Rochester Daily Union And Advertiser
Volume XL., No. 37.
Rochester, N.Y., Tuesday Evening, February 12, 1867.
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All Sorts of Paragraphs.
- The new Republican paper in New York which Dana & Co. are to edit, is to be called “The Morning Chronicle”, but it will not be brought out as early as we anticipated – the 1st of March – the old Herald building which they were to have for headquarters not being obtainable just then.
- Pittston, Pa., can boast that there is now living in that place a lady who has given birth to five healthy children within the last year. – They are all living and doing well.
- Philadelphia clergymen “cannot understand why the rich man who rides in his carriage on Sunday should go to heaven while the poor man who rides in the street car should go to hell.”
- A queer story is afloat in New York social circles respecting a party given last week by a lady whose husband occupies a front rank among men of science in that city. The principal invited guest was – well, a star in the musical firmament; and everybody went in hope of hearing the rich notes of the songstress. At the appropriate moment the hostess began persuasively; “Won’t you sing to us, mademoiselle?” “By no means, dear Mrs. ---,” was the response; “I came to be entertained, not to entertain.” Whereupon there was a fluttering, blank looks, much whispering, and a world of gossip, since.
- On Tuesday evening, a scene of somewhat unusual character occurred in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Alleghany, Pa. An evening meeting in progress there, and in attendance were two women occupying the same pew. One of them suddenly recognized in the other a person with whom she had accused her husband of having improper intimacy. She determined to have a distinct understanding about the matter there and then, and commenced her accusations against the other in an audible whisper. The responses were equally vehement, and at last the conversation became so vigorous as to disturb the service and attract the attention of all present. Shortly all attempts to subdue their voices ceased, and the wordy war raged unrestrained. At length the opponents took a position in the aisle, and commenced a vigorous hand to hand fight, scratching, pulling hair, and clapper-clawing generally. At last they were separated and put out of the church.
A sad occurrence took place in Utica on Saturday morning last. Mr. Peter Brewer, an old and respected citizen, died on Friday, and the watchers who were attending the corpse that night were requested to call Mrs. Brewer early on the following morning. Soon after awakening her a noise was heard in the hall, when on opening the door leading to it, the body of Mrs. B. was found lying at the foot of the stairs. It is supposed that while descending, her foot caught and she fell the whole length breaking her neck.
- A Washington special to the New York Commercial says: Conover the detective who fabricated the testimony complicating Jeff. Davis with the Lincoln assassination plot, has been found guilty of perjury.
- J.C. Derby, United States Agent to the Paris Exposition in a card published in last evening New York papers, states that a dispatch received at his Agency to-day announces the safe arrival at home of the ships Harpswell and Mercury, containing articles contributed by the United States to the Paris Exposition.
- A Washington special to the New York Post says important parts of the manuscript containing the evidence taken in the New York Custom House investigation have been taken. The witnesses have been sent for to undergo re-examination.
- In New York on Sunday evening a lad named Dussing was almost instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol with which he was playing.
- A new trial has been granted in the Stewart divorce case at Chicago, and leave given the complainant to amend the bill.
- One of the largest owners of real estate in Mobile has deducted one-third of the amount due from his tenants on notes given the past year, giving, on receiving two-thirds of the amount, a receipt in full.
- The bonded warehouse of Miller & Conger, on Water st., New York, was robbed Sunday night of silks owned by A.T. Stewart, valued at fifteen thousand dollars.
The County Treasurer of Marion Co., Iowa, was robbed on Friday night of $40,000.
- A bill has been introduced into the Assembly to protect hotel, boarding house and restaurant keepers from the tricks of people who have a way of eating and drinking at other people’s expense.
- Bridget McGuire was found dead in her bed at Ballston Spa on Saturday, having been suffocated with gas which she had neglected to turn off.
- Thomas Martin committed suicide at Troy on Saturday.
- Mrs. E. Oakes Smith, the authoress, has been in Washington some time seeking a pardon for her son, convicted several years since in Boston of participating in the slave trade and other equally dark crimes. The application has been refused.
- Mr. Chas. Prescott, of the town of Cortland, about the middle of last September lost from his vest pocket at night after going to bed about eight hundred and forty dollars, rolled together. How he lost the money he did not know; no burglars had been in the house through the night. He suspected a servant who had lived for a long time in the family, and who was believed to be strictly honest; but he did not tell any person of the loss except his wife, and they determined to wait and watch. Last Tuesday Mrs. Prescott was looking for some pieces of old muslin in a closet. On the floor was an old bag, and in the folds of it a mouse had made her nest; she had lined it with the missing greenbacks, which were well preserved.
- A gentleman who has just returned to Washington from Fortress Monroe, says, from personal knowledge, that the health of Jefferson Davis is much better than it has been for six months past, that he is allowed free intercourse with visitors, but avoids all conversation about politics. He has full range of the fort, and lives as comfortably as any of the United States officers.
- Hon. I. Washburne has purchased the Bigelow estate, on Front street, Worcester, Mass., opposite the Common, containing 22,500 feet of land, paying therefore the sum of $26,000, on which he proposes to erect a Memorial Dispensary and Hospital for the benefit of the poor of that city, without regard to creed or nationality or condition. The founder calls it a memorial institution, in memory of two deceased daughters, whose tastes and wishes were in accordance with the plan, and who, had they lived, would have made a similar disposition of the means placed at their disposal.
- James Ryan, who was arrested in Binghamton on Friday evening for the murder of his stepfather, committed suicide in jail the morning after his incarceration. The murder occurred in December last, while Ryan and his victim were at work in the woods together. The cause of the death is attributed to a quarrel between the murdered man and Ryan’s mother to whom he had been married but a couple of years.
