the house would be twice as large. They show that of the thirty-eight Governors of States nearly a majority of two-thirds are Democrats And in Governors, like Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan, the combined vote of the opposi- In Pennsylvania, for instance, the com- of the Democrats and Green- 490 Republican vetes, or a majority of nearly 60,000 against the Republicans, who yet, by a division of the opposition, control the State. In Illinois, for instance, the ers cast 58,125 votes last year, which, added yreenback- to the Democratic vote, would carry the State overwhelmingly. In Michigan the Republicans cast only 45 per cent of the total vote, while the Democrats cast 29 per cent and the Green- backers 26 per cent. So that, even in such where the Republicans are still in power, they are a minority. But when the Presidential vote is consid- cred, the terrible distrust of Democracy by the people becomes still more apparent. It was shown by the majority of 250,807 votes whose popularity after Grant, about the said, in much is re- 3,000,000 1868, But the Democratic war about SO votes and 3,597,070 in 1872. candidate in 1876 who was counted out, re- ceived, even aecording to the Tribune A- manac, 4,284,757, or 700,000 votes more than Grant ever received. There is a good deal of almanacs. encouragement even in Republican BLOOMINGTON BUDGET. Sunday-School Convention—Wedding— Personal, Etc. BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,May9.—Extensive ar- rangements are being made for the State Sun- day-school Convention, which meets in -this | city on the 12th, 15th and 14th. It is expected be Dr. Vincent, the well known Sun- worker, and other prominent speakers in the West are expected to be pres- ent. Dr. W. H. H. Adams, president of the Illinois Wesleyan University, this city, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Method- ist Church of Champaign. The accept- ance of the call will not interfere with Pres- ident Adams’ duties at the university. Last evening a high-toned and fashionable wedding occurred here, the con- tracting parties being Newton B. Stouffer, a well-known business man of Bloomington, present. Bloomington society. Hon. John E. Pollock, a leading member of Hon. James Arrangements are being made for celebrat- ing Decoration Day. Through the efforts of Mr. Joseph C. Reed, he has ascer- tained the correct name of the unfortunate victim who committed suicide au the Delavin House a few nights ago. He had registered at the hotel under the name of J. B. Currier, of Chicago, and after death there was nothing to be found on bis person which would lead to any cue as to who his friends and relatives were except a photograph which had been taken by an artist in Pontiac, Ill. It was soon after- person than J. C. MeMillian, formerly a very wealthy citizen of Pontiac, who a few years ago was worth $80,000, but lost his fortune in riotous living. — — ——— AMUSEMENTS. HOME OPERA. Last night the Opera-house was well filled on the occasion of Mr. Waldauer’s benefit. It was the first production of ‘‘Norma’’ this season by the St. Louis Operatic Company and the performance was in every way highly successfully. Mrs. Peebles and Miss Georgie Lee received enthusiastic applause for their splendid sing - ing and acting. Mr. Cunningham deserves high praise for his artistic rendering of Oroveso. Mr. T. C. Doan was suffering from hoarseness and he was not at his best. To- night II Trovatore’’ will be given for the last time. Every one should see Miss Minnie Curtis’ impersonation of Azucena. To-morrow there will be a matinee, when ‘*Norma’’ will be the programme. CAPTAIN MARTIN’S BENEFIT. On Saturday evening a grand complimentary benefit has been tendered to Capt. Geo. D. Martin, who for such along series of years has been intimately connected with the thea- trical interests of this city. The benefit was an entirely spontaneous affair which originated with = Martin’s magy friends, who deemed that bis services in the promo- tion 8 e in 1 city were worthy of recognition. capital programme has been prepared for the occasion, and Capt. Martin's many friends will be sure to rally round him and give him a bumper. The entertainment wiil consist of the cele- brated drama, The Hidden Hand;’’ Mr. Charles Vivian (late of the Standard Theater Pinafore Company), in a selection of original songs, sketches and anecdotes, introducing his famous imitation of ‘‘Oratorio’’ and Charles Dickens’ ‘‘Artful Dodger,’’ Mr. L. T. De Plamval, who will 450 **Tl Balen, from Verdi’s Trovatore, and W. H. Stanley, the celebrated —— tenor, for - merly of the Kellogg English opera and late of the Emma Abbott Concert will siny, by fall.