The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1872, Page 3

THE OUTLAW ». Sheriff Reuben King’s Assassination. Trial and Acquittal of Cal- vin Oxendine. SWAMP ANGEL VISITATION. JOHN DIALL, THE BANDIT’S, EVIDENCE An Alibi and Good Character Sworn To. THE MOTHER OF THE OXENDINES. THVILLE, Bronswick County, April tt, 187 To-day the trial of Oalvin Oxendine, one of the re- puted murderers of Reuben King, Sheriff of Robe- son county, came off. The day was truly lovely and spring-like, and nota single ripple disturbed the placid waters of blue Cape Fear. with perfume of fruit trees now in blossom, and vocal with the music of myriads of happy birds cele- rating the return of spring. Perhaps the bright- ness of the day brought renewed hope to the bosom ef the poor prisoner who has FOR THREE LONG YEARS deen hedged in by prison walls, At half-past ten precisely Court was Honor Judge Russell presiding. Neve cf writer has there been snch a general turning out of the peopie of good old Bruns- wick—not men alone, but by far the greater most respectable portion of THE LADIES The air was laden FP SMITHVILLE. Even the schools were closed for the observed listening eagerly to the ‘The ladies ovcnpied the seats to the right of the Jn a few moments the prison in, accompanied by his mother, and those who saw faw him three years ago say that he is not chan , and looks as Well as the first day the usual pre- in any particuls he entered the prison wails. Timinaries—shouting of the Sheriff for silen uting counsel were Willi 8. Normant, of Robeson; Colonel Neal A, Mek For the defence, Mars- , of Brunswick, and Daniel French, of for the State was John trial began. nd C. Roland, den Bellamy ‘The first witne: Diall, outiaw and mu Villanous-looking Veen my fortune to set eyes up EVIDENCE OF JOHN DIALI. years old; in January, 1809, George Apple- Boss Strong, Calvin Oxendine, Henderson Oxendine and 1 got together Fri eleven o’clock, at the upper end of ‘Thompson's lane; went on the s Tam about nineteen latter part, Henry ne night to t got there about daybreak all those mentioned were there: bay, low, flat wyed there until evening, good dusk; about half a mile from the BLACKED OUR FACES WITH SMUT, handkerchiefs on our Produced a handkerchief and placed it on h as on that night), and then George Applewhite cut him a stick, a black gum sfick; we then went to King’s house; King was sitting before the fire read- | ing a newspaper; another gentleman was house; Calvin went to the house with a pistol; Applewhite and Henry Bi (here witness Calvin, George then went into the house; Henry Berry TO SURRENDER King came forward to Henry Berry Lowery, caught they got tangied gun went had pistols, Applewhite fired his pistol at King and shot itn in the back; King fell; fell out of the house into the piazi i ts at the back part of the house; part of the body azza and part in’ the house off, too, and the load went into tiie the floor; King called felion the pi Berry's gun w Noor; | didn't see the hole in for God to have mercy on him; Boss Strong said if he did not hush he would BUST HIS HEAD OPES pockets and clothes, one shotgun at they did not li 1 believe they got it then; it was put the trunk into the | steps from the door—not far from the well; Boss | wateh; the; BROKE THE TRUNK OPE f they took anything from the trunk: ng this time about the about eleven o'clock, with ¢ Applewhite and Henry Berry, at Thompson's lane don’t know and staid with King until w where the stick Was cut in Jaumuary afte Howell, Mr. Brown and some other men went with mped that night: went | found where p the stick was cut. left; [saw the J me to the pla to show them where the had been, and whe (Here the stick EROUS LOOKING W time nearly a day: ements has been off ot put up to this by others:in Wilmington sendine, Henderson Oxendine, Steve ‘J ‘orge Applewhite tried to make me say that you (meaning counsel) put me up to wh ; Usweur that I never threats were use by magistrates or any one. was put up to it ; none made in Liumberton jail | Have been in jail for thiee ye Is induced to go with King’s to rob him; was also an outlaw at that time 1 ited ouce to Mr. Frenct confessions at Lunt