- One of the New York Sunday papers gave in its last issue a list of the persons in New York who own diamonds, with a statement of their value. A very clever thing for the burglars.
A dispatch on Saturday from Lewiston, Me., relative to the murder of Auburn, in that State, says: “The negro asserts that he did not think the murder was contemplated, and consequently he went to the house unarmed, while his accomplice first seized Mrs. Kinsley, and demanded
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where the money was, when she screamed for Mrs. Caswell. The accomplice then struck Mrs. Kinsley with a chair. Mrs. Caswell on coming out of the room was struck by the accomplice on the head with a hatchet, and he left her for dead, when both the murderers returned to Mrs. Kinsley’s bedroom and searched for money where she had indicated, but found none. Mrs. Caswell had returned to consciousness, and was attempting to reach her room, when the negro followed her and killed her with a chair. In the meantime the accomplice had finished Mrs. Kinsley. They then tried to light a lamp, but failed, and after further search, gave up all hopes of finding any money and left. Verrill, whom the negro charges with being the instigator of, and accomplice in the crime, is in jail. Detectives are understood to be at work on his case.”
- An attempt was made on Saturday evening to rob the Savings Bank in Williamsburgh and the watchman brutally assaulted with a slug shot, evidently with the intention of killing him and getting possession of the keys. His cries alarmed his assailant so that he ran away and escaped.
- Dr. F.A.P. Barnard, President of Columbia College, and one of the scientific commissioners to the Paris Exhibition, sailed for Europe on Saturday morning in the City of Paris. He will go to Naples to witness the annular eclipse of the sun in March, and return in time for the opening of the exhibition.
- A lady Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post says: “Do you want the spice of gossip? Personalities are vulgar, but personality is one of the penalties of public life: Mrs. Sprague still reigns, piquant and elegant, and fragile of figure, as if some scented summer breeze had wafted over her from a Parisian saloon. Mrs. Charles Summer sets off the classical elegance of her face by such wreaths as one sees cut in cameos. Mrs. Douglas that was has fallen out of the ranks of belle-hood into the exalted duties of maternity.
- John S. Dickerman was drowned in Albany on Saturday evening, by a horse which he was riding, backing off the dock into the river.
- John O. Cole, who has held the office of Grand Secretary of the Royal Arch Chapter of Masons for the past forty-two years, has been presented by the chapter with the sum of $5000. Mr. Cole is seventy-two years of age.
- The Chicago Journal in an article on the decline of rents in that city, says in every direction can be seen houses ticketed “For Rent”, the high figures demanded having driven the late occupants into “rooms”, or smaller houses, where the rents required do not eat up one-half of the salary of a good clerk, or take all the profits of a concern doing an ordinary business.
- A bill has been introduced in the Illinois Legislature to incorporate a new Democratic newspaper at Chicago to be called The Age, with a capital of $200,000.
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Labor in Massachusetts.
The Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature appointed to inquire
into the expediency of legalizing eight hours as a day’s labor have reported
the result of their investigations:
The majority report states that the Commissioners found it
next to impossible to ascertain how many children under fourteen years of age
are employed in factory and other works in Massachusetts, and they are satisfied
that there is a general disregard of the law forbidding the employment of
children under ten years of age in factories; that indeed there are in the State
thousands of these “victims of cupidity and avarice”; and they suggest, as
the best means of securing the enforcement of the law, the appointment by the
Governor of a special State Inspector of labor, whose duty it shall be to secure
the enforcement of this and other provisions of the law for the protection of
laborers. The Committee ascertained that in twenty-five of the largest
manufactories one-fifth of the laborers are under eighteen, and they believe
that throughout the State the proportion is larger, probably as large as
one-fourth. The Committee think that the law requiring minors who work in
factories to attend school six months in the year is largely evaded, and suggest
that measures should be taken for its enforcement. – Eleven hours is the
average day’s work for females in the factories of the State. Five
establishments fall a quarter of an hour below this average, and four go up as
high as twelve hours per day. Mechanics generally work but ten hours. Thus the
women and children work an hour longer each day than men. They should work an
hour or two less, and the committee find proof that the vitality of these
laborers is reduced and life shortened by such excessive hours. In the English
factories nine and a half hours is the average day’s work, and a few
establishments exceed it. The average advance in factory wages since 1860 has
been about 50 per cent, while the cost of living has more than doubled. These
facts have an ugly look alongside of the extraordinary dividends made by the
manufacturing companies in the last five years. The Commissioners also suggest
the need of reform in the time allowed for dinner, which in some establishments
is only forty=five minutes, in some less. One hour is allowed in English
factories, and it is the least time consistent with digestion and good health.
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From the Cleveland Plaindealer.
The Cashier of a National Bank Insults a
Young Lady – He is Thrown from a Railroad Train.
Villainy, in the guise of respectability, was very effectually foiled last
Wednesday, on the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, between Salamenca and
this city. The occurrence which we shall relate, took place on a passenger train
bound for this city. In one of the cars was a young miss, perhaps fourteen years
of age – a mere child, pretty and attractive. From her artless conversation,
the fact was apparent, that she had been attending an eastern boarding school
and was en route for home. She was unattended by friends.
Among the male passengers was the reputed cashier of a national bank in Washington – a man at least forty-five years of age. He was a person of pleasing address, and presented every conventional mark of the gentleman. The car was crowded, and it so happened that the cashier shared the young girl’s seat with her. For a time she was, very naturally, shy and uncommunicative; but this reserve eventually wore off, in view of the gentleman’s agreeable manners and thoughtful attention to her comforts. He was attentive, without appearing officious, and in a manner to leave the impression that his care of her was unstudied, and was the merely the prompting of a kindly nature. Thus it came about that the gentleman soon appeared to the young lady more in the light of a pleasant acquaintance, than in that of a total stranger. At several of the stations he alighted and procured her refreshments; acts that excited her gratitude, and caused her to henceforth received his attentions in perfect confidence.