“ drom W ntana. —Jobn " G. Whittier writes e poem | entitied 3 to-day. , ot ae . | Yes, of the thirty-eight States, twenty-three gallantry or proper appreciation of the fair | g f l Os ‘ Y ;, are Democratic gorernors to-day. mistaken ideas so | some of the States that have Republican street, and : and Te Took Me Ia; but * a 75 10 * ak * =o te FE Mies r * yee Bo eet ees 2 er" 3 7 9 e „ Ar 9 „ ie * wey > Pe era Qo ee et > oe CPL ee et eek. Pee, FM ö 2 ™~ = oe. 2 0 . ng ' Fad * 8 1 2 95 4 7 3 : g Bay , a n i *＋ * * „ * * * Father Killed by S6h and Daugh- , petty robberies, as well as great defalcations, result from a desire to play without means, and in most cases no other inducement could be the occasion of temptation. It is safe to say that keno causes more dam- age than all other species of gambling com- bined; that its repression will cause proba- bly two hundred young men to seek other em- ployment than that of raising a stake to pam- per a hideous monopoly which it were base flattery to call rohbery. Turning to the so-called SQUARE FARO GAMES, we find the following firms engaged: James Ames & Co., 112 N. Sixth. Gibson, Cave & Co.. 114 N. Sixth. Manning, Grider & Kerrick, 204 N. Sixth. Timmons, Gheens & Co., 214 N. Sixth. Foster, Tarrence & Co., 604 Washington avenue. Henry Perrit & Co., 214 N. Fourth. These are all what are termed quarter“ (250 chip) games, and have a steady run of business, but not excessive, as the number.is as many as can well get business. The scarci- ty of money in general circulation and the dullness of times are evinced by general light betting. The expense of one of these estab- lishments runs from $400 to $500 per month, while the receipts may not average more than $1,000 to $1,500 inthe sametime. Regard- ing square faro,’’ it may be remarked that except to the constant or professional player who may be able te ‘‘protect’’ himself, this term is often mythical in houses consider- ed square. The rule of a gambler’s life is to get enough money to do a square usiness and get a fair reputation for honesty ; Win fairly if possible, if not, WIN ANYHOW. Let some party known to have a good sum of money play alone, or when the coast is clear, and if not well posted he will fall by the road- side. To win a ‘*sucker’s’’ money it is not always necessary to have foul cards or a two- card box, for an ordinary dealer with a square deck can work on a player’s known peculiari- ties soas to win his money satisfactorily; nor are other means neglected if this fails. Occa- sionally the capital of some faro concern is lost, but only when won by professionals. Some men and some houses under their control always make big money. AMES’ PLACE is suid to be one from which no player ever escapes with money, while at 114 1-2 N. Sixth street Mr. Hall, and at 214 1-2 N. Sixth street Mr. Timmons favor a two-card box in a pressing emergency. While improper to class the establishments to be further named among gambling houses | there needs to be added the list of purely BRACE FARO OR ROBBERS’ ROOSTS, the chief of which 1s Henry Wider, 110 North Sixth street. This young gentleman has had a long and successful career and probably will soon resolve into real estate business, being, it is stated, about $20,000 strong. There are also two other and similar es- tablishments, 113 and 115 North Sixth and at 614 Pine, while to complete the category re- main the remarkable HYBRID ESTABLISHMENTS of the Bensley Brothers of 527 Chestnut and 111 North Sixth streets—10 cent games and the roughest class of custom known in the town, where a square game is sometimes dealt by ac- cident or necessity, but a two-card box is al- ways used and cheating cards always ready for unybody that will stand it. which is improvised for faro when there is a chance to skin a good sucker in a quiet way. ‘The Bensleys are supposed to be the smart- est men in their line and seem to have ‘‘a ring 5 within a ring. Any parties starting op- position square 10 cent games receive genuine and sudden mysterious raids and troubles that soon caused them to throw up the sponge,and the B. 