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WILMINGTON, DEL., SATURDA Y. SEPTEMBER 11, 1875.
1-NO-18.
,RY OF THE
been restored in Mississippi.
[ Cooper has devised a plan for
fransit Line.
>ut the West heavy rains have
n-eek, doing considerable dam.
allack has earned a temporary
[gainst Aguatin Daily, restrain
L producing the play entitled
severe storm at Ottumwa, Iowa,
lorning, several persons
iglitning and a great deal of
roamed.
th of this month the District
iany will open
the transmission of messages
L country and Europe
[of.Iowa has beeu visited by
|erc rain storms that have been
| in that State for many years,
level a! lives lost and the dam
lr(v is incalculable.
I the Custom House and Post
itlier public buildings in New
rday, were displayed at half
icet to tlie memory of the late
drulf.
were
their office in
fur
Iraphic Dispatches are furnished to
\ Herald, ly the American Dress
I over the Atlantic and Pacific
I Co's wires.
L Weather To-day.
few England and the Middle States,
partly clear or cloudy weather, with
9 northwest winds and rising ba
rnal Revenue Receipts.
[gton, Sept. 10.—The receipts to
litcral revenue were $417,619.14 ;
[ms, $719,198.85.
editorial Excursion.
[a., Sept. 10.—The Texas Editorial
lists, arrived in this city Inst eve
10, from Pittsburg. They will
day here, and an excursion will be
them.
Storm in New York
foRK, Sep. 10. — A violent rain
eornpanied by high wind prevailed
•noon
rds evening it ceased and the
lenred up cooler.
The rain fell in torrents
political Nomination. <
uervis, N. Y., Sept. 10.—lion.
Illurnett, of Stroudsburg, Pa., has
Inated for State Senator by the Dc
pf Monroe couuty, Pa., for tlicdis
cr an agreement that the nomfna-.
be concurred in by Pike and Carbon
| England Excursion Party.
Lk, Va., Sept. 9. —The steamer
mom. Bridgeport, Conn., arrived
afternoon with an excursion party
land gentlemen, numbering about
k are well, and enjoying the trip
li.
irvln and Herzegovina.
Bide, Sept. 19.—The formal open
R Servian Skuptchina occurred yes
Irrince Milan, In his speech, refer
ln indefinite language, to the trou
[Bosnia and Herzegovina.. lie said
[on his people's support, in the Sfer
[ imposed by the grave crisis.
plain at Fort Matllson.
IMadison, Iowa, September 10.—
[viest rain storin of the season oc
bere on Wednesday evening. Gut'
rc washed out and bridges swept
id trains arc behind •time. The
M River is rising very rapidly at"
fit, and, from the general prospect
cof water will be such that boa* g '
nabled to cross the lower rapids.
tlatne of Stonewall Jackson.
more, Sept. 10.—The steamship
otiun, which arrived at this port
y afternoon from Liverpool, brought
bronze statue of General Thomas J.
i the famous Confederate leader,
d to the State of Virginia by Hon.
d Hope, M. P., 'and other En
ntlcmen. The statue cost $40,000i
* be erected in the Qapitol Square at
,l( b Va., near the equestrian statue
lington.
lood and Ntormf In Iowa,
ixgton, Iowa., September 10.—A
flood of rain deluged tills city
day night about 1 o'clock, and eon
fight hours, damaging property to
mt of $40,000 by 3 o'clock.. Cellars
fellings were inundated and yards
ged. Tlie loss will foot up as fol
cliroder & Co., wholesale dry goo Is,
$20,000; Donahue, McCost & Co.,
! the Orchard City Agricultural
lose $3,000; M. G. Stool & Co., $10,
hesG. Carmc & Deraty, $12,000;
hirrison's Elevator, Harrison's Lum
r 'l, Davis & Gille's Plaining Mills
**• Hertzcycr's Wagon Factory and
Porkhouse were sufferers from
500 each.