Soon after dark, however, it became apparent to the passengers that all was not as it should be with the couple. The man seemed to be paying attentions to his charge that were far from warranted – so much so as to apparently distress the young lady exceedingly. Their conversation, that had heretofore been carried on in an ordinarily loud voice, was now hushed and low, and was borne principally by the man. Once or twice something like a sob seemed to come from the girl; but as yet none of the passengers had been particularly attracted to the couple, as the car by this time had been thinned out, and the two were considerably removed from the rest. At last the young lady arose and proceeded to a vacant seat in another part of the coach. As she did so, she lowered her veil, and was apparently weeping.
For some time matters remained in status
quo. Finally, however, the man joined her. The eyes of the passengers
were now opened to the fact, that the reputed cashier was playing the part of a
villain; and the time for interference came, when the poor girl suddenly broke
down into uncontrollable weeping, and begged for protection from the scoundrel,
whose devilish advances had well nigh driven her to destruction. In an instant
the man was seized by three or four gentlemen, and dragged towards the rear
platform. The train was going at a moderate rate of speed. The fellow struggled
fiercely with his captors, and tried to draw a revolver; but to no purpose, for
he was quickly landed on the platform, and thence dropped gently to the side of
the track, where he was left to reflect upon his brutal conduct, whilst walking
to the nearest station.
Universal verdict – served him right.
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Bogus Gold Dollars. How
the “Yankees” Cheat the Negroes.
The Richmond (Va.) Whig tells the following tale, which it uses to “point the
moral” of Yankee shrewdness and overreaching:
A few days since a Richmond darkey named Joseph Robinson returned to this city
from a Northern tour. At Washington he met with a Yankee financier, who had
doubtless been engaged in a Wall street banking house, who enquired of him
whither he was traveling; and upon being informed by the unsophisticated ebony
that he was journeying toward the capital of the Old Dominion, in order to
embrace his brother Hunnicutt, the following colloquy engaged:
Financier – How’s gold in Richmond?
Darkey – Gold’s mighty scarce down dar, sar.
Financier – (pulling out thirty-five brass pieces, which by the gaslight resembled gold dollars) – Well, I’ll give you thirty-five dollars in gold for the same amount in greenbacks, and when you get there you can make a spec.
The darkey, thinking every Yankee his friend, took up the proposition and immediately closed the bargain. Upon arriving in the city, and inspecting the coin by the light of day, he learned that he had traded off Uncle Samuel’s currency for a lot of lager beer checks, which were of the size of a dollar piece, with
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The Goddess of Liberty upon the face, who seemed to be
suffering from some serious constitutional disturbance, and upon the reverse was
the picture of the American Eagle, much thinner than when we last saw the noble
bird depicted upon an United States coin. Both of these figures ere encircled
with the following motto: “Compositions
Spell Marks.” We “guess” that the next time this darkey visits
Jersey, he will prefer greenbacks to hard currency.
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A Female Foot Race.
One Hundred and Nine Miles in Thirteen Hours.
Chihuahua (Mexico) Correspondence of the New York Herald.
Among the Tarahumares foot-racing is a favorite diversion, and even the women
compete in the lists. At times a great rivalry springs up between the adjoining
towns of some districts as to the relative merits of the contestants. Within a
month a rivalry of this kind between the two villages of Baconia and Sesoguiche
gave rise to the most famous foot race on record. Four of the fastest women from
each town were selected, and accompanied to an intermediate point between the
towns, where there was an oblong mountain three Mexican leagues round it by
measurement of the road; around this it was stipulated that the race was to take
place, the prize to be conceded to those who made the quickest time in running
round the mountain fourteen times – a distance, at the very least, of one
hundred English miles. At fixed points within the circumference of the mountain
guards were stationed, who were to see that, the race was conducted with
fairness. The whole population of the surrounding country had assembled, with
whatever they could collect of value, that they might have the opportunity of
betting something upon the result which was to bring shame or honor to the rival
villages. They were also sufficiently civilized to have a large quantity of the
intoxicating drink – the Tezuina.
As the eight athletic creatures took their places at the starting point the
excitement ran high; they were, like the old Roman athletes, stripped for the
contest, the only garment worn being a short petticoat, which reached within
about six inches of the knee. Our informant, who stopped his travels for a day
to witness this novel race, was struck with magnificent development of muscle
displayed by a swarthy looking belle, whose petticoat was a little shorter than
the rest, and he forthwith bet his pile on Sesoguiche. There were other finely
developed creatures in the list, but none whose bright eyes, clean limbs, hard
looking flesh, and apparent gutta percha elasticity of motion drew so vividly
upon his imagination, and so powerfully upon his purse.
The whole bevy were off at the word go, amid the wildest excitement, and the betting commenced. The time was six o’clock and thirty-five minutes in the morning. The first, second, third, fourth, and the fifth turn was completed without any great advantage upon either side; but during the next five turns it was evident that, with the exception of the fair belle above mentioned, Sesoguiche was losing ground. She, however, kept breast and breast with two wiry creatures from Baconia. At the twelfth turn of the mountain all but the three here mentioned dropped from the track. The multitude was now pretty well soaked with Tezunia, and the betting ran to the wildest extremes; every one who had anything of value staked it on the race – hoes, plows and other implements, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, cats, dogs, and whatever else there was of value changed hands, - The men bet their clothes, while the women pitched in and bet their petticoats. All was a wild uproar, and the derby sweepstakes were nowhere.
The thirteenth turn was made; but it was evident that the Sesoguiche belle was getting out of wind, and after all had not so much bottom as the wiry contestants from Baconia. But she was not far behind, and although Baconia took the prize it was not a mater for much boasting.