's remain in full possession of the fieid. For a year or two past all the parties above mentioned. square or brace, have received most lenient treatment, and none more than those altogether ‘‘un the rob. It may well be doubted if there bea city in the United States having such peace and pros- perity as is now found in gambling circles here. The little and noble army that daily issues forth from the brace dens and scours theaters, hotels, billiard rooms and the city generally, are totally unchecked in operation, while pro- prietors of ‘‘square’’ games have so much protection they arrogate the privilege of clos- ing the doors to such players as may be con- sidered detrimental totheirtrade. Certain police sergeants walk the streets daily arm in arm with gamblers, or are seen in front of these places in gay and pleasant confab that smacks of drinks and cigars—and what else the outside world need notknow. And this is but a hasty sketch of gambling as it exists in St. Louis to-day—a picture to which there could be many additions and more light. —— — MORNING NEWS CONDENSED. FOREIGN. The Durham miners have agreed to com- promise and end the strike. A St. Petersburg dispatch states that it is Semi- officially denied that the Czar intends to abdicate. The Khedive’s ambassador at London states that a compromise has been effected between the Khedive, England and France. The tariff debate inthe German Reichstag oceasioned an animated discussion between Herr Lasker and Bismarck, in which an an- ery scene ensued and Bismarck quitted the House. Advices from Constantinople states that the most important question now agitating the Turkish Government is how to instal Aleko Pasba, Governor-General of Roumelia, and prevent a disturbance and overcome Russian intrigue. WASHINGTON, The Senate committee has agreed to report a bill to pay Capt. Eads for work done on the jetties. It is rumored that Hayes will sacritic public interest to advance what he considers party interest, and veto the new bill. Discussion on the bill to prohibit military interference at elections was resumed in the Senate, but no conclusion reached. It is stated as a foregone conclusion that the Senate will reject D. C. Corbin, of South Car- 5 * notoriety, as United States Judge for Utah. The House devoted the entire afternoon to discussing the bill fixing the weight of the silver dollar at 460 instead of 412 1-2 grains, and adjourned without perfecting the bill. THE STATE CAPITAL. The 6 per cent renewal bond bill passed the House. The new school law was laid on the table in the House by a vote of 67 to 53. The Pollard street railroad bill has been re- committed to the Committee on Internal Im- provements. It is stated that the revision committee will report a resolution fixing the day of adjourn- ment on the 16th or 19th. The bill allowing county courts, under cer- tain circumstances, to ‘‘buy in’’ back tax lands, passed the House. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Wallace L. Darbee, former agent of the So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren, has been sentenced to twelre years in the Auburn Prison for rape. Indian Commissioner Hayt aas been indicted at Jersey City on the charge of fraudulently representing the amount of the assets of the International Trust Company. He gave bail. The Bribery Committee of the Pennsylvania lature are examining each member indi- vidually on the subject of bribes. Several tea- tified that they had been offered large sums of money to vote for cértain propositions. but pone testified that he accepted the money. MISCELLANEOUS. The Southern Baptist Convention is in ses- sion at Atlanta, Ga. The City Council of St. Joseph, Mo., has decided to erect water-works. Latest advices concede the.adoption of the new Constitutioh of California. The result of the vote on the charges nat Talmage was 2% against the charges 16 in favor of them. ter Killed by Father. Col. Harvey Whittaker’s Treatment of his Family--Shockingly Beating an Adult Son and Fatally Shot by Him an Hour Afterward. [From the Cincinnati Enguirer. | MONTEREY, OHIO, May 4.—After lingering inagony for two days, Harvey Whittaker, who was shoton Thursday last by his son Jonathan, breathed his last at5 o’clock last evening. The details of the parricide and the causes that led up to it reveal a sad story of domestic unhappiness in a family looked upon until now as one of the most respectable in the county. Col. John H. Whittaker, or, as he was more familiarly known here, Harvey Whittaker, wasa careful, industrious, and prosperous farmer. He owned about 125 acres of good land, with a good house and barn, and hada large family of sons and daughters, of whom the parricide, Jonathan, was the third eldest. Unhappily Harvey Whittaker, though esteem- ed by his neighbors, was not respected at home. He had been a stern parent, harsh in his treatment of his children, and they had grown up more in fear than in love of him. Hie was a good father, in that he provided for his family, but he made the mistake of ruling them asa tyrant. His eldest son, before he arrived at his majority, ran away from home and enlisted in