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GRACIE'S KITTY. ‘The Sommambulistic Murderer. (OFFIUAL.) - ‘The examination of Wilfred , the boy = ae Gracie’ kitty, day by dav, :: ae =. >| Laws OF THE UNITED sTATES Weald ne lo ha the Be = < syeey prin Barend og myo aft these ah Passed at the Third Saseton of the ‘Ferty- aretet ball unwind. named Jobn Emerson, of Candia, New Hamp- Pend Se gh Lg ee the has already an- ; ss Kur sere ly, jew! aS atty answered sadly, ™ M Tethers "rhe justices who. held th AN in vain were dainty fare, counsel in the case and others, previously visi- Bread and milk all warm ané new, t d the injured boy and the premises where the of Repre~ — Downy nest and Purposes,” approved thind.egs =~ asault was committed. They found that he is America in Con- a Thinner, we fast recovering, though his face and mouth will Of any officer Rundred and sevestyvone, atal the act Seals ne es be much disigured, And he wil suifer the loss olin 4 sAin “act, wo authorise the ‘comm wo fingers and & thumb. claims to appoint special commissioners it peared from testimony about a | corps, or any enlisted man, however e: dozen witnesees tant there was ne, donne that | in fee military or naval service of the Usited {istimony and for other, purposes,” a rs the assault was committed by the boy. Fitts, ite jalarly two, be b Fount poor kisty cotl and deed while in a state of somnamba at about 1i . be. Tn her pretty baaket-bed. o'clock at night, and that he conscious of his act. It also peared’ that though the was never in the house before, he went to the bedside of the boy Emer- son, and after inflicting the ghastly wounds be o 4 And perfumed with pinks and t Rarely basa aman head 1 returned to the ft his uncle, which Pour d so soft aud sweet a bed. Pen get te aang shown Sas he fe , * tered a neighbor’s house by a ladder only a few Pe enn Ping Gracte’s little tender har nights previously, and was found in the som- | Seventy-three; and ad presenie! Po La Rpt gh Bien dl hambulle sleep with @ broad axe in his hand. | deputy provoet-marshal, or enrolling oficer, shall bo decmed t> be bared forever there. | “Then she lifte her £ a Trane N. Fitts, of Lowell, the boy's tather, not be held to have accrued prior e after. hit we tears Jownward Fo [Avproved, March 3 1873. he testified that he had performed many strange Pee Mags day of Jaly, eighteen hundred and where ith kitty th thonl?”” feats while in the somnambulic state. Samucl (GENRRAL WATURB-—N>. 6°.) ' testi va he rs eeasd Ax AcT to aménd an -ct entitled “ 4) 2abeih Akers Allen im Y Folks. itt, the jailor at Exeter, fied that ¢! or wi a a ed“ Aw art — Saas ees toy Fitts poked, several prisoners at the jal Organized military or naval torce of the Uni did not apply till subsequent wenty-sev- Bak propriations for the sapport of tue te forthe year ending Juue thittews | eyhtern buodred aud seventy,” aporove! Mareh third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. while m an unconscious state, States, or who otherwise volunteered and rern- INDIAN WARFARE. The boy Wilfred was very critically examined | dered service in any engagement with rebels or Indian warfare is just now a popular branch | and answered every question with great readi- | Indians, disabled in consequence of wounds or | Ty 4 great of military science, and Gen. Custer, in ts | ness and apparent candor. He appeared to be Injury received in the line of duty in such tem- sketches of ‘ Lifeon the Piains, at Sno. 17. That it shall be the daty of the Com- issioner ot Bett snacted by the Sewate andj eure of Repre- throws some | in excellent physical health. Hi. porary service; any acting assistant or contract m Pensions, upon any application by antatives of the United Stetes of America in Con- ght ov it from his own experietice it 1558 hoy Emerson yesterday morning. The inter: | suageom, disabled by angtwound or injury te- | the during her widowhood, letter or otherwise by or on bebialf of any pet Sonlticdl “Ae set tacking reaction of On ant “Iwas inthe actof taking my seat ‘or din- | view was pleasant, though Fitts expressed little | ceived or disease contracted in the line of duty | child or children until they severally attain the | sioner entitled to arrears of pension the eutitid = An act making appropriations for the ner my ride having given me @ splendid relish | gy mpathy for Emerson. while actually pefforming the duties of assisi- a sixteen yeare and no longer, and that if | fifteenth section of this act, or, if any such pen- support Of the army for the year ending Jane Jor the repast, when the shouts and firing of es ant surgeon or acting assistant surgeon with widow remarry, the child oF children shall | sioner shall have died, upon asimilar applies neth, eighteen th mdred snd sevenis.” ap. proved March third, eightem hundred and sixty nine, yo far modifie tt to authorize ana r a the savages informed me that more serious TiLeY Hows, AND THE Secret or nis © \- | apy military force in the field or in transitu or | be entitled from the date of remarriage. That | tion by or on behalf of any person entitled to Gutics were at hand. Every man tiew to arms | negr.—A recent number of the Congregation. | in pital, or any provost-marshal, deputy pro- | the provisions of this act are hereby extended | receive the accrued pension dae such pensioner and almost without cowmand rushed to oppose | alist contains an interesting biograph: OPT vost marshal, or enrolling officer, disabled by | to and made to embrace the officers and pri- | at his or her death, to pay or cause to be paid the enemy. Officers and men provided them-| Howe, whose name was a household reason of any wound or injury received in the | vates of the Missouri State militia, and the | to euch pensioner, or other person, all such ar- selves with ritles carbines, and soon began | throughout New England well-nigh a century | discharge of his duty, to procure a subsistence | provisional Missouri militia, disabled by rea-on | rearsof pension as the pensioner may be enti- delivering a liberate but ineffectual fire | since. His easy, aimless lite, and hls eccentric- by manual labor, bas been since the tourth day | of injary received or disease contracted in the | tled to, or (if dead) would have been entitledto Seainst the Tudians Phe latter, as usual, were | ities of costume and manner, ashe rode his fa- | of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or | line of duty while such militia was co-operating | under the provisions of said section had he or qerely practisin their ordinary ruse de