Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1873, Page 2

WIFE MURDER. Strong Probability that Chicago Will Ilave an Executlon, George Drivor Conoludes to Take His Ohanges in Cook County. His Triel for the Murder of His Divorced Wife. The Testimony Short, Sharp, and Evi- dently Conclusive. Arguments of Counsel to Be Heard ¥ To-Day. Tho case of Goorgo Driver, chargod with the murdor of Aun Driver, his divorced wifo, came ap for trial in the Criminal Court yostordsy morning, Judgo Gary presiding. A motfon for » chiange of vonuo had boon mado at the January term, but it was subsequontly withdrawn, . It is not unlikely that the doath sentoncos so prompt- ly moted out to Rafferty at Waukegan, and Porteot nt Joliet, had somowhat to do with the prinoner'a changoof mind with referoncs to being triod - in Obicego. Country jurics have come to bo regarded as dangorous for murderers to deal with, - THE PARTICULARS OT TIE MURDER of Ann Driver aro g0 fresh in the minds of our renders, that only a brief recapitulntion will bo necoseary, Homo timo provious to tho shooting, Mus, Driver, an intelligout, comely, industrious womnn of about 32 yours of age, had sought and obtzinedadivores from herhusband on theground of drunkonness and repeated cruolty. Il had ften beaten ler, and shoe waa compolled to sbok refuge in separation, 'Tho Court decroed to lior tho ownorship of the house in which she tived with ler family of four children, whoso eustody sho waa also allowed to retain, Hor drunken and idle ox-husband frequontly impor- tuned her for moncy, and sho na often refused bim, for the reason that thoso of Ler own sav- ings and thoso of her oldest son wero barcly suf- ficient to support the family. On Friday morn- ing, Nov. 80, 1673, Driver came Lo tho housoand demanded maney, and, on belng tofused, grow violently enraged, sud at last, in the presenco of threo of hiu children, produced a small pistol ond fired. o stood but six foot from the poor woman, in whose sldo tho ball entered, passing through ber liver, and lodging near the spinal volumn, Sho lived threo days in great agony, aud by Lior doath anothor brutal murdor was con- eummaled, THE JURY, wny empanellod yestorduy morning with compar- elively littlo difilculty, aud when completo stood as follows: W, A, Clay, E. Deninan, Henry Good- men, . Nollis, Geo. Giclion, M. Blum, W. Bishop, J. T. Garrison, T, T Bradloy, M. Hawks, J. 0. Slott, and C. Thurber, . The case for the People was conducted by tate’s Attornoy Reed, and John Mason, Eaq., sppeared for tho prisoner. IR, REED'S OPLNING. In his opening romarks the Biate's Attorney waid that tho'trial ought to be a short one, and a verdict ought to bo reached beforo cvening, Ho ehould undertako to prove that the prisoner was in tho habit of beatiog Lis wifo, and sho ‘waz compelled io reparate from him, = 8he was the mother of sovera pretty children, depondont upon her for stp- port, Bofore thoy were divorced the husband used to bent Lier becauso of hor refusal te givo him her hard-earned wagos. Tho particulars of tho murdor were recapitulated as above. THE FIRST WITNESS eworn for the prosecution was Dr. John McCar- thy, ex-County Physiclan, who testified to hav- Ing mado a post-morlem oxamination of tho body of Ann Driver on the 3d of last Docember, and found thata ball had passed Letwoon tho ninth-and tonth ribs on tho right side, passing through the liver, and lodging in the back near vito spinal column. The bullet was small, and wo shot from a singlo-barrolled pistol. Hor death was the rosult of that wound. CORONER STEPHENS tostiiled to having held the inquest, at which the defendant was presont, and the pislol was pro- ducod and identitied. BERGEANT JOHNSON teatified thas tho dofondant was brought into tha police-ptation on the afternoon of the 29th of November laat, when, in reply to a question to0 that offect, Driver snid he shot his wifo be- caueo phe_rofused to give Lim money. Found the pistol in his pooket, Cross-ceamined: Was not in the habit of * pumping” prisoners. Driver was considorably under the influcnoo of liquor, nnd there was blood on his faco, He did not rcsist when tho pistol was taken from him, Ilis lips scomed to bo swollon. Re-direcl = straight. Ho was not too drunk to talk OFFICER JOUN BELDE tentifled that he arresied Driver; hoard of tho shooting at nbout 10 o'clock ; was sout to look it up ; found Driver at tho houso, and took him under arrost. Asked him why he shot his wilo, and ho roplicd, * That is my busincss."” Cross-examin Ho was a littlo drunk, but not much, Thero was somo blood on hig mous- tache, cnd his lips were s littlo swollen. Ho did oot soy that any of his teeth were Lnocked out ; did not notice that any wore knocked out, GEORGL DRIVER, * u biandsome, Intelligent-looking oy of 11 years, teatitied that tho prisoner was his father. Mr, Mason here roquested the Court to exam- 1na the boy ns to his kum\'hfl{;o of the uature of en oath, as he underatood that the boy, at tho mqluuub, did not seem to lmow tho natitre of an oath, Being oxaminod on this Polnt, the lad sald that ho know the moaning of an oatl; had heard his brothor say that it meant to toll tho truth, and he would go to hellif Lo did not toll the ik, Xnew this before the inguest; noono bus oxglnlncr] it sinco. Mr. Mason raised tho point as to the compe- tonoy of the witness. The Court—I think be iy & competent witness, A roceay was hero tnken until 4'g'clock, On the renssembling of the Court, Oficor Boabe.wag recalled, and identified somo cart- ridges s Loing the samo found by him in the prisoner’s poclkot, Munter Goorgo Drivor then resumed hio osti- mony : His mother was dead ; did not know the duteof tho shooting, but it was on Lha day bis fathir was arrestod. On that day Lis motbor snd fathor wont -iuto the Lodroom, and, after staying thera awhilo, thoy camo out., Mothor wont and stood back of tho stove, Father askod ber for koo monoy; sho rofused, and ihon ho shot her, ITo pulled outa J‘M“" and mothor, thinking it was & knife, cried, * Don't stab mal” Then ho shot hor. Q.—Did you ever ses your fathor abuse your mother ? Mr. Mason objected, on the ground that the question was too gemoral. Tho objection was sustained. Q.—Howlong had your mothor lived there ? A.—A lon, Q.—thn did you seo your father hurt your mother 7 A.—About a month hoforo, Mr, Magon objectod on the ground of romote- nees, and the testimony was ruled out. Cross-examined : 'I'io Liouso belonged to fath- er and mother, Don’t know that ho always geve bor all tho monoy that ko esrned. o was not very drunk on the morning of the nhnounf. At tho timo of tho shooting, witness and his alstors, Eello and Katie, agod respectively 9aud 7 {ynnre, svora at homo ; witness was on the louoge in the kitchen. Did not hear mother ssy to futher: (et out of that ;" did not hear hor strilte him iz the bodroom, and aaw no blood onbhis faco when ho came out, Buw him shoot her, but did ot geo her strike himn bim e m‘rer, nor nuythng olse. ‘I'hoy wero talk- about money. m?;.