the army, forced into the step, it is averred, by the uncompromising severity of his father: but this did not seem to influ- ence the latter torelax his vigorous treatment of the other children. Frequent quarrels between him and them, after they grew up, resulted. Mr. Whittaker seemsto -have been doubly severe toward Jonathan, who was lazy, shift- less. and inclined to be disrespectful and un- dutiful. From his infancy he had been sub- ject to epileptic fits, which seemed to be hereditary in the family, and they at times incapacitated him from doing any work. Still, even when well, he would not work, and as his father would have no loafers/ around him, he was several times driven from home after being given the choice to work as the rest of the family or go. He found lodging in some neighbor’s house or in their barns, sneaking home while the father was out in the fields at work, and getting his meals from his mother. Whenever his father caught him at home a quarrel, which usually ended in blows, was the result, the father generally coming out best in these unnatural conflicts. Three or four weeks ago Jonathan was driven from the house by his father for refusing to work and generally misbehaving nimself. He found lodging in the barn of a near neighbor, and, as usual in his father’s absence, sneaked home to get bis food. On Thursday last he went to the house in this manner shortly after dinner. and, being under the influence of liquor (getting drunk being one of his vices), quarreled with his grandfather, who is blind and decrepit. The father start- ed to call his son (Jonathan’s father), but Jonathan seized him by the arm and with some force burled him to the other end of the room. Hethen went out of the house, and after lounging around for a while entered the cider mill, and, getting a bottle of cider, started for a neighbor’s tield, which adjoined his father’s. This neighbor, Mr. Holloway, be invited to drink with him, and then, seating himself on the top rail of a fence, he up behind him, and, pulling him off the fence, away the re- in idleness. father stepped while the day there his to of sat prepared mainder As he _ threw him on the ground, and then adminis- | tered a terrible beating to him, At 111 North Sixth there is a bed- room, | and face. kicking him around the body and stamping on his head Jonathan begged to be let up, and on get- ting to his feet promised to mend his ways. His father then seized him by the collar, dragged him to where Holloway was working, and made him repeat his promises, which were that he would go home and work three days a week for his board and maintenance. Then his father told him to go home and wash his face, which was bruisea and bloody. Jonathan went home and his mother washed his face and fixed him up, after which he set out down the road, tell- ing his mother he would go off fishing for a day or two, until his father’s temper had cooled down. Instead of coming to Monterey, he stopped at the first house, and borrowed a double-barrel shot-gun from the man living there, a Mr. Snell, on the pretense that he was going squirrel hunting. Covtinuing down the road, he stopped at the house of a man named Burns and tried to borrow some large shot, saying that he wanted to shoot hawks. Burns had none, and he came on to this place and bought a nickel’s worth of No. 7 shot, the largest they had atthe store. He then started for home, carrying his gun. Mrs. Snell, who had heard of his quarrel that afternoon with his father and dared not trust him with the gun, met him as he reached her house, and, to disarm his suspicions, jokingly asked him to let her have it, as she wanted to use it. He refused, telling her that he intended to use it, and walked on. Mr. Holloway met him, and asked what he was going to do with the gun. Jonathan muttered something about not allowing the old man (his father) to abuse him all the time, and passed on. Half a mile further on Jonathan reached his father’s premises. Just at that time the latter stepped out toward the fence and said some- thing to Jonathan. Loud words followed. Then Jonathan was seen to raise the gun and eoint it at his father. The latter put up his right hand to shield himself; there was a flash and the old man dropped. In a moment, however, be was on his feet and staggering, all bloody, to the gate. The son covered him with the other barrel of the gun and ordered him to stand back, but the father staggered out into the road, apparently dazed and blinded; im- mediately another report rang out and the old man again fell, just as some of the neighbors appeared on the scene. One started for a — and another