guerre, | yorite nag upand down the country from Maine | shall hereafter be impaired by reason of such | with United States forces, and the widow or | she survived: and no claim-agent or other per- Which was to display & very small venturesome | to Connecticat, gave him and his character a disability, he shall, upon making due proof of | children of any such person, dying of injury | sons shali be entitied to receive any compensa- Orce in the exp ‘jon of tempting pursuit by | notoriety that has crystallized into the familiar | the fact, according to such forms and regula- | received or disease contracted under the cir- | tion tor services in making application for ar- an equal or y superior after | proverb of ‘-Easy as old Tilley.” Ninety years | tions as are or may be provided by and tm pur- | cumstances herein set forth, shall be enti‘led | rears of pension. Raving led the parsuing force well away from | ago Tilley Howe, then good-looking and fresh | suatce of law, be pikced upon the list of invalid | to the benefits of this act: Provided, That the | Suc. 18 That the provisions of this act in re- the main body, te surround and destroy it by | from Dartmouth college, a preacher of the Gos- | pensioners of the United States, and be entitled | pensions on account of such militia shall not spect to the rates of pension are hereby ex- the way of overwhelming numbers, previously | pel, and delighted with his rofession, stood up | to receive, for a wtal disability or a p-rmanent | Commence io the date of the pawns of tended to pensioners whose right to pension ac- concealed im a ravine or ambush until the | to be wedded toa Yankee girl.~Then came on | specitic divabliity, such pension aie hereinaf= | this act. ‘That the provisions of this ses ion | erued under general acts passed since the war of peg moment. S -occison the stratagem | the unsolvable mystery of a long, clouded, | ter provided in such cases,‘and for an interior | shall be 80 interpreted as to apply to the wid. | the Revotution and prior to the fourthof March, lid not succeed. vided, or who shall wrongfally | permit the ident of the United States t wiibhold from a pensioner or claimant the whole t and with the advice and con- of any part of the pension or claim allowed and Sonate to ayporn’ one assi<tant ad due such pensioner or claimant, or the land- with the rank, pay ema warrant issved to any such claimant, shall be jor ip the *aid Gepartm deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, Approved, March %, 187 upon conviction thereof, shall, for every such offense, be fined not exceeding five hundred (GENERAL WaTCae—No.66 dollars, or imprisoned at bard labor not ex- | AN Act to amend an act entitied An act to ertablish the Department of Justice, and for Other purposes,” Be a onncted hy # f the Um charge and custody of the shali embezzle the same trust, or fraudulently convert the same to his twelfth section of th ¢ Indians, being mounted | wasted life. His —his «« ily wedded” | disability, except in cases of permanent sj ows, child or children of officers and privates of | eighteen hnndred and sixty-one, to take effect | own use, he shail vanished by tine not ex- > establish the I Bi i'charge in single with tho nuptial vow still warml'on ber | cine dusbilicy foc ehish te cake ae peasion i | the Misonr! State militia, and the provisional | fiom and after the twenty-aith aay of July, | eccding two thowsand dollars or izaprisanment | tsent'at rae tee often riding within easy car- | treacherous lips, suddenly and sullenly refused | expresel¥ provided, au amount proportionate to | Missouri militia, if the husband or father was | eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and that the 2, displaying great beld- | to remain with her own husband! Ten minutes | that provided for tot assable horsemanship. The disability, to commence over Recep! been = of whichhe | © : choos a ogee a pages oe a later she was on her way back to the~paternal | as hereinafter provided, and to continue durin; while in the service of the government of | ceiving a less sum shail be paid at the rate o! soldiers, unaccustomed to firing at such rapidly | mausion, which she had just covenanted to ex- | the existence of the disability: Provided, That | the United States. bi eight dollars per month from and after the Wwoving objects, were rarely ab to inflict | change for her own life-long home! She abso- | no c.aim of a State militiaman, or non-enlisted Szc.9. That the pensions of widows shali bs | twenty-seventh day of July, eighteen hundred Occasion- | Intely sealed her lips against the first word of | person, om account or disability from wounds | increased from and after the twenty-fifth day | and sixty-eight. ught to the | explanation. She mate no sign. The deed was | or injury received in battle with rebels or In- | of Jul eighteen hundred and sixty-six, at the Szc. 1). Thatin all cases in which the canse but the rider always succeeded im being | done. The reasons were her own. She was | di #, while ftemyporarily rendering service, | rate of two dollars per month for each child | of disability or death originated in the service Way on the pony of acomrade. It was | persistent. No ingenuity, no importunity, | shal. be valid unless prosecuted to a successful | under the age of sixteen years, of the husband | prior to the fourth day of March, eighteen hun- interesting to witness their marvelous abilities | could draw the secret out. She took it to her | issue prior to the fourth day of July, eighteen | on account of whose death the claim has been, | dred and sixty-one, and an application for pen- as horsemen; at the same time one coukl rot ‘ave. Never on earth would she see Tilley | hundred andseventy-four: And provided further, | OF shall be, granted. And in every case in | sion shall not have been tiled within three years bat admire the courage they displayed. The | Howe any more. Never a syllable from his pen | Tha: no person shail be entitled to a pension by | which the deceased husband has left,or sual! | from the discharge or death of the person on ground was level, open, and unobstructed; the | would she ever read. Overtures for re-union Feason of wounds or injury received or disease | leave, no widow, or where his widow has died | whose account the claim is made, or within troops were form an irregular line of | could not reach her in this = or ever pro- | contracted im the service of the United States | or married again, or where she has been d:- | three years of the termination of a pension pre- Ekirmishers dismoante!, the line