B
WASHINGTON.
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL
Peace Entirely Restored.
Washington, Sept. 10.— A telegram bas
just been received by the Attorney-General
from the Sheriff of Hinds county, Miss., re
porting that perfect peace prevails through
out that county.
The peace officers are not prevented from
executing the legal process, and good citi
zens, the Sheriff telegraphs, will.ald him In
the discharge of his duties if needed. The
Attorney-General expresses the opinion that
the difficulties are at an end. He still awaits
a response to his telegram this morning to
Governor Ames.
The M isslMlppl Trouble.
Washington, Sept. 10.—The Attorney
General to-day telegraphed to Governor
Ames requesting information regarding the
present condition of affairs In the recently
reported disturbed portions of MlssisS|>pi,
aud is now expecting a reply.
A dispatch has been received In response
to the telegram from the Attorney-General,
Inquiring ns to the whereabouts of Secretary
Fish, announcing that that gentleman is at
his country seat on the Hudson, and that he
will meet the Attorney-General at any point
he may designate, to confer upon the sub.
jeet of a proclamation.
In this telegram the Attorney-General' re
plies, informing the Secretary of State of
his telegram of this date to Governor Ames
and delaying tbe prop&scd conference until
after a reply to that telegram shall have
been received, the character of which It Is
judged may be such that no further action
will be necessary by the General Govern
ment.
All (Inlet in Mississippi.
Washington, Sept. lO.-Early this morn
ing Attorney-General Pierrepout telegraphed
to Governor Ames, at Jackson, Mis6., noti
fying him that the Federal troops were In
readiness to assist the State authorities in
preserving the peace, but as yet no or
ders have been issued for their action, aud
no proclamation had been issued, and ask
ing the Governor i£ there really existed an
insurrection or disturbances so formidable
that it could not be suppressed by the State
military, aided by all tlie powers invested in
the State authorities, and requesting that an
immediate reply be returned. Up to a late
hour to-night, the Attorney-General had not
heard a word from Governor Ames, and la
a conversation with the Agent of the Amer
ican press association on the subject, he ex
pressed the opinjon that the troubles had
passed away, and that there would be no
necessity for Federal interference, that the
non-receipt of a reply from Governor Ames
fully warranted this view of the case. He
said if the Governor really believed that the
peace of the State was in danger, he would
certainly have sent a prompt reply to my
During j the day the Attorney
message.
General has received a despatch from the
Sheriff of Linden county and the Sheriff at
Jacksonand also from other sources,all con
curring in the statement that there was no
disturbance or excitement in the State, that
peace and quiet had been fully restored.
The President this afternoon telegraphed the'
Attorney-General that he fully approved of
his course.
Presentation to cardinal Mt-Closkey.
Rome, Sept. 10.—The Americans In this
city have presented Cardinal McCloskey
with a dress nnd a jewelled mitre.
Royalists in Conference.
Borne, Sept. 10,—The Duke Dicazer the
French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the
Prince Goodsehakc were in Conference to
day at Intcrlack.cn.
Railroad Accident. *
Lansing, Iowa, Sept. 40.—The north
bound train on the Chicago, Dubuqne &
Minnesota Railroad met with a serious ac
cident yesterday. Three miles south of
this city the baggage and two passenger
cars were thrown from the high bank into
the river. Fifteen persons were injured,
three or four seriously. None were killed.
Tlie cause of the accident is supposed to be
a defective tie.
Coniitorf.-'iters In HI. I*oni«,
St. Louis, Mo., Sept, 10.—This city
to be flooded with well executed coun
seems
terfeit fives and tens, and since the arrest of
the four counterfeitrs last week, with two
hundred thousand in tlieir possession. ■ The
detectives have been,on the watch, and they
profess to have made discoveries, which will
In a few days lead to a wholesale arrest of
the counterfeiters, who have made this city
the distributing poiut, and the capture of
the largest amount of counterfeit money
which has ever been detected. It is hinted
that several men here, and elsewhere, of
and business standing, are involved
means
in tte business, and that when- the cost is
worked up the evidence against them will
be conclusive. A number of important ar
rests have bee a made in Tennessee and
Alabama, and a large number of the shovers
expected to be captured at Houston and
and Galveston, in Texas.
are
The political thermometer falleth.