wrenched the gun from the parrieide, the wounded father in thejmean- time staggering into his home. The messenger for the physician on his way passed through this village and told of the occurrence. A son of the murdered man was in Monterey at the time, and, accompanied by several others,started forthe scene of the mur- der. As they reached the outskirts of the city they met Jonathan coming in. This brother jumped upon Jonathan in a frenzy of passion, and, knocking him down, kicked and pound- ed him in such a way as to threaten a fratri- cidal murder. He was pulled off, however, and Jonathan, whose coming here seems to have been for the purpose of giving himself up, walked on to Squire Hall’s office and surrendered himself. He was promptly com- mitted to jail. Owing to the excitement in the neighborhood he was removed for safe- keeping to the Batavia jail. Jonathan Whittaker is about 26 years of age, rather sickly-looking, and nothing of the desperado in his appearance. He has thin, light hair; weak, gray eyes, and a very slim blonde moustache. His face is just now ter- ribly battered and bruised. th eyes are blackened, his mouth bruised and skinned, and his head swollen in places from the kick- ing. He does not seem as yet to realize bis osition, and manifests no compunction for is bloody deed. He acknowledges the quarrel with his grandfather on Thursday, and tells the same story as the others about the beating bis father gave him, but there his version of the story begins to differ from the others. He says he got the gun to go shooting squirrels, but concluded to wait un- til next day. He started to go to the barn, where he was going to sleep, and onthe way loaded his gun to shoot at a squirrel, but the latter got away before he could discharge it. To reach the place where he intended to stay during the night, he had to pass his father’s house.. The father came out and asked him, „what in bh—ll he was marching up and dowa the road with a gun for.’’ He answered that the road was free and passed on. His father started, he says, he supposed, to beat him again, and he warned him not to come near him. Then his father stooped down and pick- ed up a stone, and he remembers no more un- til be found himself struggling with Snell for the possession of the gun. Jonathan says that his epileptic fits were brought on when he was nme years ofage by his father beating him over the head with a club. His mother brother and all his relatives deny the stories of his fits having been produced by his father beating him. They say he bas had them ever since | Irvin. aged thirty, zn the left breast and tem- le, this morning, killmg ber almost instant- , Mrs. Irvin bad gone to visit a friend, . Mar t Johnson, who lives in Purcell’s Covrt, water street. While she was talking with Mrs. Jobnson, Parr court and sat son, were sisters of Mrs. Hesdra. These were entered the wh. . adjoining ——7 „ n a nto Mrs. Jobna:m’s 14 into the second one child, about ABDYOCTED BY HIS WIFE. Singular a Tallor’s Disappear- ance fell to the Police. From the New York Times. ! Yesterday afterneon Mr. Isaac Peiser, of No. 237 Division street, called on Superin- tendent Walling and invoked the aid of the police to find his brother Marx, who, he said, had been abducted by his own wife and three unknown men from in front of his residence, No. 55 Eldridge street. Marx is a tailor by occupation. He ig an Israelite, and was born in England. His brother said that seven years ago, while in Manchester, England, Marx was married to an Irish Catholic girl. They lived happily together for four years there,and then came to this country. Mrs. Peiser, at the ur- gent solicitation of her husband, promised to embrace the Jewish faith on her arrival here. After awhile, however, she made some unde- She changed her religion, as she promised. sirable acquaintances, and returned to her original fuith. Her brother-in-law said that she became dissipated in her habits and neglected her nusband and her family duties. She got into the habit of remaining out all night, and finally ber husband abandoned her and went to live in Newark, N. J. The couple were separated for a yeur, and the wife then suc- ceeded in obtaining her husband’s forgive- ness. He, believing her promises to reform, went to live with her again. They set up housekeeping again at No. 55 Eldridge street, and for two weeks their domestic life was peaceful and happy. One night she met a young man with whom she had been pre- viously acquainted, and remained out all night. When she returned the next day she gave no explanation of her absence. This kind of conduct continued for several weeks, and