vard: 1 don't know who put the pistol to Miss Penny Joey: | had no conve with Strickland whether this swearing will Howell and [talked about land heard me ‘The Court ad rs} am a State wit- the ontiaws to T told him | was fore know who shot don't know Ine or not: T don't think Strick- at the same time. | rhed at this stage until halfpast three, when the. trial was resumed. the widow of the murdered 8 She te a woman about sixty motherly sort of person. eri}, Was neXt called, T heard a noise shots fired in quick succession; hea urrender and give up your mou y, saw Mr. Kine lying ver him; he was KR HIS LIPES ny men there wa was a bright ward was in the house with my husband the time; he died on the 13th of Maret, 18 out of (he house a silver watch, single and shot gun, also two was in the yar ran in from don't Know how 1 case, a pistol DUT LErPALES 5 , broken open, a few steps from tlie was a large hole in the floor; Ward stick was left house— (here it was produced, -1 was told that a connterpane found afterwards. Twas at Reuben King’s, in the county of Robeson, 5 the sume time; it Was growing dusi heard sore one sity, and give up your Tran in; saw King lying on the piazza n standing over inm; he begged me to raise HIM SOME WATER; to raise hin; if I didn’t hush he would kill me; saw Hid not recogygze her up for the wateh the shirt siipped back and [saw the white skin on the arm neck; there was a large hole in the feor made by alko the white on thy MIN HOWELL, formeriy Sheri of Robeson connt moned; I know John Diall; at time; John Diall said he was one of the 180 voluntarily; T told Jolin if he anything about it he had th Bhowed we tie staiap Wh was next sin ter teil; don Dialt © the Uck Was cut, wad {tne spot where they blacked their faces; I swear ‘thi i HELD OUT NO INDUCEMENTS to John and made no threats; he confessed of him- self. Mt TESTIMONY OF RDWARD WARD. Iwas in the house on the night of January 13, 1869, when Reaben King was shot; he was reading a newspaper; heard a noise and looked up; saw three men standing in the door; they called to him | to surrender; he arose and went toward them, | when they presented a gun to lim; he pushed the gun down, and it went off, making a hole in the floor: some one at that time shot me: was in great I did not know the men; they were dis- TESTIMONY OF DR. NORMANT. Tam a physiclan; have practiced eighteen years in Robeson; was called on Saturday night to Reu- ben King; found hina lying on his back; raised his arm, and attempted to probe the wound, when blood flowed from his mouth; for some cause the probe would not enter; the wound was undey the | right shoulder blade, between the | ribs; he died on the March following; he was PARALYZED BY INJURY TO THE it is my opinion that his death was caused by that wound, which cansed gangrene of the lung. After hearing the evidence of Drs. Bick and Sinith, which was corroborative of the foregoing the Court adjourned until seven o'clock in the evening. SOLEMN SCENE. It was a scene worthy the pencil of Hogarth—the ditniy lighted room, the stolid faces of the jury, the solemu-faced judge, and the prisoner, whose eyes w wearily closed, and the mother, who never left | his side, standing, still standing there outside the | prisoner's be the ladies’ whose interest never flagged, sitting patiently to hear it through, The scene is indellibly impressed on the minds of many who witnessed it, Nothing of the kind was ever | known to equal it in interest here, The prosecution having rested, THE DEFENCE WAS OPENED. The first witness was Fletcher O'Neil (colored), who testified as follows: 1 was called in to tron the prisoner's (John Diall’s) feet in the Jail at Lumberton; heard Sheri! Howard say to ge “John, old fellow, we've got now goon and tell all about the murder of uben King;” John said, “I know nothing about the murder; Howell said, “You had better tell and turn State's evidence; for we will catch all those Balle) and then one of them will tell and you'll be hung.” TESTIMONY OF DUFF CUMMINGS (colored—) I live ‘in Robeson and work in turpentine ; about twelve o’clock on the Saturday of the murder 1 Knocked off work and started to Union chapel to n Lumberton