extending a | ceed from her. Bv her own hands the veil was | subsequent to the twenty-seventh day of July, | prived of her pension under the provisions of | viously granted on account of the secretes end distance of perhaps two hundred yards. ‘The years, or both, at the discretion of the court. Src. 32. That any pledge, mortgage, sale, as- signment, or transfer of any right, claim, or in- terest in any pension which has been or may of each regular session of Congre-« hereafter be granted, shall be void and of no | a report of the business of the said Departmen ; effect; and auy person acting as attorney tore- | for the Inst preceding fiscal year, and of any ceive and receipt for money for and in bebalf | other matters a airing thereto, that he may of any person entitied to a pension shall, before | deem proper, including statement of the eov- receiving said money, take and subscribe an | eral appropriations now, or which ma) here- oath, to be tiled with the pension-agent, and by | after be, placed under its control, the emonec 4 him to be transmitted, with the vouchers now ppropriated. and a detailed statement of the required by law, to the accounting-olti- pounts used for detraying the expenses of the cer of the treasury, that he ‘no interest in | United States conrts in each judicial distric’: said money by any Pledge, mortgage, sale, a | also the statistics of crime underthe laws ol | at hi labor for a term not exceeding five not lifted, and now it never can be. We turn | eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, unless the | the pension law, the pension nted to such | death of the eame person, the pension sha!l | signment, or transfer, that he does not | the United States, and «statement of the 1 am. Juul had a rendezvous behind a hillock on | the leaf to say that Tilley Howe was thereafter person who was wounded Or contracted the dis- } child or children shall be incremed to the same | commence from the date of filing, by the party | know or believe that the same has been so dis- | ber of causes, civ criminal, pending du- the Tight, which prevented them from being | a wreck. He abjured all knowledge of a single | ease was in the line of duty; and, if in the mili- | amount per month shat would be allowed under | prosocuting the claim. tho last Paper requisite posed of to any person; and any person who | ring the preceding year in of Ehall faleety take the said oath shall'be guilty of | Lak ene Preceding vear in each of the several perjury, and, on conviction, shall be liable to Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, | the pains and penalties of perjury. and he is hereby, authorized Sec. 33. That any person whoshall knowingly | furnish to the head of the Do or wilfully in any wise procure the maxing or | lice. from time to time. x Seen or disturbed by the soldiers. Starting out | fact on his part, or on hers, that could have tary service, was at the time actually in the | the foregoing. provisions to the widow, if living | to establish the same: /rovided, That no claim singly, so by twoe aud threes, the warriors would | stimulated Ber to such strange recreancy. Bat | tield, or en the march, or at some post, fort, or | and entitled to a ion: Provided, That the | allowed prior to the sixth day of Jane, eighteen sucilenly Icave the cover of che hillock, and | the delicate balances of reason had been struck, | garrison, or eu route by direction of some com- | additional pension herein granted to the widow | hundred and sixty-six, shall be aifected byany- Pith war whoops aud tuuts dash over the plain | and could never be restored. He was bewil- | petent authority to some post, fort, or garrison; | On Account of the child or chifdren of the ins | thing herein contained. there. we Parallel to that occupied vy the sul- | dered. He knew not what to make of it. The | or, if in the naval service, was at the time | band by a former wife shall be paid to her only | Sec. 2). That nothing in this act shall be 80 diers, and within easy carbine range ¢ ofthe late | mental energy to breast the storm could not be | borne on the books of some ship or other vessel | for euch period of her widowhood as she has | construed as te allow more than one pension at | presentation of any false Or frauda! nt afila- | ji-he vctent number of the stetu: ter. The pony seemed possessed of the designs | rallied. He had outlined a life-work, with the | of the United States, at sea or in harbor, act- | been, or shall be, char, with the mainte~ | the same time to the same person or to persons | Vit concerning any claim for pension or pay- | United States, and the reports of the Suprem and wishes of his dusky riue he seemed to ofachild. He felt an assurance that | ually in commission, or was at some naval sta- | Rance of such child or cl ildren; for any period | entitled jointly; but any pensioner who shaillso | ment thereof, or pertaining to any other mat- | Court of the United States. w be by him «i fly unguarded by bi rein, or spur. The | work itall through by the aid of one | tion, or on his way, by direction of competent | during which she has not , OF she shall not | elect may surrender his or her certificate, and co-working hand. Alas, that that very hand | authority, to the United States, or to some other | be, so charged, it shall be granted and paid to | receive, in lien thereof, certificate for any | should have been lifted to defeat and destroy | vessel, or naval station, or hospital. the guardian of such child or children: Provided | other pension to which he or she would hive ter within the jurisdiction of the Commi Warrior would fire and load and fire again as of Pensions, or shall knowin, tributed to such officers of the courts of the Often as was able todo, whi United States as are now or may hereafter be e dashing alon, sent or cause to be presen’ y | by law entitled to receive them; and all laws or lealen builets fired | him forever! Ever afterward he became the 1m. Szo.2. That the pension for total disability | furtt-r, That a widow or guardian to whom ins | been entitled had not the surrendered certiti- | agency any power of attorney, or other paver | parts of laws authorizing the distribution ot and personation of indolence and imefficiency. shall be as follows, namely: For lieutenant- | crease of pension has been, or shall here ifter | cate been issued: Provided, That all payments | required as a voucher in drawing a pension, | such statutes and reports of the Supren:> Coar: latter improved a which paper shall bear @ date subsequent to | to theofticers of