finally her husband droye ber from the house. He got work atatailoring establishment in Sheriff street and continued to tive in Eldridge street. Between 12 and 1 o’clock yesterday morning, as Marx wus —— in front of his residence, he was accosted by his wife. With- tears in her eyes, she implored him to take her back to his home, but he refused to have anything to do with ber. She promised to be a good woman and to make his home happy. He r her und said, I swore that God Almighty should kill me if I lived with you again. This seemed to enrage the woman and, springing to her feet, she cried: have begged you, and you refused; now I' compel you to live with me. She then gave a signal and three men appeared. They lifted Marx in their arms and carried him off, and since that time his brother has neith- er seen nor heard from him. ‘The particu- lars of the abduction, as related above, were obtained from Max Levy, a resident of the same house, who witnessed the whole affair, but who says he was too much frightened to give an alarm or call forthe police. Several ofticers have been detailed to investigate the case. Mrs. Peiser is said to live at No. 29 Prince street, but the people of the house deny all knowledge of her. The abducted husband is described as 20 years of age, 5 1eet 5 inches in height, having a dark complexion and a biack mustache. Ile is very slim, and looks deli- cate. ‘The friends of Marx are greatly alarm- ed at his disappearance. Peiser, the abducted husband, returned to his brother’s house last night. He said that he had again forgiveu his wife, and had de- termined to live with her again,as he believed that she had reformed. - — CYNTHIA HESDRA’S WILL. The Sisters and Cousins of a Wealthy Colored Woman Disappointed. [From the New York World. | There was offered for probate inthe Sur- rogate’s Court yesterday the will of Cynthia Hesdra, a mulatto who died on February 9. She owned real estate valued at $75,000. The house in which she died, and which had be- longed to her for eighteen or twenty years, is at 102 West Third street. The Rey. Highland Giartet’s name is on the door-plate. Mrs. Hesdra and her husband, Edward, oc- cupied part of the lower floor and basement. Two children, grandnieces of hers, whom she had adopted, lived with them until one was sent to school at Newburg, where she is now. The other remains with Mr. Hesdra. The second floor was and is occupied by a Mrs. Jeffrey, a niece, and her children. Mrs. Sar- vant,of Minetta lane. and Mrs. Green. of Hud- the only persons closely related to her. Until aiterthe funeral no questions were asked about tLe property, but when it was given out that no will had been found Mrs. Green, Mrs. Sarvant and Mrs. Jeffrey began to hope. There was a consulta- tion, at which Mr. Hesdra agreed to divide the property into six parts—other claimants having put in claims—euch claimant to take a share. To this Mrs. Green would not conseat, and she began a partition suit, in which the names of fourteen beirs were mentioned. She 3 to allow Mr. Hesdra 8400 a year. ‘be case was well advanced when, on April 30, Mr. McAdam, Mr. Hesdra’s lawyer, called atthe house and took off a trunk full of pa- pers. Among them was a will, dated in 1876, leaving the entire property to Mr. Hesdra, re- serving only enough for a tombstone, which he must erect over his wife’s grave. Mr. Hesdra was found yesterday afternoon. He has a portly, erect figure, and his white hair and full side whiskers, also perfectly white, gave bim quite a distinguished appear- ance. He is seventy years old. The discov- ery of the will had been unexpected to him, he suid, for he had Known nothing of its ex- istence. Yet that was a matter of small im- portance compared with the chagrin he felt ut thinking that if a chance had been given them his relatives would have cut him off in his old age with a paltry $400 a yer. My wife and I,’’ he said, made that money together. Everything I got I gave to her, and when I invested any- thing it was with money held in her name. | gave her money because 1 trusted her fully and always with a belief that she was more likely to be in need of it after I was gone than I after she was gone. The money came by hard work and strict economy. Whenever there was any carpentering or joining or other work to be done about the house I always did it and we never had to spend auythiug for labor. I was a cabinet- maker tor fifteen years and made enough money at it to speculate in real estate. In this way the small savings grew intoa fortune. Excepting Mrs. Green my wife’s relatives were unfortunate in money matters, and we helped them for many years. Indeed, it is in my power to distress them now very much by urging claims that I bave againstthem. But I wouldn't do it and they know it, and that fuct makes it harder to think they would de- prive me of what I have worked a lifetime lor. ‘The relatives, will. it is said, will contest the > Jerseyville Jottings. JERSEYVILLE, ILL., May 9.