A ROMANCE,Of THE BOIL.
NEW ALBION AND THE SETTLEMENTS ON
THE DELAWARE.
The following interesting historical poiut
is gleaned from an address recently deliv
ered by Prof. Dubbs, of Franklin and Mar
shall College: In 1648 a little English book
was published at Middleburg, Holland, a
c6py of which is preserved in the Philadel-'
phia Library, which hears this title: "A De
scription of the Province of New Albion,
and a direction of adventurers with small
stock to get two for one and good land
freely
Master Robert Evelyn, that lived there many
years, showing the particulars tbereof.
This volume purports to be a description
by a certain -Beuchamp Flantagenet, of the
province of New Albion, the property of Sir
Robert Ployden, whieh appears to have been
situated, in part, at least, within the present
limits of the States of Pennsylvania and
Delaware. The settlement is said to have
been under the direction of the "Albion
Knights for the Conversion of the Twenty
three Heathen Kings." There are glowing
descriptions of no less than ten magnificent
lordships and manors, said to be occupied
by valiant knights and gentle dames, one of
whom, a certain Lady Barbara, is called tlie
mirror of wit and beauty. Ons of these
manors, Mount Ployden, Is described as "the
seat of the Raritan King, on the north side
of the province, twenty miles from Landbay
Sea nnd ninety miles from the ocean, next
to Amara Hill, the retired paradise of the
Ethiopian Emperor." There is a certain
element of truth underlying all this high
sounding jargon, but how much of the book
consists of mere guess-work it is now im
possible to ascertain. It has, however, been
discovered that Ployden actually received
from Charles I. a grant to a province In
America, including the greater part of New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, and that he visited
tills country for the purpose of founding a
colony, which proved a failure in conse
quence of financial embarrassment s. On this
slender foundation it is probable that Beau
champ Plantagenet foVmded the story of
New Albion, with all its gorgeous chivalry.
A FREE READING ROOM.
THE tOSY ROOM AT THIRD AND KING—AN
EVENING DROP-IN.
A great many of us are unaware of the
existence of the reading jroom of the Dela
ware Institute of Mechanic Arts. The
Herald man was until la6t evening, when
his steps were turned that way, and he for
the first time entered a large, comfortable
room, and drew hi6 chair to a tabic covered
with all kinds of papers. Some half dozen
were in at the time, with the dailies in their
hands. The reading room is free, and is
open from seven until ten o'clock every
evening. Twelve dailies are taken by the
Institute, a. few weeklies and the various
magazines. The room is finely lighted and
in every way comfortable; the gentleman
who acts as librarian courteous and oblig
ing. This is already an excellent place for
our young menknd the news-hunting por
tion of the old gentletaen to spend a profit
able and assuredly pleasant evening. It
can be made, however, much more attrac
tive than it is now by the addition of files
and a larger number of periodicals. There
is an embryo library to be noticed in one cor
ner, too. There is no reason why this
should not grow and eventually become as
large and much frequented as the Institute
Library at 8th.and Market.
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together with a letter from
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ROW IN HEDGEVILLE.
SAMUEL SWIGETTE ATTACKED BY A CROWD
OF ROUGHS—A LIVELY SCUFFLE—ARREST
OF SOME OF THE OFFENDERS.
Hedgeville, on Wednesday night, was the
scene of a lively row, which might have
proved a serious one.
It seems that a party of roughs, incensed
against (he colored man Swigettc, whose
wife recently committed suicide, alleging
.that her hnsband maltreated her-, formed
the determination to mob him and his friends.