the courts of the Unit «1 Stars gers whistled uncomforta that on which it was actually signed orexeca- | by the bead of any ted, such person so offending shall be deemed colovel and all officers of higher rank in the | be, granted on account of minor children, all | previously made for any period covered by the Deapon the threshold of success might very | military service and in the marine corp not be dedacted from the well have been the epitaph on the living burial | for captain, and all officers of higher d certificate. nd © deprived thereof by reason of their b-ing | new certificate shal , | maintained in whole or in part at the exponss | amount allowed by or Exeeative Depart ; ment of the governmen and thesam>are | | of two members of a London law firm who have | Commander, surgeon, paymaster, and chief en- | of astate or the public in any educational in- SxC. 21. That deciarations of pension claim- guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall, on by, repe Sea. : | recently dropped out of life. O: 1 | gineer, respectively ranking with commander | stitution, or in any institution organized for | ante shall be made before a court of recor), or | Conviction thereof, be punished by a fine uot | Src’). ‘T) sta register of euch books ehall be neck of the pony were | of actual starvation, and the t | by Jaw, lieutenant commanding and master | the care of soldiers’ orphans. betore some ofticer thfeof having custorty of its | exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprison- | kept, under the autho: f the head of the De- en, the rest of his person | of the destitutionand misery or his life appear commanding, in the naval service, thirty dol- Sxc. 10. That im the administration of the | geal, said officer hereby being fully authorized | ment for a term not exceeding three years, or ent ot Justice, showing the quantity of covered by body of the | in the London Zimez,and wastold so impr lars per month; for major in the ilitary ser- | pension laws, children born before the marriage | and empowered to administer and certify any ly that it attracted much attention. A short | Vice and In the marine an, sud lieutenant, | of their parents, if acknowledged bythe father | oath or affirmation relating to any pension or time afterwards his partner was arrested for | €urgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer, re- before er after the marriage, sual! be deemed | a ation therefor: Provided, Tat the Com- stealing a book from the law library of the In- | spectively ranking with lieutenant by law, and | legitimate, ‘ . missioner of Pensions may designate, in lovali- ner Temple, and selling it for ten shillings. | Passed adsistant surgeon in the naval service, zc. 11. That the widows of ooloredor Indian | ties more than twenty-five miles distant from ‘The proof was clear and fe was convicted. He- | twenty-five dollars per month; for captainin the | soldiers and sailors who have died, or shall by both, at the discretion of the court before ba kind received bv bite in pursamne> of th « whom such conviction shall be ba!; and no of money duc, or to become due, to any sioner uncer the laws aforesaid, shall be li: to attachment, levy, or seizure, by or under any frequently de- soldiers; having he warrior was m | and it shail be his duty to cause to be en- tered in such register, and at the proper tim>, when where, to whom the same, or any | partot them, have been detributed and deliv- any place at which such court is holden, per- | legal or equitable process whatever, wheter | ered, and to report the sume to { ongress in his fore receiving sentence he said: “I have gone | military service and in the marine corps, chap- | hereatter die, by reason of wounds or injuries | sons duly qualified to administer oaths, berore | the same remains with the Pension-Ofice, or | annual report, {Approved, March 3, 1575. ‘ for weeks ‘and montbs without a dinner, living | lain in the army, and provost marshal, profeas- | received, or casualty received or disease con- | whom declarations may be made and testimony | any officer or agent thereof, or is in course of | ” ———— upon bread and tea. I have sold the coat from | OT of mathematics, master, assistant surgeon, | tracted, in the mili or naval service of the | taken, and ty accept declarations of claim- | transmission to the pensioner entit’ed thereto, a { sre ab, aes ne—No. 6 my back, the shirt from my body to supply dai- | assistant paymaster, and chaplain in the navai | United States, and in the line of duty, shall be | ants residing in foreign countries, made before | but shall inure wholly to the benefit of «uch pen. | A® octet etune for the ehestinn of ey ‘The savages really kept the camp in # state of | jy wants; but I have never been charged with | service, twenty dollars per month; for first lieu- | €ntitled to receive the pension provided by law | a United States minister or consul, or before | sioner, = = ther, atives from the State of California to ge, so that at no hour of the day was it safe | dishonesty. Ihave worked hard ou the shelves | tenant in the military service and in the ma. | without other evidence-or marriage than satise | some officer of the country duly authorized to Src. 34. That in all cases of application for the Forty-fourth Congress. : individuals to pass beyond the chain of | ofthe Inner Temple Library. There are books | Tine corps, acting assistant or contract surgeon, | factory proof that the parties were joined in | administer oaths for general purposes, and the porment of pensions to invalid pensioners Be at enacted by the cement Howse of Repre- eects wuicl cuveloped the immediate limits | there of which Iam the author. Thave done | aud deputy provost-marshal, seventeen dollars | marriage by some coremony deemed by them | whose official character and signatare shal! be | to we apaath Cay of September of an odd year, | sentatives of the Caited Stairs of Amevion én ('on- of the camp. fore H became known that the | all that mortal man could do to obtain an hon. | per month; for second lieutenant in the mili. obligatory, or habitually recognized each other | duly authenticated by the certificate of a Uni- | the certificate an examining surgeon duly — me ied, That on the firet Wednesday in | Indians were so watchful and daring, many ! est and honorable livelihood.” He closed bis | Wty service and in the marine corps, first assist- | a8 man and wife, and were so recognized by | ted States minister or consul; declarations in | appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, or ptember, in