—Capt. James Burk seems to be the favorite with the boys of the militia company for captain. Mr. Frederick Bertman and Miss Sarah F. Massey were united in wedlock at the Catholic church last Wednesday morning. Sheriff James M. Young and Deputy Henry Nevins left last Wednesday evening for Omaha whither they go on a business trip. Our City Council met lgst Tuesday evening. Present, J. T. MeGready, Mayor; James R. Colean, Clerk; P. Kennedy, City Attorney, and Aldermen’ Barry, Holenback, Fox, Sweeney, Young, Bowman, Fields and Joha A. Shephard. ‘the allowing of bills and re- ceiving of reports of the different committees was the general run of the meeting. Miss Lizzie Shaw, the young lady who was se badly burned about two weeks ago, died last Sunday about 6 o’clock. The cireum- stances connected with the burning have al- ready been given tothe readers of the P.-D. Dr. Kingston, who was called at the time, had charge of the case about ten days, when, owing to the limited circumstances of the — our County Physician was given the case. — og age gy the physicians and citizens, especially the ladies, gave her all the aid in their power, death came to ber relief. Ata meeting held in Piasa township a mo- tion was made by Mr. Parrish to levy 33 per cent on the entire valuation of the township. The rates were divided as follows: 10 per cent — roads and 1 10 . for town- * 7 per cent for county pur- — Sea 8 per cout for part ru. Taking the valuation Piasa towns which will ceive in money something ove would aow suggest that all outside townsh made their levy need not do so The sults of gray Cadets will dave their new | * AA, eee —**Is that tripet’? aske@ she of the market course N ripe.’’ ripli 3 1 Don't slop over! the old men said, As he his hand on the young man’s it fast ; ; thera horse-shoes last; Go it while hair and hide on horse Will hold together. O, go t, of course— Go it as fast as ever you can, But don't slop over, my deur young man. Don't slop over! You'll find someday That keeping an eye to the windward will pay; A horse may run a littie too long, A preacher may preach just a fraction too strong. ’ * Anda post, who pleases a world with rhymes, May write and t it in after times > Keep the end of the effortin view, And don’t slop over, whatever you do. Don't slop over! Tre wisest men Are bound to slop over now and then; And get the wisest at work or feast Are the very ones that blunder the least; Those who for spilt milk never wail Are the ones that carry the steadiest pail. Whenever you go, go in for the fat; But don’t slop over!—and freeze to that. Dont slop over! Great Solomon Once went a little too far with his tun; Louis Napoleon, as we know, Slopped over on Max in Mexico; Horace Greeley and Jefferson D., And Hinton Helper and old J. B., And Andrew Johnsing—the great ‘I won't!" Ail slopped over—take care you don't.“ ‘*Don’t slop over distrust yourself, Nor always reach to the bighest shelf; The next to the highest will generally do, And answer the need ot such as you. (limb, ot «course, but always stop ate breath this side of the top; . hase seu will reach in wind and strong, \ uicut sopping over—thus ends my song. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. _ PEN CILINGS. —It is the last strawberry shortcake that kills the dyspeptic.—[Turner’s Falls Re- porter. —The pun is mightier than the sword.—[Ex. But it is seldom as sharp and pointed.—[Nor. Herald. a A man in Warrensville has a ‘ar of eggs fifty years old. Ile is evidentiy awaiting the arrival of a temperance lecturer.—[Nor. Her- ald. —A telegraphic paradox. Two ponies, formerly Sitting Bull’s, are ownedin Du- luth.’’ How cana pony become a sitting bull or a sitting bull become a pony. —IOil Citv Derrick. — What, asks a correspondent, is the meaning of Sbelley's ‘Epipsychidion?’’’ We are not perfectly certain, but it sounds won- derfully like the name of some new ague med- icine.—| Hawkeve. — Melancholy sight, Mr. Spicer,’’ said a prohibitory friend, as an individual heavily loaded with beer lurched against them. **Yes,’’ said the interrogated, **he is more 'n full.