I apps, boxing nw! attend church; about ten miles fr met Caivin Oxendine and William turpentine; 1 them to go to chureh with me; he said hi tndhand in work and could not spare the time; talked with him some few moments and then went on; that was uf three o'clock on turday of the murder. TESTIMONY OF MARIA WATSON ly name 1s Maria Watson; I live with Peacock, at Lumberton; I cook for him; I nt into the woods about twelve o'clock on Satur- day and saw Calvin Oxendine at work; I talked with him; he had no one with him, at least I saw no one; could not swear there Was no one, but | didn’t see them; I live in the turpentine, and It is ade b nghter.) TESTIMONY OF JOHN NASI (colored).—1 am jailor in Wilmington; have had John Diall and Calvin Oxendine in my custody for a Jong time; it was impossible that they should have had any Conversation; one was up stairs, on the eastern side, and the’ other down stairs, on the western side, confined; the walls are very thick, and I never allowed them to take exercise at the same time in the Jail yard; the night the others es- ped through the hole Calvin might have escaped also had he wished; f found him nex asleep in his ceil and the others gone. MONY OF SOL NASI (colored) —1 was in the prison at one time in White. ville, in Cokumbus county, while Dial land were confined there; heard Dial Was put up to turn State's evidence, known that fh would not © done TESTIMONY OF HUGH J. STRICKLAND. Tam from the Workhouse; L was put there fo ne a pair of stegrs and had some diniculty about some hogs; knew John Diall in the jail at Whiteville: he told ine positively that Calvin Ox: dine was not with them the night they murde! King; said he was sorry nad tied on € he Was persuaded to tim State's evidence not know he would be kept so long. EVIDENOR TO CHARACT ‘The last witness was a Captain Me spectable gentleman of Richmond cow had known Calvin Oxendine all his life srown up together; had wor! him when a boy house bears a better name nd did county, M Court on behalf of Oxendine nd there were few ai Mr. Norman then. spok He MeLean. M twice fellow man, and through all th hours did time the lights (candies) ti THE MOTHER OF stand—not sit—beside him. At one ovclock in the morning the jury retir Still sat the entire Cour another—yet anothe heartheats of that folly still and sil NDINE You migh tire assemb 80 still—so nse, Whitt for that poor, wear *s sake— NOT GUILTY.” Then quietly the crowd dispersed—out into the chill morning air—all silent and thankful. 1 think there was not one in that er As I write this Lse boat that is to bear him away, MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Wad that did not rejoice. Mackaye at the Brooklyn Academy of asic. On Tuesday night the imiabitants of Brooklyn will ing good {to present on aldi? and *Mar- we,” in which he played during this season at the unde. | ellence of Mr, Mackaye’s support which he riswold, and we would advise those who have not had the pleasure r or dd to visit’ the Academy of | be adforded an excellent opportunity of s acting, a8 Mr. Mackaye has resolv me night the two plays James. We have al sided of the ptort the distinguished receives. from his pupil, Miss sady spoken in 1 of being present at the performance of eith both the plays annout Music on Tuesday night. Rustlings fro the Parisian Infant week at Tony Pastor's, Miss Jennie Carroll has a benefit at the Park, pklyn, to-morrow night. orge Clarke and C| Fifth Avenue Theatre next season. Madame Arabella Goddard and Mile Uma Di Murska will arrive in this city before fall. the Wings. the A imatinge of “Article 47" for the benefit of the Foundting Asylum, will be given at the Fifth Ave- nue Theatre on Wednesday next. Mr. Augustin Daly bas taken a long lease of the wnd will commence the next nated fabry comic opera, nd Opera Hous ‘on with the winter in f Miss Clar se a; Drury La honors With tjens during the season. Pro al Gleamings. Theatre, Albany, N.Y. Lucky man, Johnson and Powers, the song and da open at Stetson's, Boston, on April 22, weeks. Carol ing town management, Lillie Eldridge opens in Pitisburg, at the new Opera House, on April 24, and Academy of Music, Chicago, May 13. Colonel