The attack was made about eleven o'clock,
but the party were deterred by the pistol of
Joshua Johnson, a friend of Swigette, who
did not hesitate io make good use of Ills
weapon. The affair ended without serious
results, fortunately, but yesterday Johnson
made complaint at Police Headquarters and
Joseph Lacy and John Smith, Jr., but wit
nesses failed to identify tbe former, and he
was discharged. The latter, after a hearing
was required to pay the costs and furnish
bail to the amount of $200 to keep the peace.
The Mayor,however, did not justify Johnsnn
In using the pistol and he was fined $1, for
the offence. Warrants for the arrest of
other parties have been Issued, but the offi
cers, as yet, have failed to find them.
. FATAL ACCIDENT.
A YOUNG MAN KILLED AT FARMINGTON.
On Friday last, Ellas, Bon of Elias T.
Booth, near Farmfngton, met with a terri
ble accident, which resulted in'death in less
than twenty-four hours. He was hauling
a heavy log from the woods,swinging under
two pair of wheels, when the fore wliedis
fell into a deep rut, from which the team
could not extricate them. To aid in extri
cating it,the fore wheels were detached from
the bind ones and the team bitched to the
felloe of one of the fore wheels, while the
young man hold down the tougue of thr
cart. The weight ol the log swinging on
the wheels, caused .the tongue to act as a
lever, which possibly two or three men
might have managed, but which Elias was
not able to do, and when the team started
the tongue flew up carrying him high in tlie
air. He came down striking his side heavily
across the log. His hack did not appear to
be broken, but ho was so severely injured
internally that he died on Saturday in great
agony, ne was about eighteen years of
age, dearly beloved by his parents and es
teemed by all who knew him.— hews.
Chief Brady will continno to administer
the law to the unruly in the capacity of a
Justice of the Peace, when he goes out from
his present office.
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CHARLIE ROBB.
The Trial of Westervelt.
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A LARGER CROWD THAN EVER—TnE PRIS
ONER'S. APPEARANCE—THE COMMON
WEALTH CONCLUDES—THE PRISONER'S
WIPE AS A WITNESS—SCENES- AND IN
CIDENTS, &C.
With each sur ceedjng day the interest in
this trial increases, and on yesterday the
crowd that assembled in the court room to
hear the proceedings was greater than on
any preceding day. Tbe evidence which has
been elicited within the past day or so'has
evidently created some alarm in the prison
er, and ills face wears an expression of
painful anxiety. His wife and children
who have been with him every day since the
trial begun, were present, and seemed to
be under a subdued influence. At the open
ing of court yesterday morning, Mr.'nagert
announced to the court that the Common"
wealth rested, which was received by the
spectators with some surprise, as they had
not expected the conclusion so soon. And
when Mr. Eord arose to address the jury for
the defence, a breathless silence ensued.
He clulmed.f or his clieifl not mercy hut jus
tice, and urged the jury to decided the case
entirely on its merits and the evidence pro
duced. The speaker appeared as the un
paid counsel of. a poor and innocent man,
who, for five months, has been eagerly wait
ing for this trial that his innocence might
be established. This man had not the pow
erful aid of wealth and friends to enable
him to ransack New York and bring witnes
ses from afar. If that were possible It
would be easy to prove where he was and
what he was doing at all the dates that had
been cited iu the evidence against him. It
had been the purpose of counsel to indro
duee no testimony at all, but their client de
manded, as an act of justice, that he and
his wife should be allowed to give their
statements under the solemn obligation of
the oath, and that other testimony tending
to establish his innocence should be intro
duced. The testimony would be necessarily
brief, but it would have tlie weight of truth.
During the address of Mr. Ford, Mrs.
Westervelt and her little daughter, wept
freely, and the prisoner himself sefimed con
siderably affected.
Mrs. Mary O'Leary was the first witness
called for the defense,.and testified that she
lived on Monroe street iu Philadelphia. She
knew Westervelt and his sister, Mrs.