The two women from the latter town were received with the
loudest shouts of joy by their townspeople. They had finished the race at eight
o’clock in the evening, making the whole distance, 109 miles, in thirteen
hours and twenty-five minutes by the watch of our informant. One of the two
Baconia women who had won the race had given birth to a child ten days before,
and prepared herself for the contest by bandaging her breasts. The only stops
made during the time by the contestants for the prizes were either to take a
little water or eat frugally of pinoli – a simple gruel made of parched corn,
ground and sweetened with sugar. By the time the race was concluded nearly every
Indian on the ground was drunk.
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From the Chicago Times, Feb. 9.
Terrible Murder In Chicago.
A Bar Keeper Shot Through the Brain and Instantly Killed – Unprovoked
Character of the Assault.
A deadly affray occurred about 12 o’clock last night at a saloon on
Dearborn street, by which a man named Edward S. Wilson lost his life, by a shot
from a revolver in the hands of George Schofield. The scene of the affray was a
lager bier saloon, located in the establishment of No. 146 Dearborn street. The
establishment has been until within a few days past the property of a man named
Cameron, but lately passed into the possession of T.H. Ogden, the present
proprietor.
During the evening a party of young men had been seated in the saloon engaged in drinking considerable quantities of lager bier and alcoholic stimulants, and among the crowd were two persons known as George Wright and Ben Curlew, together with Schofield, who fired the fatal shot. The former is a man well known to the police, and a partner with Bingham, whose arrest upon a charge of swindling was recorded in the Times a few days since.
The quantity of liquor imbibed by the parties had rendered nearly all of them considerably intoxicated, and among two or three, high words arose about some trivial matter, in which the others took part. The saloon up to a period within a few minutes prior to the affray had been in charge of the bar-keeper, Charles E. Stamp. Wilson, the murdered man, was also a bar-tender in the establishment, and a few minutes prior to the occurrence had entered for the purpose of relieving Stamp, and assuming the duties of his “watch” until the hour for closing. He had but just taken his position behind the bar when a quarrel was commenced between Wright and Curlew. The former advanced to the latter and addressed him with angry words, to which response was made in the same spirit. The quarrel ran high, and anticipating that a severe fracas might ensue Wilson advanced to the parties for the purpose of interfering, and if possible preventing an out-break. He had been but a moment engaged in the endeavor when Schofield, whose hand sped the fatal bullet, rushed forward and struck Wilson. The latter turned and in tones of entreaty begged that he would desist and permit him to separate the combatants. This was the signal for a general row, and, taking advantage of the new turn given to affairs, Curlew started for the door and succeeded in getting outside, and mounting the steps reached the pavement. In the meanwhile Wilson continued his efforts to subdue the quarrel, while Schofield as persistently withheld and fought. Wilson again begged Schofield to desist, when the latter drawing from his pocket a revolver, uttered the words: “You s-n of a b--h, drop!” and fired the weapon.
Wilson dropped to the floor instantly and without uttering a word. Instantly the parties who had been engaged in the controversy fled to the street, led by Schofield. Of the spectators who were in the saloon at the time of the occurrence, but who had taken no part in the controversy, but three or four remained. Altho’ they had heard the report of the pistol, they were not aware of the fatal result of the shot, until advancing they found the body of Wilson stretched at full length on the floor.
Immediate information was conveyed to the police by those who had been unwilling witnesses of a dreadful scene, and surgeons were summoned to attend the murdered man. Drs. B.P. Reynolds and L.A. Winthrop appeared upon the spot within a few minutes after the fatal shot was fired, but their services were of no avail. The wounded man was still insensible, and ceased to breathe about 30 minutes after receiving the wound. The medical examination revealed the fact that the bullet had entered the right temporal bone, passing through the cerebrum and probably lodging in the centre of the brain. The wound was located near the top of the cranium, and about two inches above the ear. The wound was probed and the course of the bullet traced as far as possible. After his death the dead body of Wilson was conveyed to the Central Police Station, where it remained during the night.
The party which proceeded to the pavement in company with Schofield immediately dispersed in all directions. When those who witnessed the terrible affair reached the open air, not one was to be found. The police immediately set to work to ascertain the whereabouts of Schofield and those who were associated with him, but at the hour of 3 o’clock this morning they had not been apprehended.
The deceased was a man about 30 years of age, of sandy complexion, light eyes and medium height. He had formerly been in the service of the United States during the late war, and was said by his associates to have been of a quiet disposition and not inclined to quarreling or altercation. He laves a wife and one child in this city, who, up to the latest intelligence concerning them, resided at No. 101 Sangamon street, in the West division.
The affair was one of the most unprovoked murders which has been recorded in the annuals of crime in this city in many a day. George Schofield, the murderer of Wilson, is a young man who, according to the statements of those who knew him, holds the position of a clerk or book-keeper in one of the large mercantile establishments on Lake street. He had been present in the saloon for an hour or two previous to the murder, and had been engaged in playing the game of billiards. His precipitate flight precluded those who followed him so closely from observing the direction he had taken, but it is probable that if he is not apprehended before this reaches the public eye, his arrest will be accomplished during the day.
An inquest will probably be held over the dead body of Wilson this forenoon, at which time the minute details of the horrible affair will be elicited from those witnesses who saw the transaction from its commencement to its close. The witnesses who testify positively to Schofield’s guilt, and who identify him as the murderer, are many in number, and all bear testimony to the unprovoked character of the
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assault, and the efforts of Wilson towards pacification at
the time the fatal bullet entered his brain.
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb. 9th.
Cold Blooded Murder.
A Clerk Shot Dead on the
Highway.