T. Allston Brown has engaged Sheridan and Mack for San F neisco, They will start over- land on the 20th inst. M. W. LeMngweil has heen se for two Richings Bernard plays in the of Pittsburg next week, nuder E round AMES. ared by Colonel Krown to open at Fox's American Theatre, Pll delphia, April 22, for two weeks. M. 0. Reardon, the tumbleronicon performer, sailed trom Liverpool April aid Will be due here on the Johnny Allen and Litt company, play at the Acader next week and then regions. Little Nell starts for alton Islands € in May, to be gee her intention to goto danaic¢ Zealand. James Word plays a star engagement at the Na al Theatre, Cincinnati, Ohio, commencing in “Phrough by Daylight,” on April 29, He opens in wo, at the Academy of Music, duty 1. Farbish & Witton, managers of the travelling with “Divorce,” who have met with se evesa the past three months, go through New England all next week, and open in Montreal April 20, for one week, John P. Smith retires from the dramatic prot sion at the close of the present season, and in. co: junetion with another well known showman man- ‘ages a large English opera troupe now organizing, with Thomas Allyn as general advertiser, Simmons & Siocum'’s Minstrels have been se- cured for San Francisco, and will start overland carly in May, to appear at the Alhambra Theatre, Colonel Brown Is arranging a route through the West and for this city for the Emerson Minstrels during the ten weeks engagement there of the Sugnone & Slocum party, Jonal Inve wk, with a dra of Music, Pittshy Poa tour through the in the West India e SiN months, It is and thence to New ‘ he kept a dog at that time; he came home Wednes- THE SOPER MURDER CASE day night; we took a newspaper at our house J) le then; he got back from Al. Norris’ the middle of ++ The Mystery The Perpetrator of Two Mur- | «vate: have taised fax, but dont. tink we ders in Custody. How We Killed His Victims: Ae asa A and Shoots the Other. Petes Te seat utntenitan et arcane Gaus | day, and the clerk of the weather was even more | Kinosron, N. Y., April 12, 187 ‘The examination of Hiram Sluyter, charged with | to Becker’s to wor the murder of Walter Soper in 1869 and with poi- | late as five o'clock when I called him; it was just | indulgenc soning Mrs. Ann Davis last month, was finished to- | he was asleep when I went in thi day at Port Ewen, Ulster county. The testimony | him by name once and he woke up and then got up | From nos taken was of a most damaging character and es- | 20d went to his work; he left without breakfast; | sented a perfect kaleidoscope of color and style in | lit for revealing this deep and | may have laid an hour after T went to bed before | Mt many of the belles to diseard som place before Justices Wheeler and Niece at Port | time; Sope He testitie pw who shot him; there was nO | that examination and we reacl probability of his shooting himself; he and I had been | dark; when Hiram and I got hon sorting apples at the cider house till after twelve | 2t all’ about what had taken place; Tdon’t think we o’clock that night: then we went into the house and 1 went to bed; he went to the door, and then came | saw back and told me he heard he satd he would put on his shoe see what was the m him till Tsaw him dead; he had one dog and Thad | {f one; I lived in the same house with him; I got | low, so that asleep shortly after 1 went to bed and awoke about | the room; @ person standing at the window, three o'clock; Tfound his ght still burning got up, and he was not in bed; his shoes were gone; | in our house ; Williain'Smith and wife, William Davis | CU#e%) and having detached designs of leaves scat~ I told my wife; we then both went out and, DIRECTED BY THE DOG, 1 along the fence, amination—Al! the family had retired on | bought them at Jolny Larkin's; there has never | Dut usually the —underskirt i# of silk, been any arsenic about the house that 1 know of; | either of the same shade or slightly darker, with an | atter; that is the last Isaw of | to Hiram that night; | am sure that I did not For th <t_way in dis worjé to live, I tell ye. (Great found him lying de: the night Soper was shot; there were in the house that night