—(uy Mr. n’lnnun) Did you fathor glve your wother manuyito buy s turkey the night before hankaglvin, 7 Mr. ]lb;ed Lfi:}ectud, and the objection was sus- tained. Witness resumed : Wasnevorsworn in & court peforo, Haw bim shoot her (desoribing the mpnuer of it aulte vivids), Haw o blood on |, and did uot hoar hor call* hie faca when ho nnn{u‘nlle of tho bedroom 3 AW blood on his face at ndon, nfter -the shboting. Henrd no high words botweon thom whed {n the bedroom. . : S Tovaly littlo glrl § génra. OF o, toatifid th » lovel yonra of age, to: 2l would bo 0 next Good Fridag.” o hod thab “T'ho Court—You know, Mr, Mason; botter than I %:h\vhen lknt ls.m nesa—An _onth monus to tell the truth; honvd brother Willlo sny 60, and (£ sl told a lia sho would go to lioll and al=o to jnil. Tho Qourt deolded hor to be & competent it~ noss, s Tho littlo girl added that she recognized hor fathor; hor mothor was doad ; sho wag shot Ly father aftor that ho 1an away. Cross-cxamined : 1 wos standing in tho bed- room door; was in my. niqhb- owny fathor was not vory drunk, only a littlo, o ocamo into tho houno abont 8 o'clock, and wont into tho bed- room; mothier followed him, and wanted him to o ont, Did not hear hor nay nnything bad to him, nor sgold him. Whon ho ahot her sho was standing about eix feet from him, MATY DIIVER, an lntnlllganl-lnnlxln girl of 18, tostifled that defondant was lior fathor; mothor was shot the day attor Thanksgiving, and died throe days af- torward, They had some words in tho morning, Thoy had beon divorcod, and mothoer owned tho hougs. Ho boarded thoro somo of tho timo af- tor thoy wero divorced. Tha night bofore the shootiug ho kickod hor with his foot. Mr. Mason asked that this lattor statement bo stricken out. Mr. Roed sald lo proposed to follow it up by proving that ho threatonad to kil hor. With this underatanding, the Court ruled that tho teatimony was admiaiablo. Cross-examined: Wo wore all living in the house togothor, and-all had dinner togather on ‘Thanksgiving Day ; fathor was not working at thotime. Ie did mot work overy day that ho could (iol work; did not_always gvu his wages to mothor, shooting ; at any rate, not much, Tathorhad Doon In tho bed-room about ton minntos whon mothor wont in. Saw hor striko him with hor opon hand on the nose. Don't know what sho suid -to him, oxcepting to toll him to got up. Did not aco tho shooting, but osrd the noise, MBS, TATE PETENS, - n sistor of docoasod,- tostiflod: that sho heard Driver threaten to shoot his wifo in 1800 ; elso hoard him throaton hor luat June, 1o camo to witness’ housn, talked about goiting o divorco, and said ho would shoot hor. "Ho asked wilngss for somo monoy, and she asked him why he did not go to worlk, - Mr, Magon objécted to this testimony, but the Court docided it to bo ndmissiblo. Cross-cxamined: Tho threats were mads in tho forenoon; ho was drunk, but had no weapon. JOUN BTARK tostiflod that he wog o noar neighbor of Driver and hig wifo, Has heard him threaton, and has soou him kick hor. ' Objoction was made by Mr, Meson, and tho objoction was overruled. itneas—8nw-Driver kick his wifo down sovon or oight stops. Oross-cxamined : Have been good frionds with defondant, until be got to drinking eo hard; Ho nover worked to amount to auything. MRS, MARGARGT WTARK, . ° wifo of tho preceding witnens, testified that Drivor was tight most all tho time ; enw bim Idclt hin wifo many times, and drag hor ont of the house. Thin was last Juno. Onco heard Mrs, Drivor “ holler” ng if gho was bninfi killed. Onco saw him choke her, Ho had her down on tho floor, domanding monoy of her,. which sho rofusod, snying that it wan hor little boy's earn- inga, - o then tried to gt into Lor pocket. Saw him strike her n the face. Cross-cxamined: ~Ho was drunk when Lo struck her; never anw hor strike him, MRY. WARY RATEENTY, also n near noighbor, testifiod that she lived in tho houto with the Drivers at the timo of tho shooting. 'The night bofore, Loard her ordor him out of tho houso. oard hor say: “You say you will shoot me, but I dare you to do it." A{ anothor timo ho throw her on the floor snd -| pulled Ler balr, Cross-cxamined : After the divorco ho did not” live at the houso unti] within n fow days of tho shooting. When ho was pulling ‘hor “hair he wanted ton cents of her. “Ho was in the Brido- wall at one time,. To Mr. foed. I pald tho ront tohor aftor the divorco, 3 Mr. Reed horo offered in ovidence a certified copy of the decree of divorce. o Mr. Mason objectod. Tho Court—It can male littlo d{fforence cithor way. - Mr. Roed—I am not particular about it, This is tho case for the People. FOR THE DEFENCE, Mzrs, Rafforty was racalled, and tostiflod that, with tho exception of Thanksglving night, sho had heard no quarrelling for two months before tho shooting. ~Wns shown by Mrs. Driver s tur- Koy which tho defendant had bought. * TESTIMONY. AB TO OHARACTER. The remaining testimony for tho defenco was wholly in proof of the roputation of defendant a1 a ponceable nnd quiot man, All teatified that o was such, but sovoral stated that thoy had heard of hia abusing his wifo. The witucsaes wore Mosars, Fitzpairick, Monlton, John Kee- au, Join Lobatoin, Thomas Giddonn, Joln §taddon, Martin Gilnioro. - WILLIAX DRIVER, n§od about 14 yonrn, testified as to the death of his mother, Aun Driver, who died threo duys after Thankegiving: Was not presont. Identl- fies tho emall, single-barrol pistol ag oue ho gave his fathor on Tuesday of tho samo week. Don’t recollect whether tho mothor and sistnra wero thoro whon Lo gavoe tho pistol to his father. Q.—What wero the civcumstances under which you gave tho pistol to your fathor ? Mr. Reod objocted. The Court eald it might be rdmissible in rebut- tal of tho testimony going to show a deliborate proparation to kill, % E g ‘Witness—Io snid he had better take the pistol to protect himself azainst thiovos, as o worl x.n&’ Leen robbed of 'his wages a fow nights bo- fore. 1 told'him thnt Lhad tried tho pistol sev- eral times, but wouldn't go off. I had® bought tho pistol of o boy sbout o month bofore, and had hought tho eartridges abastoro. Father was not_very drunk on tho morning of the shooting. Hohad drank a little but was not very drunk. I wasnot in thohouse ot tho timo of the ehooting. 5 Cross-examined : 1 did not give him the cart- ridges at the time I gave him the pistol, Ilo told me ho got them out of my box down in the cellar, : i JOUN 0'CONNELL, - & workman in McCormick's roaper factory, tes- tified that Driver worked thers ?unt Lofore tho shooting. Ho was asked whether a rumored robbery was discuesod atnong tho men at work thoro. ” Ho ropliod tiat thoro was such & rumor oro. Cross-examined :- Don't know the namo of tho man who was rumorad to have beon robbed. Tho eago for tho defonco was rosted hero, and the Court ndjourned until 10 o'olock this morn- ing, tho jury baving been instructed to read no {llf\mmparn and have no discussion relative to @ ¢aso. —— SUBURBAN NEWS, RAVESSWOOD. "This beautiful eubub of Chicago iy now build- ing a school-house, which will cost, when com- ploted, ©15,000. 'This town was started by Hodgor & Van Allen, in the apring of 1809, and now souds to Ohicago, dally, fifly commulera. The Congrogationists have just comploted & fine chuich edifice, and gorvicos aro hold oach Bab- Lath., Without doubt, thero is no finer location for & town on the Milwaukee Divislon of tho Ohi- cago & Northwostern Rallrond, and, had it not Leen for the removal of tho goneral ofiices of tho Michigan Southern Railrond to Cleveland, taking with thom oue hunared clorks asod omployes, who lhad invested in Ttavonswood “with tho iutentlon of building, but now aro holding their lots for epeculution, ihe town woull havo a population of ene thou- sand, ’I‘h? villago ia s;omg to roorganize under the new Blate Inw, which will groatly facilitato improvements, an_at presont being "councoted with the Town of Lako Viaw, which s very con- gorvative, it ia unable to effcct mauy dosived improvements, Xand solls now in the most de- sirablo locations for 25 por foot. NLUE IELAND, Tho following will givo the parliculars of an old folks’ concort to be given at Blue Islund, the oldest town in Illinols, this avening s Mufick of yo Oldon Time.