Mosher (or Henderson). Her evidence re
lated to tlie dates at which they were in hel
house and neighborhood. Westervelt liar,
boarded next door to her, but left in thd
spring, and She saw no more of him untie
the following August, the Saturday before
Mrs. Henderson left for New York.
The next witness was Miss Kate Morgan.
She went to live with Mrs. Henderson
(Mosher) three or four days before her con
finement, the 10th of July, and remained
with her until see went to New York, on
the 19th of August, and she never saw Wes
tervelt until the Saturday before Mrs.
Mosher went to New York. That was the
last she saw of him until she saw him in
the eourt-rcom. She saw no one with her
when she went to the depot except the
children. An anonymous feature in the do
mestic life of Mosher was developed in the
course of this witness' testimony.
It is almost a certainty that Mosher, the
father of "the children" mentioned by wit
ness, was the stealer ot Charlie Ross, the
man who, with unexa'mpled cruelty, disre
garded utterly the sentiment of parental
love where others were concerned, and by
his acts gave the world a right to suppose
that he did-not know what love and tender
ness meant; yet his own children had pet
names in the household, and his boy Charlie
was known altogether at home by the name
of "Lovcy.
witness testified to 6eeing Henderson and
Clark (Mosher and Douglass) at the house
with Mrs. Moslier the day before her con
finement.
Mrs. McElroy was called and gave evi
dence in corroboration of that given by the
two preceding witnesses. Her testimony,
like theirs, related to IPestervelt's presence
in Philadelphia in July.
The prisoner's wife was the next witness
called, and as she took the stand the ex
pression of anxiety on her face was greatly
intensified, and she waited with no smal
degree of emotion for the questioning to
commence. There was a lull iu the proecel
ings for a lew moments, a consultation
among counsel on both sides, and then Mr.
Hagert arose and expressed an objection to
the examination of the witness. She was
the wife of the prisoner, and in the case of
a man charged with a misdemeanor the wife
of the man is disqualified as a witness. The
Act of Assembly permitting a defendant to
testify in his own behalf make him a witness
of him only at his own request,An
he has requested to be examineoyn
disability is not removed. Therefore he de -
sired to know whether the defendant was to
be called as a witness ? If so, he made nol
objection to the tettimony of the wife being
taken. Otherwise he did object.
Tbe witness was then sworn, and testified
as follows: I reside at No. 79 Montgomery
street, New York; I was married to tht
prisoner In New York in Wfllctt Street
Methodist Church, on the 29th of Septem
ber, 1863; have had three children; two are
now living aud are now In court; prior to
Januar
On cross-examination this
d unless
is wife's
to
y, 1874, I. resided at No.71 Willett
New York city; my. husband was a
police officer then in the Tenth precinct: was
appointed August 5, 1872; I came here oneo
on a visit to see Mr. Mosher about Septem
ber 8,1873, and Mrs. Mosher's husband was
putting up a preparation to kill moths, and
other insects, and he used to sell It in Balti
more and around the neighborhood, Mosher
and my husband were not companions; they
were not together much while we were In the
house in Monroe street; when they were in
the house they sat and talked together;
Mosher very seldom came to onr room and
they very seldom went out together.