V is my wife, and 1 own: they we then four and two y respectively; I did not see Soper when he went | frequently on each — othe ont; 1 don’t think he took a gun with him; there | Mareh Wiliam — Davis — ¢ morning | Was but one gun in the house; my wife and T found | made him; it was between thre morning: he lay about one hundred yards from the | got them: Billy would have been kept so long he WeTehoite Blak Arn, Where Soper had started 8 the house; the little dog went out | and his wife were not there then; back from the barn, we went to the T know the pr . Hiram Shayte Ivin: said | Lknew Walter Soper, deceased, in his life- | bin to go home; bnt after sroods, notice hear of his death till the HE SAW THE AVG the morning he was found | he would not go; Soper was shot I e who it was, I knew it was’ Shuyte| heard his dog bark; the next morning some o| 's came to my house; m0 un killany cows the night by ed and played with and said, “No gentleman in this an Calving he has a character that any man might be proud of in his from Sluyte HIRAM SAID TIE TAD SHOT A MA den Bellamy them rose and addressed the ade a strong es when he con- for some time in replys then Colonel French, for the defence, and then the great Robeson ‘Attorney, Neal Archio heen newed: still they pleaded for the life of a long, weary Was killed; my wife told me of it first; about three | Jumped up and felt of her faci months after the death of Soper, as T was returning home from my work at M watering tough below Hoit’s place, the prisoner | and joked after | got back f 1 to him “About your Shooting Sope two dogs on me; Tw: One hour slipped away— almost hear.the We nt. At last, af ten minutes to n the morning, the Jury returned, Then all was rdict ¥ God be thanked, und we nd returned and | in then [ shot’ hin Joaded any gun FOUND HIM DEAD ENOUG Slnyter has told ine this ten times 1 was afraid to tell this before, bec: as much danger now as would have been I will not be there so much now; on | Grand Jury, h last prisoner was at my house; | bout the | HIRAM, YOU HAVE ou have Oxendine on his way to the | and 1 believ You did not sce me kill Soper, and if you did ause she snutte that she could he wanted to know shooting Sop: he did not deny it, be examination Soper about three month m, the nform worse than that against him; | getion in the re what it w Twas presen’ 1 accused him of poisoning my wife; I believe he did poison her. Margaret Wiest was next called, and testified a follows :—I live in the town of Ei Shiyter, the prisone! tataconvers: Yavis about the prisoner say to 1 “? Davis said, “What do you think Tw Davis said, “1 expect be h of March Jas! heard of the | AVIS, let ‘Troupe appear this DEATH OF OLD SOPER upon you;* arles Fisher are engaged for | anout it; Hiram, haven't you told aid aid Davis, “if 1 had seen you Lwonld have | ealed it a long time yous? that is all} kno’ | talking about it. Roi Curotte,” which has been the sensation of the | did not tell Davis that I thought his This gave rise to an animated discussion hy | has almost enti wife had heen poison and laid ont T said, and look at he Louise Kellogg, the American Nightin- | | gale, sailed on Saturday for Knope to fulfil an ens | qagement as one of Mr. Maplegon's stars in London, this summer, She will divide the a, “What d T said, nything belonging tome, L should | erty should stors ald a jury and have an examina- Davis toid siavter th to having shot | vis and myself w Tony Denier has soll his interest in the Capitol | e present: S re imen, runkenness betwe they had not been drunk and got mad at one | 1! it woutl not have beeg told now, uw Stuyter, Davis and Margaret Wiest aver Wiest then Bill Davis sui mn went home an vight over and said, and we will have this seited vi | ramand L we of poisoning Aunas Davis “DO HIRAM, VOU POISONED tH sie wonld brlige vo ' she would | did nol say Ww come on that terms, Po came to | sub-eommi ma ur your winks i} that was all is spoken there thens Hiv nd F then went home, | BCross-examined— he prisoner lives with me the time Walt) Sop member to have heard of tive sti the next day after h night, as he day; Airam was we Sheard of it; Hiram Reeker had no work for