the year cightesn hundred and harrow cseapes were m and many IAagu- | sory by begging the Court to punish him to the | aut engineer, ensign, and pilot in the naval ser. | their neighbors, and lived togethor af nach ne, | Chet mmuulater OF before a United Stetge | Of ©, surgeon of tne arey on sev, stating the | Soventy foes, Sere sea bo ginetedén cash oan. able, although serious inc occurted— | extent of the law, hoping “‘to find, before his im- | Vice, and enrolling officer, fifteen dollars per | to the date of enlistment, when such soldicr or | agent; and declarations in claims wader the act | Con‘inuance of the disability for which the pen- aed district in the State of iaone Jeugbable, Lowever, only to those who were uot | prisonment should end, ia felon’s grave the | month; for cadet-sbipman, passed midshipman, | eaitor died in the service, or, if otherwiss, to | of February fourteenth, eighteen hundrod and | sion was originally [eed {describing it,) and | Mepresentative to represent seid a the the parties most intiresied. One of setlo- | repose he had vainly sought in the pursuits of | midshipmen, clerks of aduirals and paymas- | date of death; and the children born of any | seventy-one, made before-an officer daly the degree of such ibity at the time of ma- | Fo:ty-‘ourth Congress of "he Uhited States. Comic inchlents was as foliows : | life.” The Judge imy don him the lightest | ters, and of other ofticers commanding vessels, parriageso proved shall be deemed and heid to | thorized to administer oaths for general pur- | king the certificate, shall be required to accom- Approved, March 3, 1873 «There waxa beautiful, clear stream of water, | penalty of the law_ste months’ imprisoniaent. | Second and third assistant engineer, master’s | be lawtal ce of such soldier or sailor: | poses, when the applicants, by reason of infir- pany the vouchers, and @ duplicate thereot 1Gex % KATUCAR—No. 63 named Bloft Creek, running throug is fate is but another incident to prove that | mate, and all warrant officers in the naval ser- | Prorided, Thi® this section shall not be appli- | mity of age, are unable to travel: Provided, | Sball be filed in the office of the Commissioner ax Act to me op ine wale ~ . which supplied bathing facilities to the > | thereal poor are not the vulgar mass who beg | vice, ten dollars per month; and for all enlisted | cable to any claims on account of persons who | That any declaration made before an oflicer | of Pensions: and if in a case of continued di-a- OT te aw anien uulading jo: steam- and men,a privilege which out few allowed to | from door to door and at the street corners, but | men whose rank or office {s not mentioned in | shall have enlisted after the passage of this act. | daly author:zed to administer oaths for general | bility it shail be stated at a degree below that a : bn a oom Digi a oz FES mimproved. “Whether to avoid the p the men who eat their hearts away in vain ef- | this section, elght dollars per month; and the | Suc. 12. That if any person basslicd, or sali Farrer hall be accopted to exempt © claim | for which the pension was erigpbally gronted, | | Sem enartal ty Gs Senate and Bouse of Repro Hcity Attending localities near camp, or to| torts of striving for the foothold in. the world to | Masters, pilots, engincers, sailors, and crows | hereafter die, lea 2 widow entitled to a pen- | from the limitation as to date of filing prescribed | Or was last pald, the pensioner shail only be | #hiativrs of the . Seer ee oe a he os seek a point in the bed of the stream where the | which their aspirations and their abilitiesshould | "Pen the gunboats and war-vessels shall be en- | sion by reason of his death, and a child or cuild- | in the fifteenth sectionof this act. paid tor the quarter then due at the rate stated Bu “sd «thee oe vy suai = the water was fresh and undisturbed, or from a] entitle them to. titled to receive the pension allowed herein to | ren under sixteen of age by such witow, Sxc. 22. That the Commissioner of Pensions, | in the cate: Provided, That when a pen- —_, co = - monn ar —_- hyd motive diiterent from these, two of our young those of like rank in the naval service; and | and itshall be dafy certified under seal by any | on application being made to him in parson or | Sion shall be granted for Sat rine one or biche oe Oar, — ons) ol @fficers mounted their horses one day, without | FLANE ITIVE TO Sorxp.—Some curious | every commissioned officer of the arm court having probate jurisdiction, that aatisfac- by letter by any claimant or applicant for pen- | upon the loss of 8 limb, or other essential por- | Sn¥ Portat which steamship qn lewy Bade and rode down the vailey of the stream | experiments were made, a few years ago, by | Or marine corps, shall receive such ai y | tory evidence has been produced before such ion, bounty-land, or other allowance required | tion of the body, or for other cause which can- abet pam may rive, epee = after the is- perhaps a mile or more in search of a bathi: Prof. Tymlal, on ‘sensitive flames.” He ‘as is heroin provided for the rank | court upon due notice to the widow that tbh: | by law to bo adjusted or paid by the Pension- | pot in whole or in part be removed, or when a | *Uing general order, to grant, upon proper Place. Discovering one to their taste, they | served that in a drawing-room the gas such pensions he hela atthetime he received the injury, or | widow aforesaid has abandoned the care of saci | Office, ebali furnish such person, free of all ex- dismounted, secured their horses, and, after | kept time with the music ¥ their dames b: contracted the disease which resulted in the | child or children, or that she isan unsnitable | pense to him or her, allsuel printed instructions disposing of their apparel on the greensward | ing longer or shorter, aceording to the various disability, on account of which he may be en- | pereon, by reason of immoral conduct, to have | and forms y be necessary in establishing covering the banks, were soon floating and | notes produced on the piano. "Tabs he justiy at- | titled to a pension; and any commission or pres- | the custody ot the same, or on presentation of | and obtaini: id claim; and on the issuing of —, im the water like a pai young | tributed to the vibrations caused in the air, and | idential intment, regularly issued to such | satisfactory evidence thereof to the Commi:- | a certificate of pension, or of a bounty-land rpoises. How long they had been enjoying thi= | he soon, by direct ex; ment, confirmed this person, all be taken