The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 8, 1887, Page 2

set DEATH-BED CONFESSION, comes | Wretched Story of Crime Wrunz from | Dying Lips by Accusing Conscience Fratricide With Money For a Motive. — Louisville, Ky., May 27 -Wallace Christian, » well known character of Fisherville, Clark county. Ind... died on Tuesday, after a lingering illness, The deceased was of consumption. at one time a wealthy farmer, but drink caused his ruin and he died a pauper. When he found he was dy ing he made a strange and horrible confession to Dr. McFadden, who at éended him. The death struggle was) | upon knew that he soon must Call- itg the doctor to his bedside, he «aid he had a dying statement to make, and upon the doctor solemnly Promising not to make the confession known until after his death, he be- gan his story. His statement was if substance as follows: Fifteen years ayo, Christian and Kis brother Isaac came to Fisherville, from Harrisburg; Pa., and settled on a small farm, which they worked jointly. Fortune smiled upon them, their crops were always abundant, and they soon became comparatively wealthy. Wallace was the older, and i$ was not long until he began to wish his brother out of the way in order that he might possess the shoney alone. him and he die Fate seemed to favor the latter. It was not Jong until faane announced his intention of | welling his share in the farm and pur chasing an orange grove in Florida. Wallace agreed to buy his brother's share. That night as the two sat discussing their plans for the future before a blazing tire Wallace sudden ly arose and struck his brother a murderous blow His skull was horribly erushed and death with a mallet Was instantaneous Tho unnatural brother coolly re moved the hearth mik ing an excavation placed the body in it. With the that had characterized all his stones and same heartlessness move fents in the tragedy, he replaced the stones and washed away the blood stains. He then retired and Mept peacefully, regardless of the fact that he had that night stained bis hands with his brother's life hlood. The next morning he gave out that his brother left for Florida, and no further inquiry was made by his neighbors. Fromthat day, how ever, his luck was changed, every venture failed and his bank account dwindled away. Then he took to dink, and finally the farm was sold. He squandered his money and dissi pated until his health was gone. and ke found himself a pensioner on the bounty of his friends. At last, with the fatal disease upon him, he built him self a cabin in the woods in which o spend his remaining days. After he died his neighbors placed the re mains in a rude box and dug a shal- low grave the creek. The doctor then made publie the confes sion and the entire penniless and beside party started to the farmhouse to ascertain the truth of the story. The hearthstones were removed, and beneath them was the skeleton of a man. Most of the clothing had rotted away, but a por- tion of the shirt and the soles of the shoes remained. The skull was found to be frightfully fractured. After discussing the horrible affair for atime, the villagers buried the hones beside those of his brother. His First Views of Dixey. Pittsburg Dispatch. “Hello, Harry; still in the hosiery linet” was the breezy greeting given a strawberry blonde young man by a fellow drummer yesterday afternoon. “Yes; just got back from my first trip through the South,” replied the young fellow with the Syracuse hair. “Never been down futher’n Wheel- ing myself, How do you like it?” “First rate, after a fellow gets on once; but it’s mighty hard for a Sun- day-school man to sell goods to those people. Every man with whiskers is a General or a Major, or a Colonel, an’ if you forget to call ‘em by their Gtles you sell no goods, that’s all. I lost a good order in Nashville, just by a joke. I said to a man: “Did all the common soldiers go West after the war?” - “No,” said he. “Why?” “Why,” said I, “I've been through and at work as well as his hands —Rural World. we four States and I never yet found a man who'd been a private. He a Major himself, and that settled me. “How about the girls?” “They're dandies; but get close to was ‘em an’ most of them are freckled— don't compare with Northern girls for beauty. But there is one thing Iean give you a pointer on. That is, don't try to flirtwith’em. I tried it. It was in Chattanooga. I lifted my hat to a pretty little girl across the street, and she smiled at me. A fellow stepped out of a drug store and put his hand on my arm. “Do you know that young lady?” said he. “No, aid I; “but Pd like to.” “Well.” said he, “that lady is a} friend of mine, and if I tind you noticing her again I'll shoot the top of your blank red head right off.” ; “That girl had no subsequent in terest for me. They are a little too free and easy with their tempers down that way to suit me, anyway. I was standing on a street corner one morning when the Mayor, who was a Major also, walked out of a doorway and hit another prominent citizen— a General, too—with a base ball bat. It seems the General had been criti cising the city administration. “Great people for hospitality down there. Always ask a stranger to join them in whatever is goin on. Even a preacher whom I met on the train near Memphis wanted me to join his | White Cross Society.” An Oregon Romance. Sicramente Bee. A breezy story has come Bee from the Webtoot Stat been told to a reporter as foll to the For some years past a young son of Dr named Beach. a Beach, r “ns of one of the most influential citi Lakeview. Oregon. and one of the proprietors of the Lake County Ex auniner, has been the ‘steady compa ny” with a beautiful young lady Her About # year and Wallace came to resides in Warner Valley Minnie a Mr San hame is a half sine: Francisco, and has since