After a recess of threequartersof an hour
the examination of the witness was resumed
and she testified as follows :
On the morning of the 6th of July we did
not get up very early, and after breakfast
he took a pillow and the ironing blanket, and
went into the entry and slept most all day;
he had a moustache that day, the same as
he always wore; he had no whiskers on that
day; up to tho middle of August be was
street
about the police office all the time, trying to
get back on the force; on the 7th of July he
was in and out; I remember him going to
s on the po
know it was
different parties on different day
lice affair; I can't exactly say; I
about tbe police affair all the time; became
borne every day, and would ask him how be
had succeeded; he was not away from home
any time in July; he was not away any night
In the month of July; -after I left Philadel
phia in April I couldn't exactly say when I
first saw WUttpi Mosher; I remember see
ing him in inmost; I saw him twice between
the 11th and 14th; I can't think whether I
saw him before or not; it was after the con
finement of his Wife; my husband did not
see him oh both occasions; on the first occa
sion he came Infamy'house about 2 o'clock;
I was sewing; and he asked me where my
husband was, and I told him he was owt ; I
shouldn't think be remained, more than
twenty minutes; I asked him how his family
was, and if Martha bad a baby, and it it
was born on the 4th of July; he said he
didn't know when it was born; his wife was
born on the 4th of July and she had said to
me that she would like her baby to be born
on that day; she afterwards told me it
was born on the 13th; he went away,
and said he would call again in
a day or so : I think it was a day or two
after that I saw him ; my husband ffot a let
ter from his liwyer, Colonel Fellowes, on
the day Mosher made his second call; the
purport of that letter was to appear as pos
sible In his ease ; he was blacking his shoes
to go when Mosher came in; on the first oc
casion Mosher eamc by himself ftnd the
second time Douglass was with him; he
asked my husbafrt where he was going;
my husband was hurrying as quick as he
could to go to his lawyer; Mosher said he
would till he came hack to see what success
he had ; my husband came back with the
letters ; it was about noon when Mosher and
Douglass came, and he remained there until
they got back between 2 and 3 o'clock ; my
husband brought a letter from his lawyer,
saying counsel fee and your fee was $50;
nothing occurred; we had dinner then; 1
think they stayed till after dinner; I can't
say positively that the three went out to
gether, but It seems to me they did.
1 think the next time I sa v Mosher and
Douglass, was after Mrs. Mosher came to
our house; she came with the four children
on Angust 20th, about .o'clock in the
morning ; my husband was going on a pic
nic that morniug ; in speaking of the pic
nic before 1 should nave said that the 4tli of
July pic-nio was that of Dahlgren Post, G.
A. 1!., and that that of tlie 5th, was the J.
J. O'Briue Cluq, and file pic-nic of August
20th, was Father Mooney's; my husband
was employed on these pic-nics by the par
ties who had the bars, and who paid him
for tending bar; he did not get paid on the
pic-nic of August 20th, for three or four
days after; it was four or five days after
that that I saw Mosher or Douglass; I can't
say whether they came together or not, but
Mosher eamc ; anyway it was very early in
the morning; I suppose he came to see his
wife; I never invited him to come and see
us; I can't say when I next saw eithdr
Mosher or Douglass ; I don't recollect either
of them coming there after that; Mrs.
Mosher came there on the 20th of August,
with her four children, and occupied the
Same room I did.
Her eldest child was Willie,aged nine years,
the second Charlie,sometimes called "Lovie
Do4ie," aged 4 years last March, the next
was Georgie, aged 8 months,in August 1874
and the next the bady whom Mrs. Mosher
said was then 5 weeke old when she came
to our house ; Georgie is now dgad, with
the exception of the baby these are the
same children that sho had when I was liv
ing with her in Monroe street.
Q—Describe the appearance of Charlie or
as they called him " Lovie Dovie."
A—He had blue eyes, light hair, a round
full face, a rough, coarse skin ; the hair was
very light and did not curl.
Q—What relation was Mrs. Mosher to
your husband.
A—She" was his sister. I am no relation
to ,1/r. Mosher, and would not want to be;
Mrs. Mosher remained at my house off and
on for four months after she came from
Philadelphia; during that time I did not
see Mosher or Douglass except the times I
have mentioned; before Mrs. Mosher came
on on tlie 20th of August jny husband was
onee,away over night hut I can't say exactly
when ; it was somewhere around the 14th
of August about the time Mosher and
Douglass were at our house ; I knew he was
going away as lie told me of it,
he said he was going to help liie sister move;
I think that was the time he took the seven
o'clock train on and came back in tlie three
o'clock train; the next day lie said it was a
2.25 train; I.made a mistake when I stated
he went and came on the trains just
mentioned, on June25th; hewas gonelonger
than that iu June, I know he was; Mrs.