to determine his rank | sioner of Pensions, then no pension shall be | warrant, he shall forthwith notify the claim ant caithful recreation, or how mach longer they | view. This experiment was lied tothe meas- | from and after the date, as given in the body | allowed to such widow until such childor child- | or applicant, and also the agent or attorney in might have remained. is not necessary to the | ure of explosive substancesin the following way: | Of the commirsion or appointment conferring | ren sball have attained the age of sixteen vears, | the case, if there be one, that such certificate story. One of them happening to glance to- | Ata distance of five meters from a fiaine he | eald rank: Provided, That a vacancy existed in | apy ns of this act or of any previous act | has been issued, or allowance made; and the ward their horses observed the fatter in a state | placed an anvil, on which he alternately ln’ the rank thereby conferred; that the person | to contrary notwithstar 5 and the said | dat d amount thereof. of great trepidation. Hasten'ng trom th> water | fulminate of mercary and iodide of nitrogen, | Commissioned was not so disabled for military | child or children aforesaid shall be pensioned 3. Phat no money on account of pen- tothe bank he discovered the cause of the | and then caused their explosion by the stroke of | duty; and that he did not wilfully neglect or | in the same manner, and from the sam> ‘late. | sion shall be paid to any person, or to the wid- nge conduct on the part of the horses, which | a hammer. In this way he ascertained that the | refused jo be mustered. as if no widow had sarvived sucn person, an‘ | ow, children, or heirs of any deceased person as uothing more or less than a party of about | latter substance produced ne effect on the Sxc. 3. That for fun pecies commencing July | such pension shall be paid to the guardian of | who in any manner voluntarily engaged in, or thirty Indian warriors, mounted, and stealthily | flame, while the fulminate caused it to vibrate | fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and | such child or children: Provided, That if in any | aided or abetted, the late rebellion against the making their way toward the bathing party, | according tothe notes la. do, mi, fa,sol. Hence | ending June third, eighteen hundred ‘and sev- case payment ot pension shall have been made we ong | of the United States, dently having their eyes on the latter, and | he concluded, not only that the vibrations affec- | enty-two, those persons entitled to a lexs pen- | to the widow, the pension to the child or child- Szc. 4. That no claim for pension not prose- intent upon their capture. Here wasa condi- | ted by the iodide were different from those of | sion than hereinafter mentioned, whosha!! have | ren shall commence from the date to which her | cuted to successful issue within five years from tion of affairs that was atleast as unexpeeted { the latter only affected certain notes, excluding-| lost both feet in the military or naval ssryice | pension has been paid. the date of filing the same shall be adm tted as it was unwelcome. Quickly calling out his | the intermediate ones. These experiments he | and in the line of duty, shall be entiticd toa Suc. 13. That if any person embraced within | without record evidence from the War or 7 companion, who was still in the water uncon- | repeated with different explosive substan-esand | pension of twenty dollars per month; for the prt pet taneger sag the first section of this act has partment of the injury or the disease whicl sciousot approaching danger, the one on shore | with similar results confirming his theory. same those persons who, under like cir- before the fourth day of March, eighteen | resulted in the disability or death of the p2rson made haste to unfasten their horses and pre- cumsta shall have lost both ds or the a and sixty-one, or shall hereafter die, | on whose account the claim is made: Provided, pare for itight. Fortunately the Indians, who] Tp Jackson STATUE—The Richmond Ea- eo ag ds ae. shall be entitled to a te sion of twen' an disability is certutied by competent examining | plication therefor, @ special Noemse to unlade faction Com: the cargo of said vesse! «i ni that i+ to say, aa of ceo Commis. | Setwesn aumsst and snuries; tet bobaboaperes eq special raed I med, the mtster, agents, Sbeve certificate mecensa! orconsignees of the vessel shall execute an: i penslocer to payment, tne pnriany | Geliver to the said collector agood an’ sam- Further, That thie section shail not bs outraed | lent bond, to be approved by him, comdieroned it the Commissioner of Pensions trom | t indemnify and save the collector harm- quiring a more frequent examination if, in | l¢¢ from any and all lossesand liabiities which “ment, it is necessary. may cccuror be eccasioned by reason of That the Commissioner of Pensions = such special license: And provid: ', be, and he is hereby, empowered to appoint, at {bat apy liability of the masteror owner of any his discretion, civil surgeons to make the pri- | SUch steamship to the owner or consignee of odical examinations of pensioners which are,or | 80Y merchandise landed from eaid vescl shall may be, required by law, and to examine appli- | BOt be afected for where he shal! Ete u ff if Fy #8 deem an ex- , rey: a by him -_ ry, an for eu nations, pomgitbenty certificates thereof in uplicate same may b: |, a8 the collector, including postage on such as are? transmitted | Such general Secretary orthe to ] as the ts, shall be two dollars, which creer ey Prescribe, shall fx a uniform and im | Teasonable rate of compensation for like ser- Seizetecaccentm cs mememea.e | stares sa ds eee My 5 ‘such ts granted, reason of any wound, casualty, or | That in any case in which the limitation pre- | @nt resides, out of any money appropriated for = iy were vow within atew hundred yards of the | qusrer saps: Dung the Ware ane ee five dollars per month; ai which, upder the conditions snd liaite: | scribed by is ection bars the further prosoca- | the peyment of pensions, under such regular — collect and divtribate the eam: among two officers, were coming from the direction | fey geatlomete he’s ized with the | the period commencing March third, eighteen | tions of said section, would have entitled him | tion of the claim, the claimant may recor tions as the Commissioner of Pensions may pre- nopomere amsiqned to Eiperiatené. the an- opposite their camp, leaving the line of retreat | Sout en cence’ ae, sympathized with the | Run Rred and sixty-five: and cadieg Jasetiien, | toon inveiit and has not left or shall | through the Pension-Office, to the Anjutant: | ecribe. ~ lading of the cargo. (Approved, March 3, 15/4 for the officers open. No sooner did the war- | Seited In the efecto eae Cer ere ioPe> | cighteom hundred aud seventy-two, thoae por? leave a widow or legitimate child, but has | General of the army or the Surgeon-General of | _ Suc. 36. That the Commissioner of Pensions genre Fiors find that their ch was disc Hal oe the geet Vee Tete aus maemo, | Sone who under like circumstances ‘shall, Nave | lett or shall lanve other oiative Or elctiocs wae | ane ei ny ote St or inj ‘authori: [GuwmRat xaTvRE—No. 69} than they put their poles to their beat speed, | Fact the great Virginia soldier who fell at | {55° one nawa and one foot abel ee een ee | Cate tense deare other relative or relatives who | the navy, evidence th ‘oF death of mmf As Act to provide for the pre- hoping to capture the offers before the fetter | ChanceVorsville. ‘They have had made »statue | (0st one hand end one foot, shall be entitled of such relative or relatives | on whose account the claim ls made teil contation o> Revision of the se: sree thon pod og ts latter | of bronze, of herstc siz0, and representing the wenty per Dene dap resuves s Originated horses oa under headway. The two officers in the mean- | Rete asst by while were far from idle; no flesh brushes a date of his death, suc! the period commencing June sixth, eighteen | shall be entitled in the following order of pre | in the service and in the line of duty; and if ing theegat’ tas Gok atl bance en |S and sixty-six, and ending June ‘third, | cedence to. recelve the same pension, as such such evidence is deemed satisfactory by the off time since, but owing to circumstances which | eighteen hundred and seventy-two, those per- | person would have been to had he been | cer to whom it may be submitted, he shall relating to military offences, and the revision of treaties with the Indian tribes now in bat! towels were required to restore a sons who under like circumstances shal! have | totally disabled, to commence from thedathof | cause a record of the fact so proved to be made, healthy circulation, nor was time ‘wasted tn an | Sit,be better Pre ie ee eee a the | Soot one band or one foot, shall be entitled to's | such persou, namely, first, the mother; second- | and a copy of the same to be transmitted to the Dik gs Bititetek Sn of aww Adie atte rept fo make a toilet. If they had | country. Lately, however, Mr. has writ- | Nongeom! of fifteen dollars per month; and for father; ily, orphan brothers and sis- | Commi r of Pensions, and the bar to the sentatives of the United States of America in Com- Sought thetr bathing-ground from motives of | ten to a Virginia’ officer, who was the intimate riod commencing June sixth. eighteen sixteen years of who sball be | prosecution of the claim shall thereby be re- ‘That where Inoved. : 5 v the same parent have different guar- Suc. 25. That if pensioner, or any person & portion of them only are under Gaar- | entitled to pension who during the penaancy share of the Joint pensio ot his application therefor has diedsince March a undred and si retirement or delic: no such sentiments were comr: tonewall Jackso hundred and sixty-six, and ending June third, exhibited now, for, catching up their wardrobe | susie as ts the Toe aa ons asking is | cighteen hundred and seventy-tac, those pert from the ground in one hand, and seizing the | the statue, and the reeipient of this communi- | 9208 entitled to a less pension than hereinafter eeee on thers bores Wack, One, leap and they | cation has consulted with other Confederate | Mentioned, who by ie ec ee were on their horse's backs and riding ward <, . | OF disease contracted in military or naval ¢amp for dear life. ‘They were not exactly in | *yuctts;, AS yet, no determination has been ar. gress assembled, That a committee of three of the Committee of the House ot Kepresentatives Kevision of the Laws, with committee of the Senate, is hereby authorized, tion, to be flied in the Department of as may be em- be required him, from time to time, as he |} deem for by re be fourth, eighteen bi ixty-one, or shall Justice, rived at; but it cannot belong beforea site will | Service of the United States andin the line of | guardian of such ward: Provided, That if inany | hereafter die, his widow, or if no widow, his ment, to make spe- | °) “ the condition of Flora MeFlimsey with nothing | he chosen. Strait hove. been aneutly and totally | case said person shall have left father and | child or children, under sixteen years of age at pensioners, or icants to wear, but to all intents and Parpoces might disabled in both hands, or who shall have lost ho are dependent upon him, then, on | the time of bis death, shall be entitled to re- | for pension, and such examinations i have as weil have been 0. Then followed a race| A Questiow oy TimE—A curions lawsuit the sight of one eye, the other having been pre- | the death of the mother, the father shall be- | ceive the accrued pension to the date of death, | Precedence over examinations, whether — h, obey tafe —— dy ys the | was lately heard in Liverpool. The steamer Regret OF who shall have been otherwise | Come entitled to the pension, commencing from h ion shall not be considered as | special or justice is al- ers, might well be compared to that of John | ¢; ly such accrued pens: 80 and permanently disabled as to ren- | and after the death of the mother; and upontae | a part of the assets of the estate of Gilpin. “Both of the officers were experienced | owners for twelve mEntLs for Lonwon OF the | Ger them utterly helpless, Or so neatly ao a to | deathot the mother and father’ soccer tne | Set ; but when inj leged to have been done by an examination #0 liable to be app or horsemen; but what experienced horseman | Sth of August, 1872, the vessel then at sea | ?equire regular personal ald and attendance of | death of the father and the remarri debts of said estate in an , the Commissioner of Pensions may, at peda oo ere emer 8 board of Seen Gale ap would willingty care to be thrust upon the bare ance newed another person, shall be entitied to a pension | mother, the dependent brothers and sisters un- inted examin! penn anae senet at Back of a fiying stecd, minus all apparel, | happened thet some teen toy Hehe eoteece | of twenty-five dollars per month; and for the | der sixteen years of age shall jointly become to be Reither boots. breeches, nor saddle, not even | the sth and 9th