—Authoms, Fuguos, snd other Holte-Tleces of yo Olden Times, togethor with Many Worldlie Bonges, will be Vieyed und Bunga by ye Feopla of yo Blue Ifiaud Literarle and L\Enrlu Affovistion, ~¥ather Avakiah fs llead Binger, pinco of ye Mufick is ot ye Large Hall, wh is in Bluo fland Villago, Ja 1lto day of Fobruarie, in ye yera 16870, Yo Houndlug of yo Mufick will begiu af Parlis Candls Xighte, Tuis Farchmena will certiflo to yo Doore Kcaper that you kave payed Fiftia Cents, and wre outitled to yo in'ye Hull sud hearo yo Mufick, MGHWOOD, V. B. Denslow, Baq., of this city, will road & apor on the uuLjnul 'of “Tuduntrlal Commun- sm,” before the Mighwood Library Olub, this evenliig. SOUTH EVANSTON s to elect town ofiicers on Tuosday, the 18ih Inst, The caucus will be held on the preceding Baturday. o was not drunk at tho timo of tho | ‘Western Iowa. Yo | PHE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1873, -_—_ IOWA. o i Vealue of Railroad I’rdperti in Towa-~-The Tax It Pays. Rellef from Railroads Again Defeated in the Legisiaturo, The Seventy-Thousand = Farmers' Léngue~-The Plow to the Fore, Capital Punishment--The Rankin COase--The Lato Mr, Harlan, Speetal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Des Motwes, Towa, Teb, 5, 1870, TAILTOAD PIOPERTY AND TAXES. Last wintor, tho Leglslaturo of this Blato pro- vided for tho taxation of railway property, tho asdossmont to bo made by the Biate Consus Board, which fs composed of thoe Govornor, Boc- rotary, Auditor, and Treasurer of BStato. Tho DBoard made the nssessmont on an avorngo of £6,800 por milo,~somo roads boing nsscesod twico that much, and some not half ss much,— tho total aggrogating $18,869,061. On this ns- sessment the difforont Boards of Buporvisora lovied tho taxes, Of the monoy dorived from ‘this taxation, tho difforont conntios through ‘which tho railronds pasa recoivo their equitablo share with the Btate. Under the old law, thero ‘was collocted from all railronds {n the State, for tho two yonra 1860-'70, but $201,877.16 ; in 1871, but $171,162.98, Undor tho now law, the total smount of tax for 1873 tlono {8 €515,050.50. This may bo nccoptod as ono practieal triumph of tho poople over railroads, and & profitablo ono a8 well. TAILROAD LEGIBLATION, Thus far in tho adjourned session, the Legls- Inturo lias fatled to {alke squarcly hold of tho railrond quostion. It lma beon up in both ‘Dranches, and is now on the carpet in both of thom ngain. Two wooksago, thoSonate thought it Lad dioposed of it for this session, by xespeot- {fully roferring tho matter to Congross, esking thet body to take care of it at once, and thus re- lievo tho pooplo without dolay, Butit was not thus to bo moved aside. Tho Btate Grange of tho Tatrous of Husbandry met hore last ook, rosurrected the quostion, and gave it new life. Its offect upon tho Logislaturo was not so much the rosnlt of its memorials aud its demands as ofticially ‘snd formally prosented. It was'tho personal contact of the farmors with tho logislators. Tho most of the ook, there wers botweon 1,200 nnd 1,400 farmors horo, ropresenting nemly overy county and towuship in tho State. Theso mon of the plow swarmed iuto the Capitol, and talked to tho miembers of their own political timos to come; aud this brought many of them to oo that they, a8 well a8 tho farmors, woro' poreonally inter- eated. DPorhnps- this onslaught of tho agricnl- turista would bave sccomplishod its porfect work but for two things: It wns ovordono,— there was too much of threat, and too little of ar< gumont ; and too many of tha Grangors pub- licly boasted that they wera coming to the next Logislature, and that the Grango would control two-thirds or throo-fourths of its votes, 'This greaetly neutralized, if it did not sltogether de- 8trqy, tho offect which tho doscent of the Gran- Btill, while have been fll, 1 trio that tho farme ors did nccomplish somo good in this direction. Thoy mado the question live again by giving it good shaking up, Yosterday tho poople rad-flaggod the locomnotive ngain, the fight commencing this timo in tho Scunte. And to- duy, aftor a short and -sharp fight, tho railronda again came off victorious,—the vote on tho tariff $ito liavo hnd uon tho mombors, the_offect, to this oxtent, mas it is unquestionabl . scction, offered in smendment to the chaptor concerning railroads, being o tie voto,—28 to 28. ‘Tho section n8 drawn was unfortunato and awk- ward, It would hnve applied woll enough to 60 miles of .rond out from the Missiseippi Rivor, but inoguitably to tho wholo of Contraland Bolng partial in its applicn- tion, of courso it failod, ns, In this form, it should bove done, Tho misfortuno is, in the Senate, that tho mon who assume to bo tho lendors against the railroads are, the most of them, both indiscreot nnd ouilfl out-genoralled, Especially is this true of the one particular Senator vho assumes to speak for *‘the agricultural mind of the Btato.” Ho moans well -enough, but he don’t know how., There aro good men and able oncs in tho Senato on tho poople's side of tho coniro- vorsy, and, were thoy nt tho lead of it, their cauro would win. But, as it is, tho men who rush np to the leadership, and, b{ raca of noise, rotain it, are doad-woights, of which the opposi- tion take good and fatnl ndvantago. Sonator McNutt makes o (i(wt] fight, and, a8 ho i ono of tho acknowledged leadora on tho anti-railrond side of tho Houso, it ia proper his namo should not be confounded with those of tho poraons bofore spoken of, The strong men with MoNutt aro Dague, Sliano, and Dysart. It in yot possible that tho prosent session mng talto hold of the railronds, and regulnto bot! {hele fralghtand passongor schodulos, provided s Dill, wise In its provisions, and just in its appli- cation to nll parts of the Btate, shall be intro~ ducod, T'ho hest slign that this is possiblo g, that the railrond meu, after a thorough canvass, aro decidedly unensy, 'and aa decidodly active. An analysis of tho professions ‘of the men voting Lo roler tho ruiirond question to Con- gross rovoals tho unoxpected fach that the farm- or membore of the Senato wore mostly in favor of &0 roferring; which docs not provo the popit- lar cry that, the profespions and the merchauts aro banding togothoer against tho producer, A statomont of this foct, nothe Benato voto por- trayed it, is of sufliciont interest for publicn~ tion, Bolgiveit. Intho list of tho Sonators voting in favor of State_control of railronds, Boardeloy is an oditor, Boomer a physician, Campbell an oxz-cditor and now a merchant, Chuwbers o morchaut, Conversa n lawyer, Daguo an editor, Daghioll n physiciun, Gauli o farmior, Kephart o preachor, Maxwell na merchant, MeCormack — an editor, =~ McCullough = & fermor, McNuit o farmer, Humplo o lowyer,” Bhano s lowyor, and West & farmor, Of the Benstors who voted for roference of the quostion to buyers, slx aro Inwyors,—Clausgon, lfurloy, Iinne, McCoid, Russell, and Btono; five are favmors,—Crary, Fiteh, Howland, Lowry, and Wouna; twoaro merchants,—Atking and Lovoll; two are bank- ors,—Molulyra and Smith; two nro editors,~ Havons and Read ; whilo Larrabeo is n morchant miller, Miles o physician, Stuart o millor aud farmor, Taylor o drugglsl, and Young “for ten yoara a county lawyor. This voto—a squere thing on tho record— shows tha tho mnjority of the farmers in the Sonatohave ¢ got aver tho tongue,” as it it said In tho parlance of tho farm, or * are bought up on the wrong sido,” THE GTATE GBANGE, Tae ToimoNe had, by tolt?j:rnph, daily, such full reports of the wvroceedings of (ho Blate Grango of the Patrons of Husbandry, leldin this Btato last wook, that thore is but littlo more to bo said about it. ' IL was o notabla gathering, —s#omeo 1,800 farmors in convontion, ~'I'ho har- pleg end tho vulturea woro thore, too, of courso, —tho r(aproncntnuvon of that class of mon who play and profess farming in order to_got insldo of agrioultural corporations for the sake of plun- dor and proy. ‘Those mon have beon in majori- ty, hithorto, in the maungomnens of the Grango iu this Btato, nnd somo of thom atill hold over but the most of them rotired by request, and the rost of them will follow ausoon as thelr time comen. Tho farmers discovered that they were being run by a ring, and fleccod by it. Much of this evil tha Btalo Grango cured, and tho rost of It will bo chaokmated in'its purposo by thoe local Qranges cutting off tho rupply of mouoy, It is eafo to say that the mmount of monoy pald oyor from subordinate Qranges to tho EI(’uln ofticera will be much less this year s compared with last, Furthermore, it is not improbable that the movemont set on foot for a complote reorganization may bo successful in the prosout epring, aud that would leave all the profcasiona! gentlomon in high places outin the cold, The fact that o man not a farmer, but s ma- ohiniat, wan, elooted Master of the ordor at the Btato Grange, {8 not working well nmang the farmors out in the Btato, Thoy think, and with much )ilmpr!bl‘y. that o farmor's organization whould hiavo o farnior at the head of ther things contributo to the discontent, The Btato Grnnga suthorizes the Exocutive Committes to soleot & Binto Agont, and an agont for ench of 1Lio onat aud wout rallronds Lu tho Bisto, aud also on the Logislature in mnas would other-- fofix tho'?ny of binal lofflcer.’ Tho Committoo meb aftor tho ad{lanrnmlnt of tho Grango; and; elooted all elx 6 the pid-oficors out of their own'numbor,~all thd mombotn of tho Commits’ toe but ono poor follow, who way not, Preannt, gota an appointment, This action will hnrdly plonso the farmora vory mnch. e Of tlio siiccenn or pormanoncy of thls order, prophecy mny not say: - In one'yost it Lind grown from ‘40 Granges’ and 400 “membora to 784 Granges and 73,000 membors, end tho ratio of incronso i8 atill tho same, If,rightly and. wiscly- managed, {t will undoubtodly ncoomplisl . groat good for ita class. If not, ns now throntont to £ thio easo, ita falturo will only bo tho moro stu- ondous by ronson of tho giant sizo to which It flnn nlrondy attained, It will inevitably got into politics, ogpocinlly on the reliroad quesiion; and should it hold togothor tho present yenr, in har- mony and accord, it roquires no gift of prophacy to neo and any that tho noxt Legislature will be o Grango Legislature, E RELIGIOUS RECORD. i So much talk has arison {n rogard to tho relig- ionn of tho loglalators voting for and againet tho abolition of capital punishmont in thisBtato, Iaat wintor, that o statement of tho facts in the caso will bo intoresting, and will reliove our Prosbyterinn frionds of tho charge that all of tho membors of this denomination voted for tho hnaugman, Following is o classification of tho vote, which showa tho orror of thoso who have nfiirmed that ‘“tho law wns prssod by infldels and tho dangorous class of roliglonists, and op- posed exclusivoly by the safo and orthodox de- *nomination: For tho law—Methodlst, 8; Baptlat and Presbyte- rian, 0 ench j Congregationaiist, Orthiodox and Uni- yorsallt, 3 cach ¢ Liboral, 73 Blaule 55 Indopendent, Epiacopalian, Practienl Gbristion, Profestant, Luther an, Ecleetlc, Goldon Rule, Clristian, and Freo Thinkor, 1.daclt, ‘Total, 60, 1, 60, Against the law—Presbytorlon and Lutheran, 3 cich; Methodlst, Liberal, and Blauk, 2 each; Old School Baptist, Univeraalist, Congregationallst, trxmxyannn, Discirlo of Obriat, Cliristinn, Liatter-Day-Ssint, No Pros fession, Nature, 1 cachs, ‘Lotal, 3 DBy this it appears that a mnjorily of “tho sound and tho orthodox ™ voted for tho Quaker law. Tho movoment for tho ropesl of this law, at tho prosont sossion, bins gainod no strength, and -tho ntatuto will undoubtodly stand for nnother yoar, at leant. -’ omn zxosLATURE 18 atill working away on tho Colo. . 'This makes & dull aossion, and offords no fleld-days in do- Late; whoroab tho orators of the body aroin dospitr and aro compollod to lt Ly nad acg tlio roal workera in the houses doing all the busi- noss, and the - talkers, justly euough, gotting none of tho oredit thorofor. " Tho lnbor of com- ploting the Codo i8 being rapidly accomplished, and, shonld no longthy ‘debntes come up ovor thie moro important quostions yob to bo sottled, thero in no reason why the body should not ad- Journ in two wocks. THE BANKIN CASE. The Committeo to investigato tho Rankin de- faleution has not yot submitted ita roport. It was nbout rendy to do so_when tha bond given in 1870 waa discovered. ‘It has been inquirin, into this for soveral dn?'n, and will not. ropor now, perbaps, until it bo dofinitely known what nction ' tho Attorney Gomoral wiil take in rogard to this bond The Govornor, who is_one of the surctics on this bond, han directed tho Attornoy Genoral to suo upon tho bond, and thus nscertaln if 16 con ho held for auy part of tho loks oceasioned by ‘tho defnleation, It is thought by many it can bo roved that $20,000 of the doficlency ocourred n 1870, when this boud was olive, Othors think not, and go it is to bo left for tho Courts to de- tormine. Rankin is in o sad plight,—sick abod ; and woll-nigh distracted ; his attornoy snys, insanoc. But this latter agsortion is uot bolioved. 'Tho fcoling of pity hore, which was very genorally felt for Rankin at first, has changed. In his confoasion, ho asked investigation, and prom- ised to ronder a clean broast of ovorything. Brought to tho test, ho refusos to tell anything, Toally, and tho littlo hio confesaca but provos him unworthy of the sympathy he at first received. HARLAN'S FALL. The doscent of Bonator James IHarlan down into tha limbo of tho £u1mumy dend, in best renlized hore in Town, Long yoars s strong and S popular n man s there was in the Btato, tho entoem of him was goneral and cordisl. Twenty yoars in oftico, and over & kind grovldur of good places for Lis friends, ho had his componasted nupporters in almost overy township aud echool- dintrict in tho State. Of & vority, his strength was mighty, and, after the rotiromont of Qrimes from the Benate, his rulo wan supreme. Aud, oven in later years, aftor ho had hecomo known and famed g8 o jobbor in legialation and tho fast friond of monopolists, and notwithstanding thoe exposure of his conncetion with the Cherokeo pension and corn and contract frauds, thero ‘Woro atill many that belloved in him.’ Ifislond prayers at the conferences of the church whose good nomo he so long nmed for hls porsonal | profit, and tho good character givon him by hapiain Nowmen and tho _chureli papors, mado thousnnds of good peoplo bolievo him o slan- dered man, and o man_porsocuted for hin vory Christionity, But this lattor dovelopment, end the pafnful position in whick Lo now towora be- fore the country, na the saddost and complotest of all tho wrecks mado by tho Credit Mobilier, havo convincod oven the” lnst and the most de- voted of his followers. Bo far, but ono papor in Town—and that an organ established by thae Son- ator and his friends, at this polnt, in bis lnst fight here—has come forward to defend him and his bribe-taking. Bomo half-dozon sook to palliato It ; while, among the papors muost so- veroly denouncing him novr, are soyeral leading Journals oarnestly for him in his fight lnst win- ter. Noither has a singlo man voluntcored to go into print, oven anonymously, to indorae, oreven oxcuso, his shame. Tho dotection and oflmsmu of Pomoroy, who has cver beon Mr. Hurlan’s yokefellow, occa- sionod a great pleasuro here. ‘Their partaorship ‘was 80 woll known, and their two lives haye ro long Leen intertwined as one, that Pomeray's caso had an intenso local interost hore. In the few montha proceding Harlan's lnst_offort at re- olection, Mr. Pomeroy cemo to Des Moines to bo counsollor in the Harlan Congress, then bLolding frequent sessions hero. This was noted lore thon with great suspicion ; his own defeat comos now to confirm tho suspicion of then, Kansas and Towa meot to shake hands over the buried men, in glad token of disonthralument, ITEMS IN PASSING, My roforenco, in n former lettor, to a political company or ring foymed ‘for the purposaof furnishing * insides end ouisides” to country papors, struck somothing. - Iia mauagera aro out nowin an officiul disclaimer, donying alf hints that thoy looked, by this course of skilful indirection, to tho acquirement of moro power for tho perpotuation of tho Harlan dynasty. It waa not expected they would own to this, ~And