Moslier left our house some time in Janu
ary, 1875;
Henry street all that time; I .moved to 868
Madison street on the 21st of September or
October, and Mrs. Mosher moved with me;
this house was also a tenement house, but.
had stores underneath; we occupied there
three rooms on the third floor front; paid $8
rent for them a month; the house was not
as respectable looking as the Henry street
one.
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I had not been living at 298
Q. What was your husband doing all this
time, since the 20th day of August up to
the time you moved to Madison street?
A. Part of the time lie was trying to get
on the cars, and part of it he was on them;
sometimes he worked at Wash
ington Market; lie would work a
day at • anything he conld get;
he got on the Eighth avenne cars finally as
conductor; Superintendent Walling gave
him a letter to go on the ears and ti!«o one
to the Fire Commissioners to go on the
Fire Department; that letter I have seen and
have in my possession still; neither Mosher
nor Douglass ever called at our house on
Madlsou street; I next saw them the Satur
day before they were killed; Mrs. Mosher
was not living at my house then; she was
away with the two youngest children and I
had the two oldest at my house; in conse
quence of a communication I received 1 took
the children to her and everything that be
longed to her to 184 Houston street; that is
the last time I saw Mosher and Douglass; I
saw Mosher nine days after he was killed; I
remember nothing' unusual happening in our
domestic circle between December 12th and
13th of April, 1875. I recollect the 13th of
April very well; we lived then at 39 Mont- of
gomcry street and had been living there
sinee February; weoccupiedauatticthen; iny
hnsbund was there, and had been since Feb- tbe
ruary 10, employed by Adams Express Co.;
a situation obtained for him by Superinten
dent Walling; my husband came to Phila
delphia on April 13tb, by Superintendent
Walling's orders; he told, me to get up
early iu the morning and ge't him a cup of
coffee before he went away; he said also
that Superintendent Walling had told him
that people Iu 1 hiladelpbia thought be
kuew morfe of the Ross case than he had
told, and'it would be better for him to. go
on and state to them all that he knew :
that lie told Walling he had no money, and
to this the latter said: "Don't let that
keep you, here is $10;'' that be said that
was too much, it wtfald not take all that,"
bu( Walling answered, " Never mind, you
can keep it, you will need that to get some
thing to eathe said also that Superin
tendent Walling had telegraphed that he
Westervelt, would take the 0 a. m. train,
but that he afterwards said he should get
up earlier than that and take an earlier
train, dnd return in the afternoon; I got to
work next day; my husband gave me no
money, and when he left all I had in
I Hid not
day
him in court; Mrs.
Peers paid me a visit in June or July,
187.5; I think she asked me how-my husband
looked when he went away, if he had a full
heard, if he was pale, and if that was his
natural look; I told her he had a moustache
and side whiskers of three weeks' growth;
she said she would like to help me, and alBO
that my husband was very pale and thin.
At this point Mr. Ford said he thought
had closed his examinatiou-in-chie^ 1
would reserve the right to recall the witness
and ask her a few additional questions in the
morning.
After some discussion between counsel,
the court adjourned until this morning.
OLD CURIOSITY SIIOF.
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the house was $3;
see him * from that
til I saw
un
lie
but
REVOLUTIONARY RELICS—OLD TIME ME
MENTOES.