of A: ‘the Caspian struck | Same lod those under like circum- | entitled to such pension until they attain the the spurs and collar which are said tocoustitate | on a rock in Belle Isle Straits and became a | 8t@nces shall have been age of sixteen years respectively, commencing Ly 2 of & Georgian Cyt and | total loss. The point in contro’ was as to bt gag od he p>. ¥ ‘che f the last sick. when +0 disposed of, ave three or four sco: sion: vided, | person expenses of the sick- Of hideously painted'and feathered savages, well | Wrattet, ‘he wreck occurred before or after be assumed to have bees | ness and burial of the decedent, in nese, wane - midnight, the underwriters, in the latter event - mounted and near at hand. straining every nerve | peco! for the » but not so much as to require regular it her son, within the meaning of | he did not leave sufficient assets to meet such and urging their tlect-footid war puntes to thelr | Of SumurSaceT Hts seeted eee wou | pgreomel aid And attontion, shall bo estited ae | Oot ook te ae an at sine meaning of | he did vot high ode in order that the scaips of the ex- | owners that the wreck did take P ‘after | & pension of twenty dollars per month; and for | other juate means of support than the ordi- . 26, That the failure of any pensioner to fenced horsemen might be added to the oth midnight, according to English time, the same pe! persons who under like cir- cant, proceeds of her own manual labor a1 the | claim his or her pension tor three after aman trophies which grace thelr lodges’ | on the other hand, it was shown that the cam. | ¢®mstances shall have been totally and — eontributions of said son or of avy persons not | the same shall have become dueshall be deemed =~ this was one of the occasions when per- ‘i : ‘i ty disab! in one hand, or one foot, or legally bound to aid in her support; and if, by ive evidence that pen: wor pearance is nothing, and ‘a mau’s a] Would bring it belore the important hour. The | otherwise so disabled as to render their inabil- contributions or in any other way, the ly terminated by reason of the quan tor &' that,” so at least thought our ama~| jury held. however, that the calculation of time | ity pry manual labor equivalent to the | 80n had recognized his obligations to aid in su; N's from ter Mazeppas as they came dushing towards | should follow the ‘place of the ‘and | 1088 of @ hand or foot, shall be entitied to a fod << mother, or was by law bound to | er otherwise, & ‘contract, camp,ever and anon casting anxious glani i wne} ‘ Pension of fitteen dollars per month. ret iieir shoulders. at the pursuers, who | (cided in favor af the owners. esbze 4 Bhat fom and after June fourth, the right of restoration to the sams on a new pite every exertion of the former, were surely 7 = an venty-two, a! ns overhauling thelr pale-faced brothers. ‘To the | _,282 EMBALMING oF Mazzin’s Booy.—a | Sgnucen hundred aad s than herein- i idond, by the weet sal dui pursued, camp seemed a long way in the dis- | & mlont from Genoa writes us that on the | after specitied, who, while in the military or tled to receive the cal and eurgical im the Pension-Oftice. Lance, while the shouts of the Warriors each | S"tversary of Mazzin’s death, the public were | Sftet, speciiied, whe ‘United States, and in line nied by evidence 25 the interests of the service may demand; time seeming nearer than before, warned them | alowed to see his body, which is boing em- | ot Gus onal rareiont ee ee na the mailare to elstun vac his salary shell be two five hundred to urge thetr steeds to their fastest pace. Ina | SAlmed. It was quite dros, with patoutleath- | 0; snail'have lost the sight ef one eve. the sigue cal evidence dollsrs per annum. And the Secretary of the few moments the occupants of camp discovered | CF b0Ots, black trousers, and Teer Red Up ip 8 | of the other having been previously last, or exempt from Interior is further sutborized to t euch She ayerouch of thie strangely appearing party. | HTE®, drewing-guwn, The, righ’ hand oo his | Shall haye lost both hands oF aiall have oat continuance of the Gualined (not p Your) os the Ht was an easy matter to recogalce the warriors, | Yeast; the loft straight by the side of the body, | heen feet or bees pertreeatin Sed eae ae ‘7. That when s of ths sorvice may reqaire, who Way Dut who could name the two who rode at ths | bit looks turned toward the visitors; his face of ‘abled in the samo, er otherwise 60 permanently and duration of a duties of ‘surgeons when frout? The pursuing seeing that | 3,0town yellow color, and on the face and head and totally disabled as to render them utterl} act are fixed by enek act, t Sbd'who shail be Gorss apom the they were not likely to overtake and capt See nataral hair neatly dressed. The articula- | netpless, or 90 nearly so as to require the regu. to be varied rolls ‘Of the fourth class: Provided, That the twe knights of the bath, slackened thay | tions were flexible the flesh soft. The prep- | igr personal ald and attendance of ansther tore donut the fuck appeiptments sball not increase the ‘clert- and sent a volley of arrows after them. - aration, howovor. [til tn ie period; in a shall be entitled to a pension of thirty-one ‘thus fixed the rete al force cata a ae moments Later, Otticers wei and twenty-five cents ‘ston shall Bn. ‘That all acts parts of acts incon- safe inside the lines, where they tost no time in ait (persone who, wader” like” ci en, fateh sistent or in. witn the provie their way to their tents to attend to cer- have lost one hand and ene foot, or been aball the of 5 Seabeate tenel ope cttery = = = ve vv * time before they fee performing sy manual labor, but o ted. : by their comrades as to end ma’ &. [(GumszaL the cut and style of g-suit.”? attendance, shall to & pengion of ber my ey ie A® Act to declare the true intent and four dollars 5 and persons EC. a Us —A travelle? my: whe, like ‘ciramstances, shail loat r who, like hai . ren every from a ae eins area consequence w_Lo green, from, to indigo, from that they cannot use arti- richest Fated in the SEeieee Roemieioe Ties ethene af & hue as dee: they behe! ‘a parterre of Howers or a collection of cireular lédvee, whose colors ranged fresh green of Spring to the autamnal upob the Virginia ereeper. To PREVENT CHOK break an egg into a cup and give it to Se pemen choking to swal- low. The white -of egg seems to catch around the obstacle and remove it. If one e does pot answer the purpose, try another. TI! white isall Wat is necessary. i 1 1 : E Hf He i i | | fi i - E i i ; i ul | SGeaEse