On Thursday night last one of the most cold-blooded murders was
perpetrated that has ever occurred in our midst. It seems that a man by the name
of Jas. Hughes, who has been a long time in the employ of R.B. Smith & Co.,
the well-known coal dealers on Central avenue, between six and seven o’clock
on that night, was shot and killed on the Lick Run turnpike, one and a half
miles beyond the Brighton House. Mr. Hughes was riding in his buggy at that hour
on his way home, which is in Green township, in the vicinity of the Gurley farm,
and the presumption is that he was murdered on the supposition that he had
considerable money upon his person, as such had been his custom for some years,
during which time he had passed along that road.
The Coroner yesterday morning was notified of the occurrence and immediately impaneled a jury to inquire into the facts.
The first witness called was a boy about 13 years of age, named Leonard Keller, who states that he was at Mr. Metz’s grocery, on the Lick Run Pike, and after having transacted his business he started home, his father’s house being nearly a quarter of a mile distant, and about 50 yards from the road. Immediately behind him, say 40 yards, he saw three men, and about 20 steps to the rear of them a man riding in a buggy, and the three parties kept about the same distance apart till they reached the gate, when the boy turned off. All were quiet till he (the boy) entered the yard, and had gone about half way to the house, when he heard some one halloo:
“Ho! halt! halt!” He immediately turned around, but in a moment he heard three pistol shots, and being frightened, ran home and met his father on the porch of the house, and related what he had seen.
On being questioned closely he said the men were not apparently drunk; that one was a very tall man, and the others of medium size; that he could not tell who it was that cried halt, nor could he say whether the man in the buggy was or was not Mr. Hughes, but supposed it was him, as not more than three minutes intervened between seeing the man in the buggy and finding Mr. Hughes lying dead in the road. He could not describe the dress of the men, but his description of the buggy answered exactly to that in which Mr. H. was riding.
The next witness was the father of the boy – Henry Keller
– who stated that he knew Hughes well; that he was standing on the porch,
waiting for his boy to return from the grocery, when he heard the exclamation,
“Ho! Halt! Ho!” but paid no attention to the voice till he heard the pistols
crack. He then run immediately to the place, and found Hughes already dead
– one of the shots having penetrated the cerebellum, and the others passing
into the stomach. When he reached the spot – two or three minutes after the
firing of the pistols – Hughes was dead.
He states that he knew the deceased well, and, under ordinary circumstances,
would have known, his voice; but he paid no attention to the hallowing at first,
and could not say whether it came from him or some one else. The men ran as soon
as he (Keller) started from the house.
The Chief of Police has started out all his detectives to endeavor, if possible, to ferret them out, which we hope may be done.
The verdict of the Coroner’s jury was, that the deceased
had come to his death by three gun-shot wounds from the hands of persons unknown
to the jury.
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From the Toronto Globe.
Woman’s Inhumanity – How Young Girls are
Ruined in Large Cities.
Last evening two women were arrested by the police on charges similar in their
nature, and so revolting as to make one almost doubt his sense on hearing the
details of their crime. The cases are entirely distinct from each other, but yet
so much alike in almost every circumstance, that it seems strange that two such
melancholy cases should come before our notice at one time. Yesterday, two girls
lately enforced upon a life of shame, in a house on Elizabeth street, were
persuaded to lay information against the persons who seduced them from the path
of virtue. As told by the girls themselves, the story is that both were
inveigled into “houses of assignation”.
The first of the girls, a young and lady-like person, possessed even yet all of the outward charms which make woman lovely, was, it appears, some months ago persuaded to visit the house of a woman named Holmes, alias Marshall, then living at 127 University street, in this city. The girl had no reason, probably, to suspect the character of the woman, and gladly accepted the proffered kindness, which was for a time to remove her from the control of a mother whom she considered harsh, and leave her in charge of her own destiny. At this house she received the visits of a young man, who gave his name as Harris, with the purest intentions. She soon perceived that his intentions were other than the most pure, however, but counseled by the unfeeling wretch into whose charge she had consigned herself, rather submitted to his designs than resist. From this time she was ruined, and became the abject servant of the woman, whose course towards her she at the same time thoroughly detested. But return home she could not, for her first acquaintanceship with the woman was surreptitious, and now shame had hardened her to her fate. The case came to the attention of the police, and the girl was yesterday taken before the authorities when her statement was taken as thus given. The girl states that her father died when she was young, and that afterwards her mother, who is a French Canadian, came to this city and taught school, when she herself, if her statement is credible, was for some time undergoing a course of tuition in the Convent here. She gives her name as Mary Jane Charles. The woman is stated to be the wife of a non-commissioned officer in a staff appointment in the city.
The second, a girl named Fanny Beecher, was ruined in July
last by a woman named Mrs. Black, who was arrested and taken to No. 2 station
last evening. Her record is, if possible, worse than that of the other fiend.
The girl was, while in the house, drugged and then locked up for two hours with
a brute who took advantage of his strength. Since then she has refused to return
home.
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Famine in Europe.
The malls from Europe by the Africa, are filled with accounts of
suffering for lack of food, not only in Great Britain, but on the Continent as
well. Accounts had been previously received of bread riots in London, Liverpool,
and Madrid, and now a dispatch from Paris announces the suppression of a
formidable popular outbreak in Marchiennes, a manufacturing town in the northern
part of France. Yet these do not tell half the story. Italy shares to such an
extent in this great suffering that a statement is wrong from a Roman Catholic
journal that her people, from the Alps to the Appenines, are hungry; and so
scarce is food that in some portions of that country the people are actually
subsisting upon roots, which the fear of starvation compels them to dig and eat.