bosides, sinco thnt lotter waa writton, an ovil murrain has fallon upon Harlan, making it not o po})ulur thing to any longor carry tho Hurlan colors, If the company does moan logitimato Dbusincss, na it now claims, thon good spood toit; but monntime, 28 bankers and_politicians, men not liorotofors in the printing businoss, nre the bona and sinew of it, It will "bo well enough to wait and wateh, The fluttor and flurry which a gosaipy spoculation of ils F\n‘pnse:l and plang occasionad, indicato a touchiness not henlthy, My, Harlan, in his Chronicle at Washington, usoka to deny bia connection with the appolut- mont of his lnat Indian Agent from Towa—Dr. James Wright, for Montann and “the Toton Bioux,"—and vory facotiouely contradicts some of tho statemonts mado ju o Pruviuuu letter of this writer, Ko says he was “ the only member from Iows not sipuing Mr. Wrighf's recom- mendation.” Then Ay, Wright, hivman, mude positive misroprosontations, for hoe told mo Lim- self that Benntor Harlan dia sign his papors, Tut, nt any rato, evon if the Sopator dogs dony that ho gave Wright the bloasing of Lis auto- graph, lio will not dony that ho it was who went With Wilght to tho Prosidont, and at tho vislt pecured his appointmont. Tho other Iowa menm- bors signod Wright's papers, gonorally, undor- standing ho was on applicant for an_inforior po- sition, Taking such papors, Mr, Havlan "used them to socure for his man &n Indian Buporin- tondoucy. 'TRANBIENT, e e e THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. To the Edifor of The Chicago Tribune: Biu: And still tho burden of the Iuler-Ocean gong romnine iho same, Day aftor day, with unparalleled effrontory, that shoot attempta to coerco Gtovernor Bevorldgo into the appointmont of Colonel Morgan, threatening that “ No Board of Uommissioners will bo confirmod by the Sonato which doos uot include tho namoof Calonel Morgan;" and using othor languago to tho eamo offect. 8o that is the Issuo,ds it? Lot tho frionds of tho Colonel, with the Infer-Ocean at tholr hoead, romombor that it ia hey who have ‘made this issue, and who, by their arrogant pro- sumption in forclng his claim upon tho Govor- nor, rendered his nomination a matter of impos- sibility, Daes tho Infer-Ocean roally belleve, in good oarneat, tLat, if (hroo unchbjoctionable names are sont to tho Bonate, thoy will bo rojectod glmply bocaure COolonel Morgan's is not one of them? And that, too, whon tho porsonal nature of the contost Liss bosn o openly avowed? And what intorest, pr:{‘. Colonel Morgan, that they should sustsin him g ngainat the Govornor?” Palaw! Go to, In- has_ tho opposition’in fo ba chilish edough tq keep up a battle Bolely for itho gmmzuugn of .\{-',n?un pplto 7. Ros mux-nbe‘r‘ thiat- you' -hayo Yorced “this. ntate, of thihgs, Tho quostion, sccording to ydur own- showing, {s, whethor_you and Colonel Morman onn bnek down John L, I)avoringn, tho dovornor of Illinols. 'What, in a nutsholl, i3 tho lssue tho Intev-Occan has mado, L Cntcaad, Yob, 10, 1873, FIRE AND. ITS WORK. . Four Persons Buincd~Tiwvo Men ond Two Ohildren. From the Jegéraon {Toca) Dee, Feb, 1. Wo aro callad u}mn to chraniclo the moat hor- rible ocourrondo that eyor saddenad tho hoarts of our commuhity, and ono, overything considered, almost without precadont in tho rocords of firea for itn swaoping and torrible work, On Baturdny morning last, at 4 o'clock, the residenco of MNr. Aloxander Carnes, in Bristo} Township, o dis- tanco of savon miles northiwent of .!"nflurnun, toolk fire from romo unknown cauco- and was on- tiroly consumed, togethor with four of the ocou- pants—Aloxandor and IHonry Carnod and ‘two children of tho lattar, Tho two familles wereliv- ing in tho house for tho timo being—Honry re- contly romoving to this county from Ilinels, A BLIY broozo was blowing from the southonst at tho timo, with tho thormometer indicating about 20 bolow. 'Tho supponition is, that tho woub part of tho houso caught firo firat. It was used 28 1 gonoral slorage-room, and, nob boing occu- pied by any ono, the firo got wudor good hend- way boforo discoverod, At any rato tho wont portion was tho first burned, as tho onst half was still standing aftor gomo of tho neighbors reached tho scone of conilagration. Tho fiiab alarmn was givon by Mra, Aloxandor Camens, who soys tho roof and ceiling over the bedroom which sho and Ter husband occu- led wero literally wrapped ~in flamos, ho puccoeded in saving hor children, and tho ;mon in the "moantime ivent to the res- ono’ of Mrs, Heury Carnes, who was bod- fast from having beon. just confinod.. Bho wns tnken out and pincod in. o sleigh neat at hand. ‘I'hio brothors then wont in aftor the two childron of Honry Carnos, and succeeded in gotting them ae far a4 tho door, only to most resistonce thore, T : pected to oxolude both (filnn and wator, if any of .oltlior giould Lo met with. f - 'A yoint about midway of the rivor having boen reached;-worlt wan susponded “on this side, and oporationa woro commoncad on tho Canadn bldo, Thore the draitagoe tunnol had boou oxtonded about 400 foot whou veius. of quickeauds of-un- known oxtent wero met with, which bhave do- h?-ml {ho work considerably. 'Fhoso velnn woro of a thicknens varylng from n fow inches to Liro feot.” Tho latoral extont of thom is not known, but it fs deomed, probable that thoy can bo denined. . At tho ‘poiot statod work -was eus- anlcd on the drainage_tuunocl, and an oxplora-, {on” drift was commencod ab about tho samo dopth and about parnllel with thodrelnnge tupnel. This ha nowhoon oxtonded over 400 foot, and no ‘obatructions whatover have been mot with. Tho quicksands which gave troublo ‘in the drainnge tunnol have not beon found, ull,lmu‘;h the ox- plorntions hinve already boon made hoyond tho point whero thoy wore moet with bofore, which would tond to shiow that thoy aro not of very ront oxtent. This exploration drift has not cen walled up, and is not oxpoctod to bo of any furthor uso fhan to demonatrate the extent of tho quicksands, ond porbaps, drain them from the tunnel so a8 to allow tha work to procead. But littlo mora than half tho drainngo tunncl hau yot beon buiit, but it is expeoled that it will Lo complelod this summor, if no more eorioun obstructions aro mot with than thoso which iavo Leen already oucountored and overcomo, ‘The engineer still ascorts his fuith in the suc- cers of tha project, Tho building of tho drafi- ago tunucl thus far has consumed moro time, aud hag cost more than was ab first anticipated. But this wae ontiroly an expsrimont, as nothiny ‘whatovor was known of tho nature of the carth to bo penetrated, and hence thore wore no reli- ablo data on which to base an estimato of time ond cost. DBut, aside from tho additional timo oand oxponso inourred, thero has been nothing, to tho mind of the enginaer, of n, dlsconraging uature. It was consideres by him that the consiruction of the drainago tunnol was tho mogt doubtful and diffeult part of tho worlr, sud hencoho was dotermined to build that fivst. . Ho still adhores to_tho opinion oxprosscd by him at the outset, tiiat the main tunnel can ho built within two years from the dato of its commencement. has yat anan io and,auccumbing {0 tho flro and mnako,porinkiod in-| nothing L causu ulm to changoe his mind on that tho flames, 'Tha body of Aloxnnder Usrnos wan found directly in front of the door, while tlint of Ienry was about threo feot to tho north. Tho ohildren were lying by thoir pides, leEnroqu Lunt o8 thoy had fallen. Mr. Henry Do ou% n rothor-in-law _to Alexandor Onrnss, who lind roturned from Illinois a day or Lwo boforo, and stopping at tho house, wo sroinformed,’ sayn ho suceceded in oponing tho door wido onough to fako hold of Alexander Carnes' arm, but could not opon it wido enough to let him escapo, - There avo many conflicting utories as to. tho burning, of ita probablo causes, &o. ‘Thoro is considorablo blamo attached to the