“ — [Boston Com. Bulletin. — Buffalo Express: England to Mr. Lor- illard—‘*’*Ere I say! ve doesn’t object to Parole, you know; but ven it comes to is sisters, ’is cousins and ‘is aunts, that’s carrying the joke too deuced far, you know. —The exchange you appreciate so highly that you never tear the wrapper off it, is the one that comes along with the beautiful regu- larity of cleck-work. A snow storm seventy feet deep on the level would not delay its ar- rival a single day.—[Nor. Herald. Our esteemed contemporary the Ossehas- onlito lrodalomtortenelmi of Lapok Kolozsvar, Hungary, is respectfully informed that unless it chops its name up into a dozen pieces, and discards eleven of them, we cannot copy and credit its jokes, many of which are of more than ordinary merit. Out italic case would soon give out.—/ Nor. Her. —The startling announcement of the Death of Benjamin Franklin’’ confronts us in a con- temporary of the date of the 2d inst. This is very sudden. We had not even heard he was sick. His death willbe universally lamented. He was a good printer, and published a very relial le almanae for many years. Despite the fact that he built a frauduſent maxim about ‘*Farly to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise, the announce- ment of his sudden taking off’’ will be re- ceived with a feeling of sorrow everywhere— as well as in other places. How true the words of the poet, I the midst of death we are in life’’—or somehow that way.—[Nor. Her. — A Damp May Queen. [From the Detroit Free Press. } The Queen of May was chosen yesterday. She got up at an early hour, hünted up her furs and overshoes, borrowed a pair of mit- tens, and was duly escorted tothe green for- est. The forest wasn’tthe only green thing around there. There was the grass, for in- stance. The programme forthe Ist of May ts the same all over this State. The young folks gatherinthe beautiful. forest. They think they hear the glad songs of ten thousand birds, but that’s where they are lame. What they hear is the voice of a balf-frozen -blue- jay or the caw of a disap point- ed crow. The crowd may sit down onanoid log and shiver, orstand up and shake—it’s all the same on the Ist of May. It any one has brought any provisions along, the joyous crowdturnto aud eat them up. If there are no provisions the happy band give early leeks the grand bounce. Soon after this event festivities begin. After these have subsided the Queen is led upon the platform. If the platform doesn’t break down she is all right; if it does break, ber lovers have another fight. Then sheis crowned. A young mas with a bad cold in his head tries to say something sentimental and beautiful, and she wipes her nose and tries to look like an angel. Theu somebody hits the orator with a toad-stvol, the Queen's motber appears with fire in her eyes, and such of the angelic band as don’t cure to dig more leeks or hunt for spice-bush and sassafras go home and take the rest of their cough medicine. If the Queen ever gets over her cold she marries sume disguised duke and returns once a year to put on style over her former schoolmates. If catarrh sets in, she secures the agency for the sale of a fountain pen and lives to a good old single uge. — — Confusion. From the Burlington Hawkeye. } It was rather late yesterday morning whea Mr. Willaby got up, and he was vaguely con- scious of a confused revollection of things, but he didn’t say much and tried to appear as cheerful as he knew how. Presently break- fast was announced, and the family took their places at the table, but Mr. Willaby was amazed, as he sat staring at ix little round wooden boxes of axle grease ranged solemalg in front of his plate. **Where under the sun, he said, witha puzzled intonation, *‘what in thunder—Wwhere did all this axle grease come from and what ts it for?’’ „Oh, is it axle grease? asked his wife. wife charming simplicity and innocence, just a trifie overdone. ** Yuu ssid last night when you brought these cans home that they were — and would be nice for brexkfast. thought you had better eat them right en 7 as they didu’t »meill as though they wou keep very much ee. 8. And then Mrs. Willaby removed the cans, and her husband sat and looked at the teapot and thought so | that his coffee was as cold as a rich relative when be thought to drink u. ene - yesterday for flowers and seeds, and one of the seed sellers explained to her: ; „Here are some ef the nicest ye om ike Paradise. ~The y will, en:“ absently replied the wo- N — — 2 Lou .— know how wi prove looks . aes 1 wou't Just as take any. made the eld house look Ihab. ** Yes, old cui that charms birds st ‘will. They ; mT Sta aa i * . > ia 4 . 7 8 Bal 2 3 Poh = BA 3 75 . 4 ~~ * 2 Os eae ie 5 * 2 we ch r tk Oe TAS ake ae a, Se. F N i 2% 4 ie: 2 * “4 2 a * 4 * 1 " 8 4 * * 7 7 5
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