Throughout the manufacturing districts of Great Britain the
distress is appalling. Relief committees have been organized in many cities and
towns in the United Kingdom, and so general is the dearth of food that the
London Times calls for the appointment of a general relief committee for the
whole of England. The same steamer which brought these tidings also brought
letters from English grain factors expressing great apprehension about the
supply of wheat, and orders from Antwerp for rye at prices which will make the
cost of it delivered there one dollar a bushel in gold, while, heretofore, its
average price in that market has been but three-fifths of that sum. In a word,
the facts at hand warrant the statement that Europe, from the North Sea to the
Mediterranean, is crying for bread.
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From a Washington Letter.
The Next Congress.
Speculation is already rife as to the presiding officers of the next Congress,
for as Senator Foster’s term of office will expire on the 4th of
March, a new President of the Senate will have to be chosen. This letter,
however, is a small matter as compared with the Speakership of the House.
Speaker Colfax is anxious for re-election, and his personal popularity is such
that his prospects are very good. But, recently, it has been ascertained that
there is an undercurrent against him. A number of the leading Radicals are
quietly working in opposition to him, fearing lest he may not give them the
assistance which they will need to secure the success of all their projects.
Thad. Stevens is understood to favor the selection of a new Speaker, as he feels
sorely at being called to order a few days since for his remarks about Mr.
Bingham, of Ohio, and the call being sustained by Speaker Colfax. He has not
named a candidate for the Speakership, but it is believed that he would prefer
the election of some bitter Radical, otherwise too mild to offer the slightest
opposition to any proposition introduced or indorsed by him. Yet it is not
likely that the opposition to the re-election of Colfax will mount to much.
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Frank Leslie’s Magazine – And Madame Demorest’s for
Feb. For sale at E. Darrow & Kempshall’s.
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We Are Constantly Manufacturing a superior quality of Leather Beltin at 5 &
7 Buffalo street. M.F. Reynolds & Co. Repairing done with neatness and
dispatch.
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New Dyeing and Scouring Establishment.
The Undersigned would respectfully inform their friends and the public, that
they have opened a Fancy Steam Dying and Scouring Establishment, in connection
with Dunn’s Bleachery, where the intend to Dye
Silks, Satin, Merino, Laces & Velvet
And Ladies’ and Gents’ Goods of every description.
Straw Goods Dyed All Colors.
All orders punctually attended to and returns made with dispatch.
Having secured the services of a first-class workman from the city of New York,
we will be enabled to compete with anything in that line of business in this
city. Gents Goods Cleaned or Dyed without ripping, in the neatest manner.
Dunn & Co., 119 Buffalo st.
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Amusements!
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Corinthian Hall,
Exchange Place, Rochester, N.Y.
Will be rented for
Concerts, Lectures, Exhibitions, &e.
Apply to Rich’d T.Fleming, Agent, Office, 58 Arcade.
Sam’l Wilder, Proprietor
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Washington Hall,
Cor. Main and Clinton Sts., Rochester, N.Y.
To Let for Exhibitons, Concerts and Lectures. Apply to C.M. Tyler, Agent.
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Opera House.
Four Nights only, with those Distinguished Artists,
Miss Mary Mitchell, And Mr. J.W. Albaugh.
Tuesday Evening, Feb. 12, 1867.
will be produced (first time in this city) the Latest Great Sensation of the
day, to 5 acts, called
Griffith Gaunt, or Jealousy. (Founded on a novel by Charles Reade.)
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Carnival of 1867.
Grand Masquerade.
Arranged by the Rochester Turn Verein, at Washington Hall, Monday Evening, Feb.
18.
Order of Entertainment:
Reception of Guests by the Master of Misrale.
Overture… Orchestra.
By Special Permission.
Of H.I.M., the Tycoon, and the State Department, the Polonaise will be headed by
the
Japanese Embassy,
in full costume. [N.B. – The public is urgently requested to give no cause of
offense to these distinguished foreigners, else their jealous sense of honor
might lead them to commit the national Hari-Kari on the spot.]
Grand Procession!
Introducing Old Father Rhine – (secured at great expense, For This Occasion
Only, per Atlantic Telegraph) in his Chariot drawn by watery chargers, and
surrounded by
16 Gigantic, Allegorical, Mythological, Jovial Bachannals,
Who will execute their Terpsiohorean Feats with Elephantine Grace and Geometric Precision! Various other divertissements will be interspersed with the dances – among the rest (to be kept profoundly secret):
“Swinging Round the Circle”,
And the “Charge of the Bread and Butter Brigade”.
The Carnival Entertainment will close with a scene from Weber’s Immortal Opera, “Der Freischutz”,
By the Turn Verein Choristers, supported by a Full Band under the direction of Prof. Haack.
The Overture will commence at 8 o’clock, precisely. The Procession will enter at 9 ½ o’clock – unmasking at Midnight.
Committee of Arrangements:
Max Lowenthal, Peter Warncke, A. Wintherroth, Aug. Reiff, Louis Krause, D.
Elsheimer, Edward Goers.
Mr. J. Schmitz, Costumer, Buffalo, N.Y., is preparing 150 new, costly and effective suits, which will be on exhibition and for hire, at Hughes & Jacobs’ Temple of Fancy, Main street, the Saturday preceding, and during the day of the Ball.
Tickets… $2.00
Obtainable of Messrs. Winterroth, (Prescott House, opposite Depot), M. Lowenthal, (at Rosenblatt’s), A. Hodenbeck, (Arcade), and the members of the Committee.
No Tickets Sold at the Door.
Maskers only can join in the dance up to twelve o’clock.
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Grand United States
Concert, at Rochester, N.Y.
100,000 Valuable Presents.
$50,000 in Greenbacks Given Away
The best Chance that has been offered.
No Humbug About This
This Concert will be conducted honorably, and all the Presents advertised will be distributed fairly, impartially and without reserve. All parties wanting tickets send for them at once. All orders will be immediately filled. Number of Tickets issued 300,000.
Price, $1 Each.