con- duct of DoLong, some charging him with crim- inal nezlect, and somo ovon churging him with the double crime of arson and murder, while others support him and-claim that ho did il in his power to save tho victims. Thoro is some- thing very mystorious about the mntter which timo only can unravel. Thoe fact of DoLong bo- ing & dosporato charoter,—who I8 kaown to have throatened vengeanco upon Carncs and others in our community,—is “cortainly unfor- tuuate for bim in conncctionn with this affair, howover innoceut ho may bo. Wo hopa ho can and will setisfy all doubis s to his guilt, and It us in the moantimo warn our cttizous againat’ undue projudice in their minds, inasmuch a8 the law presumes bim innocent nnlil proven the opposite, DoLongs fost and inda woro quitp. badly frozen, and ho is now at Mr. Wil- loughby's, whero The ja under trentment. Mra, Aloxaudor Carnea and ' childron aro” also kindly cared for by tho family of ‘vvflluugihl.li'}.l Mrs, Tonry Carnes and babo wero taken fo the rosl- denco of Willinm Stroams, nearly a milo distent, whilo the mercury stood 25 dogrocs below zero, and it is strango that sho did not take cold, bu she is doing a3 well 08 could bo oxpectod undor tho oxtraordiunry circumsinncos attonding her prosent condition—tho losing of hor husband aud hor two childron in ~ munner ko terrible, Sho way on Thursday removed ta tho residonco of Mr. Jesgo Johnson, whoro she is enred for, . Both of tho Carnou Brothors wore men highly cstoemed by thoir noighbors for theiv integrity 3 citizons, and for being hard-working farmors, and tho manner in which things aro kopt about the farm indicates this. Aloxandor cams to this county four years agolast October from DeKalb, 1ilinols, and’ mado tho purchsss of his place— 20 acrés—and, by hard work and judicious ocon- omy, succoeded finely, as hik 100 Logs, Iargo snd well-fillod cribn, young atocl, otc., attest. Honry Carnes was Icas Tortunnte in this respeet, as wa lonrn ho had nothing bub his Lousohold goods and other minor proporty. ¥ A subscription paper has already boon cirou- lated by Mr. Willoughby, and our cltizens have responded in their usual liberal mannor. Ono hundred dollers aro alroady subseribed nud most all poid, and only & few of our ¢itizens havo had on upémrtuulty to subssribe. . 8.—Sinca writing tho above wo learn that DOmefi' fearing mob-violonco, camo to Jofier- gon on Wednosdny ' and placed himself under the protection “of Shoriff Watts, About midnight o ‘ Committeo™ of about iwent; surrounded the Bhoriff's residonce _ nu domanded tho custody of DoLong. Tho Sheriff did not sce fit to surrender him without resistanco, and tho loaders of tho ¢ Comunitteo,” inatoad of ordering n charge on the Shoriff, counselled a retreat, und soon loft for their homes, 'Thoy ovidently came with tho intontion of making quick work of DeLong, aud to tho resoluto stand taken by Sheriff Watts ha undoubtedly is indebted for life at this timo, Wa counsol our friends to tho northwest to lot iho law zbido its timo, and let this last demon- steation bo the winding up of meusures 50 un- lawful and unwarrantabla. —_— THE DETROIT RIVER TUNMNEL. IProgross of the Workk—No Cuuszs for Divconragement Met With—Probable mime for Kty Complotios. From the Detroit I’cat, Ieb, 6, Many of our rcadora woro doubtless surprined rt tho report given out by the Board of ‘Lredo n fow days sinco, that almost insuporablo diffoul- ties havo been met with in tho construction of tho small, or drainego tuanel, in the shapo of quickeands, spongy earth, cte., rendering the completion of the mnin tunnel & mattor of gront doubt, and that_in any ovent at least fivo years will bo consimed in its building. The announce- mont was tho more surprising, s there had beon no provious intimation of the probable failure of tho innnel. 8o far as tho public kuew,evory- thing was progressing satisfnctorily with that great boro, and the statoment from so high nu- ter-Gccan. Do you take tLo Sennto of Iilnols thority as tho honorablo Board of ‘Irado, of tho probeble abandonment of tho project, wan woll caleulnted to attract nttontion. ‘Wo learn from tho ongincor in chargo of tho work that oporations upon tho drainago tuunal hins been carried on continuously aud without intorruption from tho timo of thoir commonca- mont, just ono year azo, up to_tho present timo, that tlio usnal forco of men is now omployad, and that ovorything Is progrossing in a mannor to him satisfactory. Boforo any oxcnvations woro commoncod boxings were mado nt intorvals of 100 feet or loss all nlong the line of the proposed tunnel, Theso borings woro mado fo tho dopth of tho main tunnel, invariably penctrating hard bluo cley—tho veryhostlkind of matorialin whicl to consfruct ntunnel—and domoustrating beyond n shadow of doubt to tho mind of tho ougincor the fonsibility of constructing n'railroad tunnel undor the Dotroit River. ‘Tho only thing sbont which thero was any question in connection with the project was tho adoqunte drainugo of this tunnol, 'Tho machinery used in boriug wes not of suificient strongth to send the drill down to the rock, and houca it was not ascortained what material would bo found botwaen tho clay and tho rock inwhich to construet the drainago tunnel, Tho pushing forward of the drainnge tunnel, theroforo, hns beon in the naturo of an oxperimont, a8 it was not known at ona step what would bo enconntored at tho noxt, Dut there has boen nothing mot with thus farof a discouraging nature, or to causo tho cngincer to doubt for & momont tho ultimato succoss of the rfiluut. g pon this sido of the river the dreinage fun- nel {ma boen pushed out nearly to the middle of tho rivor, & distance of 1,200 feot, whore work was suspended to commence oporations on the othorsido, Tho dificultios mob with on this slde wero numorous, but not by any means of au insuporablo charactor, Tho tunnel is, for most of the way, immedlately upon tho bed-rock and through s gort of drift”of bouldors and gravel mixod with clay and pookots of sand. Tho ro- moval of theso bonlders in a funncl of such small dimensions,—i¢ being lLut flve feot in diamoter,—waa n work of considerablo difficulty, Foul gases woro also met with on tho aurlnce of tho rock, the diapo- sition of which was a mattor of some difficulty. But all thoso things did not stop the work or oven Lindor it to any important oxtont. As thoso wora tho ouly diffienltios mot wilh, nnd as thoy are poouliar to the formation immmflatul{l incumbont upon tho rock, and not to the soli clay through which the maln tunnel will Lo con- strueted, L{’:urn i no upprohension of delay from them in that portion of the work., The ougineer bas not the elightest approhonsions of foul nsog in tho main {wunel. In (ho first place, Flmy o not oxlst In the cluy; and, in tho sccon: place, the tuunol will be “encined ina wall of solid brick or stone laid in cemout, which {3 ox- point, or to lond him to doubt the fensibility of building: o railroad tunnol under tho river at thia point, A — EVANS, THE CHILD~MURDERER. Ilo Confesses to Severnl Murders, Xn« cinding the Joyco Children in 1865, . ” Loston,; Mass, (Feb, T), L‘fl;;f;rmdmuq/ the New York 2 Franklin B, Evana, who was tried and convict- ed on Monday and "lhtosdey, and soutonced on Wodnesdny, to bo hung on’tho third Tuesday of Tobruary, 1674, at Exotor, N. ., for tho murdor of Georglans Lovering lnsé October, has mado tho startling confossion that tho last 15 yenrs of Lis 1ifo ing been almost ono scone of butchory, &l his victima being childron, In 1858 he esys that ho stolo nway sod killed a littla neico in Dorry, N. H., sged & yonrs, In 1861 ho ng. gaulted and cut tho throst of &' girl of 14 yours in Augusta, Mo, for which anothor man died in prison, while tho most- startling of his numerous crimes is tho murdor of Isabella Joyce, ngod 14, and her brother Jolhn, & boy of 12, in Bussey's \Woode, nenr Doston, in 1865, Tlicao murders, it