kept books tor J. Frankel « Co., Miss Minnie being often in Lakeview. an Lakeview from merchants of Lakeview intima Wallac Last Wednesday evening, about 10 y Sprang up between her and to the discomtiture of Beach. o'clock, Beach went to the County Clerk's for his marriage with the young lady. office and took out a license arted on a ner Val- At 2 o'clock Thursday morning He then hired a rig and forty tive mile drive for W ley. Wallace's friends informed him of what unmediately procured a started for W Valley Fri morning, taking along Rev. Mr. Ad a Methodist minister, and Mr. Willets, a clerk in the store of Sny- der & Lov A Baptist minis- ter soon followed in behalf of Beach. some of had occurred and he lieense and rner ay ans, ove. Some of the town people hire: old Indian and started him out a few hours after W a bogus mar ets. with ense for Willets. ACE so as to have them well equipped in that particular. It is said that the lady has attempted within a month to break off her engagement with Wallace and returned 300 worth of presents to him, but that she st ll wears a diamond ring which was presented to her by him. Her mother, Mrs. Jones, favors Beach and has used every means possible to induce her to marry him. Her step- father favors Wallace and will do all in his power to assist in behalf of the latter. Willets went along as a “heavy man” to see Wallace through, and when the two ministers and all the others meet there will no doubt be a lively time. News of war is hourly expected in Lakeview. Pools are selling $20 to $10 on Beach. Wallace is second choice. some Leaving the things which are be- hind and the past to bury its own dead it behooves the farmer of to-day to press toward the mark for the prize of his high calling; to get out of old ruts and practices, and. as he has laid aside the sickle and the flail and adopted the reaper and the thesher so also shall he fall intoline with other and equally important new methods by varying and alternating his crops saving his manure. fertilizing his land by the use of green crops, as clover. ete., attending meeting business questions, keeping his eyes and ears open and his mind active discussing | Timely use of Dr. Pierce’s ““Favor- irregularities, weaknesses, and kind- | red affections easily, pleasantly and | | BLAINE'S JOURNEY. | wr. Blaine Gives an Outline of Hi- Movements for the Next Year. ————— New York, May to-morrow an elaborate ac- 31.—The world | will pr jcount Of a visit | spondent to Mr made by a 3laine, at his home corre- in Augusta, Me.. and afterwards at his cott at Bar Harbor, in the | course of which Mr. Blaine gave ful ly his plans for his forthcoming trip. discussed the false reports of his | failing health, and referred at length | to the work he has bestowed upon inished. He says extend |the books just fi Lis visit abroad will over more than a year, and doubtless be- yond the line of the me eting of the national Mr. “I am going abroad, next convention. | Blaine said: and expect to be away about a year. Mrs. Blaine and my two daughters, Margaret and Katie, will make up I have engaged state North German Loyd which sails June & I intended to go the party. rooms on the ship Ems, Wednesday next. a little earlier on the Fort Union, of the Cunard line, but their ships are very much crowded and IT couwid not get the accommodations I wanted. We intend to spend considerable time traveling through Great Britain. After England, we will probably go to Scotland and Ireland. Then J] think we shall spend a time in Ger- 1d after that take in F: jimany, a me it will probably be get- >in the ve: will be comfor sInaKe at hat Spzin We both | portions ol uy, a adjoining year is sufficient t correspondent aske about the report. Mr. Bl ing Mr. Gladstone Home Rule party “That story is purely T never had such an idea in No indeed; T shall do nothing of the kind.” hhagyination. my mind. A Good Word for Jett. Philadelphia News. Since the fall of the Southern Con- federacy its chieftain, Jefferson Davis. Davis. has made many speeches, all showing and a belief was not wholly an irreconcilable that “the lost ec: lost. tone Yesterday Mr. Davis took a new track, showing that at lest he, too, has trimmed his sails to the favoring breezes which are wafting the Ame - ican ship of State on to power and glory. “United you are now. and if the Union is ever to be broken. be let it done by the other side.” he 5. It that of Jefferson is; but if he said them, they atone is almost impossible to heey are the words these that he has said and done They present him ina ate and unrepentant. heliev er in the doctrines of ‘the new South.” These words of Mr. Davis mark an epoch in American history. If he, the inspirer and leader of rebellion. say “let the other side break the Union.” then is rebellion’s last throe ended, and it is time to bury the bloody shirt forever. The strength of mind, the mental courage required to enable Jefferson Davis to say to his people, “the truth we fought for shall not encourage you ever to fight again,” demands cordial recognition. For the first time in nearly thirty years the North can well afford to put aside resentment and to join the South in praise of Jefferson Davis. ‘‘Hope on, hope ever.’’ How many delicate ladies there are who, while they attend to their daily du- ties,do se with aching heads, a sense of fullness, pain in the hack and depressed spirits, who are ‘‘on- ly keeping about,’’ as the phrase is. Some day they ‘go into a decline,’ | and leave their children motherless. | To such we would say, ‘Cheer up.’’ ite Prescription”’ cerrects all temale quickly.’ ‘ DEALER IN ALL KINDS Ot ROUGH & DRESSED PING) LUMBER LA'TH, SHING LHS, Posts: g i it, Flaster, Cem HAIR, ash, Doors and Blinds, AN EXTRA QUALITY OF MIXED PAINTS. 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