1 Gift in Greenbacks….. $20,000.
1 Gift in Greenbacks…..5,000.
1 Gift in Greenbacks…. 2,500.
10 Gift in Greenbacks….$1,000…….$10,00.
10 Gift in Greenbacks….$500………$5,000.
10 Gift in Greenbacks….$100………$1,000.
20 Gift in Greenbacks….$50………..$1,000.
40 Gift in Greenbacks….$25………..$1,000.
200 Gift in Greenbacks….$10………$2,000.
300 Gift in Greenbacks….$5………..$2,500.
30 Pianos….$500……….….$15,000.
10 Melodeons,.. $150………..$1,500.
50 Family Bibles,… $20……...$1,000.
100 Gold Watches,.. $150…....$15,000.
100 Ladies Gold Watches, $100….$10,000.
100 Silver Watches, ..$65…………..$6,500.
100 Silver Watches,.. $40…………$4,000.
20 Sewing Machines,…$100….…$2,000.
Other Gifts worth………………$45,000.
The distribution will take place after the Concert, in such lawful manner as the ticket holders may determine. Price of tickets, $1.00 each; sent by mail on receyt of price and 3 cent stamp for return postage.
Special Terms, or Club Rates,
We will send
5 Tickets to one address, for…….$1.50
10 Tickets to one address, for……$9.00
20 Tickets to one address, for …..$17.50
40 Tickets to one address, for……$34.00
Send the name of each subscriber and their post office address, with Town, County and State in full.
Money by Draft, Post Office order or Express may be sent at our risk.
All communications should be addressed to
W.B. Barnes, Manager, Rochester, N.Y.
Agents wanted everywhere.
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Gymnasium.
Butts’ Block, Main St., Cor. Stone.
Ladies and Misses Class in the Gymnastics on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10 ½ A.M. to 12 M., commencing Feb. 5th, 1867.
Boys, under 15, class, on the above days, from 3 ½ to 4 ½ P.M.
Gymnasium open every day from 3 to 6 and 7 ½ to 9 ½ P.M.
W.P. Shadders, Rochester, Jan. 28, 1866.
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Dancing School,
New Term, Crystal Palace Block, Main Street.
Mr. A.M. Cobleigh’s School for Dancing and Deportment, every Saturday,
commencing Jan. 4th, 1867. – Ladies, at 3 P.M., Tuesday’s;
Children at 2 ½ P.M., Saturday’s; Gentlemen 7 ½ P.M., Friday’s. Circulars
containing terms, &c., can be obtained at D.M. Dewey’s, Arcade.
Rochester, Sept. 20th, 1866.
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Dancing School,
Wamsley Hall, in the Marble Block.
Mr. J.M. Thomson’s School for dancing and Deportment
opens on the 19th of October. Ladies Class from 4 to 6 P.M.,
Children’s from 2 to 4 P.M. Gentlemen from 8 to 10 P.M. For terms, &c.,
see Circular, Rochester, Oct. 5th, 1866.
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Terrapin Saloon,
St. Paul street, next to Opera House Entrance
Andrew Kaltenbach, Prop’r.
Frederick Shoelz’s Billiard Hall,
Over Terrapin Saloon, St. Paul st.
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Perfumed Note Paper –
For Ladies, at Dewey’s.
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Empire Mills,
No. 3 North Water Street.
Ellis & Haseltine.
Best Family Flour, Corn Meal, Buckwheat Flour, Oats, Feed
&c., at wholesale and retail. Custom grinding promptly attended to.
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Mrs. M. Cross, Hoop
Skirt Manufactory.
Hoop Skirts made to Order and Repaired, on short notice. Over 70 State St. Mrs.
M. Cross.
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D.W. Leary’s Rochester
City Dye House,
On Mumford Street, - (Opposite the Gas House.) Every description of Goods dyed
and finished with the utmost care and dispatch. Goods received and returned by
Express. D.W. Leary, Rochester, N.Y.
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Union Carpet Sweeper,
Best in Use. Just Received at Howe & Rogers’, 35
State Street.
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Central Dining Saloon
Public Entrance Corner of Main and Water sts. Private entrance corner of Main
and Liberty sts. This saloon has lately been refitted and refurnished, and steam
apparatus – a new feature in this city – introduced for the cooking of
Oysters. Dining room and private rooms attached. The bar is kept bountifully
stocked with the choicest wines, liquors, ales, and cigars.
Oyster Price List.
Oyster Stews, plain…25c
Oyster Stews, milk…30c
Oysters, raw………..30c
Oysters, fried………40c
Clams and Oysters at wholesale prices, cheap as anywhere in the city. Dinner from 12 ½ to 2 P.M., daily – price 40 cts. Day boarders taken at $3.50 per week. Thos. Goff, Proprietor
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Orphan Asylum
Association!
The Association has been operated for the purpose of raising funds to erect one
of the most charitable institutions ever erected in the United States. To
encourage this great and good undertaking, a company has been started under the
title of the “Orphan Asylum Association”. With this view the Association
proposes to give a Grand Promenade Concert at Medina, N.Y., on Friday, February
22d, 1867, for which they will issue association membership tickets, at the
uniform price of one dollar each, which will make the holder a member of the
Association, admit him to the Concert, and also entitle him to a participation
in the award of prizes immediately after the Concert, as hereafter specified.
The Directors of the Association have determined, in order to have donated the
required amount of money in the shortest space of time, to offer $500,000 in
prizes, to be distributed to the members throughout the entire country.
Distribution to commence immediately after the close of the entertainment. The
large number of premiums, which are unprecedented in the annals of such
distributions, will include the following gigantic scheme:
600,000 Tickets of Membership to the Orphan Asylum Association.
$500,000 in Prizes.
Capital Prize, $30,000 in Cash!