will bo romemborad, crontod tho groutest oxcitemont all through New Eng- land at the time, It was Rlnin that the girl had Leen outraged, and the whole country was thor- ouglly scarched for tho murderer. But at last the old unyin‘; that murder will ont is again real- ized. Itisalso chargod that on Juno 10, 1872, Evans outraged s wompn found doad in the woods near Fitchburg, Mass,, and during the year ho outraged, mutilated, and murdored Georgisnn Lovering, o girl of 12 yoars, in Northwood, N. H., for whoso murder hels undor sontonce. Iis con- fansion in rogard to tho nbove crimes is briof ond indefinito oxcept as to the Joyco children, which was made to Deputy Bhoriff Honry A. Dravw, who arrested him and bad him in ohario ten days before Lio copumitted him to Exetor jall, and soven days boforo he revealed. to him the sooret of tho murder of . Georgiana_ Lovering. Mr. Drow oays that after Evous had confessod the murder he questionod him as to his whorea~ bouts for tho Iast fiftsn yoars, ¢ Finally,” suys Mr. Drow, *I traced him'to - Rhode Island, and {hon back to Roxbury, Mass. AMention of Rox- bury, and the similarity of the two murders sug- Fu!tud tomo for the first time that he might hnve porpotrated the murder of. tho Joyca chil- dron, of which I bind then but a dim recollection, snd of tho circumstances of which I have now but littlo knowledgo. I then interrogated him on tho subject,. and the questiong on my part nnd the roplies on his were deomsd by me of g0 much importanco that I immediately reduced thio substanco of the conversaiion to wriling." The following covers the main Polnts of “tho E‘;mfenalun cllcitod in regard to tho Joyco chil- ron : - ' 4 Question by Bheriff Drow—Well, Franl, what you tell me, you must tell me noiwr; toll mo all about it; were you in Roxbury Dauchostor—tell mo justasitis ? A.—~DIr. Drew, 11‘3\1;113 right thoro whon thet boy and girl were od, ] Q.~—Wag ho stabbed or not? A.—Yes, ho was, sevoral times., —Did the girl make much ado? A.—Yes. Toro than the boy did? A.—Yes, -~Why did sho? A.—Sho was raped ; don't ask me any more, I have now told you. Q.—Was tho act-committed boforo she was killed? A.—Yes, Mr. Drow; I won't say any mora; Ihave told you all about it now.. . Q.~“Well, Frauk, I guess you havo; but one thing moros Wau tho girl bruised much? A,— Yeos; I won't answor another question. My, Drow—Well, I won't aslk you any more, M row states that Evana furthor anid that tho Liouso whero tho childron camo from was on the Ieft-hand side o8 yon wont into Boston from Roxbury, and was o t\vo-nlorg; houso. " Alr. Drow said to him: ¢ Now, Frank, it was o littlo coitagoe-houso on the right-hand sido as you go into Loston ?" Iivans replied : *It was o tywo-story house, on i{m Lcn-lmnd sido s you go into Boston from oxbury."” The following afidavit is corroborative of Bheriff Drow’s statement: ty of Btratford, Btato of New Hampshiro, deposo and say that I was keopor over Franklin B, Ev- ann ot Honry A, Drow's houso; that I had a con- veraation with Evang in regard to the Joyco children ; Evans snid to me, **I hopo thoy won't bring that uf ti11 1 got through withthis ; if the do, what will they do fo mo?"” I.anawered, Wiihey will hang you twic Evans said #Thoey cannot kill me but ouceo." AzanAm WALDRON. Bworn and subeoribed to boford mo, Henay A, Drew, Justico of the Poaco. e T THE NORTHFLEET DISASTER. Statement of Ono of the Seameons The man Thomas Biddies, says the Dover cor- rospondent of tho London Daily Telegraph, who was ghot by tho Captain of the Northileet, is at tho Dover llospital ; and Mr, Grandison, tho bouso, surgoon, oxtracted tho bullot fxom hio log Inst night, The missilo is of load, and weighs fifty grnins, vI-‘or!.unntuXY tho bono of tho leg was not injured, and tho manis progrossing favorably, Ho hns mads a rathor important statomont, to tho following offect : He vetired to voat about 10}¢ ou the ovening of the 22d, and Lo thinks ho hind boon in bed uot moro than half an hour whon' the vossel received a vory sovero thack. On getting up ho ascertainod that the vossol had been run into by o slesmor; and almost immediately after ho roceive ed this information,” the ship's car- pontor, _ Dlaving _ oxamined the injurod purk of the vossol, gave the order for all hands to got on deck as quickly ns poesible, for the vesuol was sinking, Biddiss wontupon dook with tho rost, whoro n scono of gront eonfusion prosouted itsolf. Tho unfortunato omigrants woro stroaming on to the deck, half-dreasod and, almost mud with fright, Roclots wero firod off,, bells wore rung, and theusus] signaln of distres woro all quicldy givon, Biddiss thinks ho re- membors one gun belng fired, Tho pumps wore sot to work almout immediately, and noarly overy " ono on board the vesael worked with hoarty good will for about fiftcen minutes. Livery offort to gain on tho water cemsed, lowovor, whon ot tho oxpiration of that timo it was discovered that tho water hod roached tho sccond deel, Boddise vory much wauted to eave something that ho had in his chest below, and loft tho bumps to go down for that purposo, whon ho found that tho water had alrendy vouched the mlr of the eteps leading down to the dock whero his cabin was situstod, The confusion now incroasod on dock, Bome mon wore rushing about to find their wives and childron ; some wora ':ra[:nnug for tho awful cutnstropho which thoy know must soonhappon— unless thoy received help from the shore or from & paseing vessol—by laying hold of epare spars, lndders, pails, ote., Indeed anythiug thal would flost; whilo othos wore rushing frantl- cally to tho bomts, But amid all waas heard the flrm yoico of Captain Knowles, who, haviug seen his wita jntoonaof iho bouts, stood attho wheel, givin(‘,; dircotions for ‘hn firing of sigunls, and dovising tho best means for wav- ing as wmony lives a8 pousible out of tho 400, “Tho women firat," kLo orled. I or were you in |- 1, Azariah Waldron, of Stratford, in tho coun- | blow tho man's brains out that dares to got Inta aboat.” But thin thront camo almost too lato. -Blddiag anw that the bonts on eithor sido woro filling fant with men, and socing no reason wh{ ho shionld not make 'an offort for his Jifa as woll a6 tho rost, ho jum&md into tho boat, at the storn in which - tho ¢ undor the caro of tho Lontawnin, and eronche up at the bow. Cnptain Knowlow sat {he move- mont, aud, anxlous that every opportunity of. eseape shonld bo given to tha frightonod wo- mon, ho ordored him out. Biddiss knew that the vegsol wonld mnk almost immodiately ha got on bonrd again, and that this was tho last chanco of eseapo; o ho resolutely refused ta oboy ordern. ‘Tho Captain repoatod tha order, and throatened to firo t was not o{)oymL ‘Tho bortawain, who had chargo ot the Captain's.wifo, endeavored to forco him out, but it svas of no avail. Captain Knowles motion< ed to tho boalswain to stand clear, and dise charged his revolver at Biddise' hoad. Blddiss almost felt tho ball pnas ovor his hond, Tha hit its mark, fired again at tho unfortuunto man, and this timo with offoct ; for the hall imbodde ftnolt in_the flosh just above tho loft knco, Biddies almont forgot tho pain which followed ; for tho shrloks and crion for ielp procacding from tho now fant sinking vosacl woro awful, almost drowning tho gound of the slarm-hell,which rang Incesguntly. Who bont in- which Biddies iad os curu_dbue with baro iifo wau etill lyiug along- side, and the poor wratches on tho vossel, fln&- ing tbat it was tho only available chanco of say- ing thoir lives, mude u ruch at tho stern to got in, but Oaptain Knowles still persovored in en- donvoring to eave tho women. Again the rovolver was raised at tho firat man who entered tho bont, Tho trizger wad putlod, but, fortunate- Br fortho poor fellow, nicknamed by the crow. illy Ducks, the pistol missed firo, Tho boat was oon entorod by flvo othora; and, befors Captain Kuovwles could offer any furthor romonstrance, thio xopos veoro enat off, wud tho boat waa rowed . husriedly away to tug, which had just stasmod u?Mlhu gpot, and lit up the horrible sceno with red lights. Hardly Lad tho bont, which containod nino porsons—namely, the Captain'a * wife, tho bostswain, four Inborers, icluding Biddias, nnd threo of tho ship's orow-—-got along- sido Lo tig, whon, by tho gleam nf tho lnst xockot in tho slty and tho lights from the tu; y tho figurchend of tho Nurlfiflcut was_ Boen Fo eink slowly undor water. Tho crowded stern rose up in’ tho air, and, with o loud rushing uolso, almost immodiately disn ppoared under water, loaving botweon 300 and 400 peoplo strug- gling for thoir livoa in the wator. Blddiss saya thint-this wan n scono thet neithor ho nor any one on bonrd tho tug will evor forget., Tha shrioks of tho sinkiug women and the loud crios of the meon for help_wera awful, and must - have boen hoard miles off. Somo of those who could not wwim waro floating on_barrels and ymln, which thoy were Dh‘.