Not Dickens', but a Wilmington curiosity
shop—minus Little Nell and Fagin. Apro
pos of the circus the Herald man took his
leave of the busy world and the fleeting
show, nnd with pen aud scrip moved , into
King street and down to that spot where the
odd end of the world is gathered. It is a
gunsmith's shop, and the keeper is a fine
old gentleman, with a particular love for
relics and mementoes, in fact, almost equal
ing in this respect those old friars, who
used to bring back from the Holy Land
pieces of the toe-nails of our Savionr, chips
from the cross, frozen tears from the Vir
gin's eye«, aud other like valuable and de
lectable stuff. This old gentleman, being a
vender of fire-locks, has, of course, made a
speciality of military curiosities—indeed, if
our reporter is not mistaken, there was the
very club of Hercules and yEgia of Mi
nerva.
"Uncle," said the Herald man, respect
fully, "owing to the centennial malaria,
with which I am afflicted, you would oblige
me by pointing out whatever rjvoluticnary
weapons you may possess."
"Vid pleasure, mine dear zir, vid plea
sure," hurtled like courteous grape shot and
polite eannlster from the lips of tlie martial
artist, "here nowiz 'e same musket vid vich
ze battle of ze Brandeevine was opened.
Gineral Pulaski had ze same in bis hands
and it lz said zat ze great Washington has
looked at it."
Thereupon, after examing several others
of the kind, the old carbines, huge blunder
busses, rifles, etc., were displayed—one of
which the. redoubtable Natty Bumpo must
have shouldered whilst he stalked across
the regions of the Susquehanna with the
brave and wily but terribly-named Chlnga
chgook stepping lightly at his side.
" Hello, here, Captain Relico, what hast ■
here; pistol-bags, eh ?"
" Yas, zar; ze pistol-cases of ze olden
age.."
" Revolutionary," said I.
"I zink zay were, 1 .' replied he, producing
the blunderbusses that rightly belonged to
them.
" Ze Hood," he kept on
them."
" Good heavens, man," said the Herald
chief, forgetting Ills wonted dignity, and
even demeanor, " You don't mean to say,
that Robin Hood—ye Merrie Robin of Sher
wood—used that leather hag, do you ?"
" Oh I no ; ze Robin Hood had no pistole,
this was a highwayman of New Jersey be
fore ze first war." " Oh, yes," recovering
from my perturbation aud going into the
corner to examine a bald eagle stuffed.
" Emblematic of ze nation," he explained.
Then there was a stuffed monkey, which,
being a cosmopolitan and a Dr. Coan kind
of a man, I explained was also emblematic
of " ze country."
The next curiosity to fall under tlie eye'
was a very large head of a stag that was
once upon a time " in this neigh- -
borhood. It has a fine mounting of antlers.
Near it is a whip, the handle of which is the
foot of a doe, whieh used to bound, accord
ing to the story, over the hills of the- Sus
quehanna and upper Delaware. A wild
cat stuffed, a white stork, a swan, a toad
fish, and numberless other curiosities are
stowed around the various cuddy
holes and shelves of the courte
ous old fellow's apartments. A very
bid, brccch-loading rifle is ono among
the valuable things that were shown. It is
rusty, with a worn breech and long, Daniel
Boom* or Davy Crackett, barrel, and is
really the strongest reminder of the days
when our fathers hunted and fought by
turns—when one of our creeks was called
Murderkill, and one of our inlets Indian
River.
"By the way," 6aid I; "would you part
with that revolutionary saddle-bag ? I wish
it for next Fourth of July, when the Wil
mington Brigade march through the streets
of Philadelphia."
"Vould like to please ze, but I never sells
! em. I shall have them buried vid me in my
grave like ze Indian, King Phillip." So look
ing over his shoulder at the grinning teeth
of a whang-doodle over his head, the Herald
man marched bravely between the rows of
guns and bayonets, bowing his exit with
precise discretion.
ii
ze Ilood had
killed
RELIGIOV8.
Rev. F. B. Duval, Pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, Market Street abovo
9th. Service in the morning at 10)^ o'clock,
Subject—"God must lead us." Also V/i
o'clock In the evening. Subject—"The good
of Christian Sociability." All are cordially
invited to attend. Evening discourse spe'Ci
ally unfolding the power of association to
tbe young.
i.