List of Prizes:
1 Gift in Greenbacks…. $30,000.
1 Gift in Greenbacks…...$10,000.
1 Gift in Greenbacks…...$5,000.
1 Orchard, 17 acres, in Niagara County…$6,500.
1 House and Lot in Middleport, Niagara Co. ….. $2,500.
20 Gifts in Greenbacks, $1,000 each….$20,000.
20 Gifts in Greenbacks, $500 each…. $10,000.
20 Gifts in Greenbacks, $100 each…$2,000.
20 Gifts in Greenbacks, $50 each…. $1,000.
800 Gifts in Greenbacks, $10 each…. $8,000.
5000 Gifts in Greenbacks, $5 each…. $5,000.
Residence in Medina…… $5,000.
A farm of 75 Acres in Orleans Co., N.Y……$5,000.
40 Gifts in Pianos, $500 each…..$20,000
20 Gifts in Melodeons, $150 each…. $3,000.
100 Gifts in Bibles, $20 each……$2,000.
200 Gifts in Gold Watches, $150 each….$30,000.
200 Gifts in Gold Watches, $100 each…. $20,000.
200 Gifts in Silver Watches, $65 each…. $18,000.
200 Gifts in Silver Watches, $40 each….$12,000.
1,000 Sets Plated Tea Spoons, 3 each….$3,000.
1,000 Call Bells, $3 each……………….$3,000.
1,000 Masonic Emblems, $250 each……$2, 500.
2,000 Gold Pens in Cases, $4.00 each………..$8,000.
2,000 Gold Pens in Cases, $?.00 each …….. $10,000.
19,627 Masonic Charts, $?.00 each …………..$$288,045.
15,457 Masonic Monitors, $1.00 each………..$15,457
Manner of Drawing.
The drawing will take place after the concert. A committee will be applied by the audience to take charge of the same. The plan of drawing adopted, is the following: Duplicated numbers from 1 to 600,000 are placed in a wheel. The first number drawn out takes the biggest prize, the next, the next highest prize, and so on until the whole number of prizes are drawn.
$100,000 to be donated to the purpose of building a Masonic Orphan Asylum at Medina, N.Y.
Great inducements offered to agents, who are wanted everywhere. Write for our terms and send references.
Special Terms, or Club Rates:
5 Tickets to one address…..…$4.50
10 Tickets to one address……..9.00
20 Tickets to one address…....17.00
40 Tickets to one address…....35.00
50 Tickets to one address…....43.00
In every case send the name of each subscriber and their Post Office address.
Money by Drafts, P.O. Order Express, or in Registered Letters, may be sent at our risk.
All agents and purchasers will be supplied with a printed list of awards immediately after the concert and distribution.
All orders by mail should be addressed to the Orphan Asylum Association, Medina, N.Y.
By permission the Association refers to the following persons:
Whitney & Rice, 180 Broadway, N.Y., Jewelry Manufacturers.
S.S. Gimrodo & Co., N. Attleboro, Mass., Jewelry
Manufacturers.
John N. Hallenbeek, 506 Broadway, Clothier.
G.W. Pitcher & Co., 179 Broadway, Jewelry Manufacturers.
J.A. Babcock & Co., 60 John St., N.Y., Silver Plated Manufacturers.
ABM. J. Van Winkle, 9 Spruce St., N.Y. Paper House.
Giles Wales & Co., 13 Maiden Lane, N.Y., Watch
Importers.
B.C. Blake, Medina, N.Y., Treasurer of the Asylum Fund.
N.B. – There are six series of tickets, numbered to
100,000 each, so that a number drawn in one series will not entitle the holder
of the same number in another series to a prize. The series are designated by
letters from “A” to “F” inclusive.
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Abbott’s Digest – New volume.
Just published and for sale by Steele & Avery. 49 State St.
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Great Closing Out Week – at
Ocumpaugh’s, 10 Main Street Bridge.
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By Railroad -
Staple Groceries daily receiving daily by railroad, and for sale in strict
accordance with New York quotations, and to which we invite the attention of
city and country retailers. Smith & Perkins, 27, 29 & 31 Exchange st.
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S. Neale, Manufacturer and Dealer
in Umbrellas and Parasols.
A large assortment of Umbrellas, wholesale and retail, at New York prices,
corner of Buffalo cb
Rochester, Monroe, N.Y.
Daily Democrat
Feb. 27, 1867
PLAYED OUT - Is the title of a new novel from the ever fresh and vigorous pen of Miss Annie THOMAS, author of "Theo
Leigh," "Playing for High Stakes," "On Guard," etc., etc. It is No. 288 of Harper's Library
of Select Novels, in which cheap, yet attractive form, it will be sought after by Miss THOMAS' many admirers.
FOREIGN PRISONERS - Sheriff SMITH of Steuben Co., arrived in this city yesterday afternoon with two prisoners named
J. B. MILLARD, sentenced to Auburn State Prison 2 years and 3 months for grand larceny; and (- ---) DARING, 5 years
and 3 months for burglary. The prisoners were taken east last evening by the sheriff.
ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING - U. S. Deputy Marshal KEENEY, of this city, arrested on Monday at Buffalo a fellow named
Lucius A. SERRITT, who is charged with smuggling kid gloves from Canada.
The examination took place before Commissioner STORRS, and was adjourned to next Monday.
ENTERED BAIL - Frank NEFF, the fellow who assaulted John MYERS and struck him with a stone a few days since on
the corner of Main and Scio streets, entered bail yesterday to await the action of the Grand Jury.
MYERS is slowly recovering.
EXAMINED TO-DAY - It is probable that ELLSWORTH and WILSON, the two young
villians who attempted to take the life
of Mr. KRAFTS, last Friday, will be examined today. It is expected that Mr. KRAFTS will be able to appear and give
his testimony in the case.
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