‘{;dll to leave hold of 'rom shoer oxhnustion. Biddisa noticed'ono friend of his in thewater—a marriod man, who, with hia wifo and only child, was_olinging to o ladder, "whon o wave camo and washed all threo off, The woman and child eank, and noverroso again, The unfortunato husband managed again to clutoh the laddor, but it was out of his power to enyo his wifo and cbild, 'Thirty-four pooplo woro pioked up by the tug, which mmmug closo to tho spot for tho whole night. @ = ey NEWS PARAGRAPHS, Towa burns 50,000 bushels of comn a dry. . —Galeoburg, 11l., olaiing 12,205 population, by clty consus, —Notcontont with her Buncombo, North Caro- lll;m waats to’ malke anew county and eall it -Brag fim peoplo of Bradford County, Pa., have voted 5,023 fo 2,777 againot license. —Two' magnificont now church buildings are ‘)mjnclerl in Buffalo, N.Y., by Trinity and the \Washington stroot Baptist congrogations, * —Tho Governor of Alabama has withdrawn TFlorida, | Y -—The Ponnsylvenia Central is sald to intend laying two extra tracks (meking four) its entire- longth, to acconunodate its increabing. business, —Exoter, N. II., vouches for the sroman whosa dead husband warnod her twice, in & dream, ta romove lor littlo sll of 8300 from tho savingd benlk, just before the Bhute defaleation, —dgorga K. Bnow, the publisher of Snow's Pathfinder Guide, Los pregented plans for g mammoth underground union depot at Boston, fronting on- Dock Square, The dopot would hq fl1 ronched by merna of o tunnel under Boacon ill, five-eighths of a mile long. * ‘Thora is_not a dolinr in tho Florida Biata Treasury. Thoe bonded ond floating dobt, ga- cording to tha reportof the Compfrollor Gon- eral, i 35,841,821, As thoro nro but 25,000 votors in Florida, each votar, zccording to this shows ing, is ““in for" $241 on a goneral nvornga, The county and’ municipal debts will probably run this averago up to 8400, ° —Providonco, R. L., ‘complains of a *tidel wavo! of scandnl-and slender, nud one O. I, Huocket, who has Leon contributing to this “wayo,” made o public apology in a card pub- lished in the papers, for slandor ngainst the. gmély]h?‘nnr of *“n lnwyor of thia city, Charles, . Cady. . s —Tho committeo of the Common Council of' Graud Rapids, Mich., on wator works has roport-. ed, 1ecommending Grand River as tho source of' supply, but without pecifying any perticnlar site for ‘tho works. - Tho committeo is instruct- @l to omploy & compatent ongineer to propare: plans, specifications, and estimates for worka on tho resorvoir system and having Grand River ag tho source of supply. | . e —Wa notice n paragraph going the rounds of our oxchanges to tho effcot that a County Court Mousp ia at onco to be orected in this oily at aw ‘expenso of 850,000. This is an orror. Itis ox- pectod that a jail will be speedily constructed at. n uxfionsn of yomo such an amount, but it iz not likely that o Court Iouse will bo put up un- (il the people are prepaved to maest the exponse nocessary to such an undcnnkin{;, when wa sup~ poso the magnitudo and stylo will bo mado suit- abfo to tho demaends of the occasion,— Galesburg Teqister. . & —A project is now on foot to annex = part. of Bouth Caroling to'Goorgia: The pnn{zlc ircctl: interosted in tho schemo are willlng to it, and it is underatood that Governor -Moses, of ‘South Cavolinn, alko favors it. Tho two 'counties in question aro Oconeo and Pickony, or what wea formorly tho Pickens District, unmmunoui% et Andersonvills and running the Hunces Niver thonco to tho North Cavolina line, * —Mru, Bhaw, ono of the victima of the Cam- bridge (N, Y.) polsoniug caco, died last Tuosday. "o contents of tho stomech of Llizaboth, o dnughter of this Mfl’ who died gomo days sinco, have been analyzed by a competent chemist, who found corrosive morcury. Lhoro is probubly na doubt of ‘the guilt of Charles Bhaw, the husband. and fathor, who is now in jail; and tho 3. Briggs who is'in prison as his ‘ussistant in tha torriblo business is in o situntion ecarcoly loss uunpleasant, gt —The wideninga slroady nuthorized in the- Boston burnt district ave tho following: Wash. ington stroot, from Millk to Summor, 60 foct,. $338,647; Summer strcot, $204,133; Lindall streat, ©80,950; Dovonshiro strect, ©07,051;. §28,865; Otis troct, £55,102. Theso are esti- mated costs, and reach neaerly a million of dol- lars, Bsforo tho strects aro rondy for businees, ropaved, relighted, and m good condition, thig sum will bo nonvor doublo tho nmount, —Lnst Thursdny ovening, ot Pana, 1ll., James Watkins, au old citizon, wont into Ott's'saloon,. bought » drink, &nd hauded Ott a bill to change, which ho playhully refuned to_do, locking tho bl up. Watking picked np o billiard_cue, nnd wade as though howould strike Ott. Ott pulled out his rovoiver, and, Yuink‘mg it towerd Wate Xinw, it went off, tho ball striking near the region of tho henrt. Watking is lying very low, aud i not oxpocted to livo. Ho oxonerated Ott from all blame, aa the wholo thing was done in fun, OLt way not arrosted, Dofining Drunkaxds, The Suprome Court of Olilo hins lately passed upon = quostion of cousiderable interest in ro- spect to drunkards, It wau decidod to what ex- tont the habit of intemperanco may yvoid o policy of insuranco. In this caso the porson insured diod in about eight mnonths afier taking tho pullc{, and it was proved that at tho time of effocting insurance and from that timo till ho- died ho was addicted to habitual intemporance, and from this his death resulted. The Conr divlded the drinking clnyscs into three olasses—- thoso who drink sometimes and upon occasions,. 08 it wore, moro by aecidont than otherwise, but in no exceptionnl @ mannor that no ono can say they liave any habit or regard to such uses; thoso who acquire n constant appatite for intox- ieating liquors und o regularhabit of using thom, 80 thoe system is kopt under alcololio stimulants: and thosa who, while remaining sober for a month, thros or eix months, or even a yearata tino, and rofuse to take auy intoxicating drink, thon go on u debauch fora greater or less poviod. ‘hese twa lattor classen wora held to come with- in prohibition of this policy, which stipulated that if the insured should die by renson of in- temperance from tho use of intoxicaling liquora the policy ehould bo void and of no effect. In the case undor referenco tho Insured, ordiunrily an eficiont businass man, belougs fo the class whoso constitutionally nervous appetite for nlooholio etimulants nuounts ton descase, and whoso excess no carthly considoration or per- Buasion can arrost until évraacnuon and sicknesa cumsol cossation, The Court, therofere, entored & Judgement for the compeuy, roversing tho dos oision of the Cowrt below, n{)h\ln‘n wifo was" sitting - - Captain, discovoring that tho firat abot had nok . . mesango rocommending tho annexation of West, ' DBedford streot, from Washington to' Chauney,. ,