hi night; he did not go COON HUNTING that night; Soper lived someth ross lots; Hir was she was home | mis a single man; nobody else | O, Otrendorfer, Joti A. Strahan | was living with me but my son Aduy ) at home that night; Adam was at Louls | Hiram and for grapes in the fd r we left the how remember whe house; he had a) gun; | 2th ult., short of coal. were there then; he Bout, buy ngt jatel NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. THE SPRING FASHIONS. | the afternoon; can’t tell the hour; he brought the - roceries with him; don’t remember what; then i ii Foo cent to Dubois Rose's, tox a washituly’a mile | A Sanday Stroll on the Avenue~Piety in Silk distant; he left the house and took some tools and ij ‘i ’'s Eye View of the Ma- t Toast | saiane was going there; he got back from Rose's and Bijouterie—A Bird's 8c C y | about sundown; he came in the house, sat down terials and Styles To Be Worn This Sum- leared Up. and ate hls suppers T can’t telt about what time the mer—What We May Expect When ii ATE SUPPER BY CANDLE LIGHT; the Season isin Full Bloom. I was milking when he came back; I have about Many and strong were the exclamations of indig- nation and disappoint have in twelve years; aft some books and read, and PLAYED A LITTLE ON THE FIDDLE: on Easter Sunday, when rain of the most uncom- ~ i he went to bed between eight and nine o'clock; I know, because that was his bedtime, and [looked | Promising character came down, as if on purpose to at the clock and saw it was that tine when he went | Keep back the new spring toilets designed for supper Hirant took bed; TP was born in this country; [can’t talk not talk it; he can understand it. On | obstinate in his determination to allow no Easter - this Thursday night Hiram slept in a bedroom on | fashions te grace the churches, Yesterday he re- | lented, and permitted Old Sol to stile benignantly | venue, although he took care fo modify bis | the ground floor; I slept in the room T live tn; I got up before daytight Friday morning to call him to go. can’t say whether it was as | on the by a genuine biustering March wind, getting light a little; I found him in the bedroom; | Which had none of the balmy April breeze about it. room; I called there are three windows in the” room in tablished conclusively the guilt of the acensed. The | which he slept; one of the windows is | te ever-shifting toilets that constantly passed and: | investigation was ably condu prosecution by District Attorney Fowler, who is de- | Could get in and out if he tried; T can’t say that i mindful of snow dvifis in the West to pet serving of great cr mysterious case, The following are the proceedings which took | Tee! ted on the part of the | of such a height from the ground that a person | repassed, The breeze was rather too fresh and re did not get up that night and go out of his room going to sleep; don’t thing Llay two hours; don’t | Of their winter wraps, but afew were determined leet if 1 woke up that night or not; can’t re- | to force an acknowldgment that the season for ember " member if there was tow in our house at that | ghiing toilets had arrived, and accor TWO OFFI very few, spring costumes have newspapers; don’t know that they found any tow; ; AAS ital anaes Bee ‘ von-in-law of the mur- | they found ho ghot that Lknow of Lsuppose they | #8 yetmade their appearance upon our prome- as follows:—I reside in | found guns; the gun he used was kept in the room | nades, Ladies still cling to their furs and wintry them aside, yet loth to do South; it was bi ht home by one of my boys; on the 2th of September, 1869; he | after the shooting of Soper there was an examina. | 80 Unt Old Sol shall have gained a decided vie- Was shot at night on his own premises: he went | tion held at Al, Norris’; | was a witness eT did not | tory over wild Boreas and treacherous Jupiter out of the house between twelve and one o'clock at | SWear then that there were no guns in my house; I | Pluvius, who have thus far bravely m: night; I do not ki ntained alm think L was there twie ; Hiram left with me from re ed home before thelr supremac we did not talk | nacs. spite of all the laws of A BRIEF GLANCE AT THE STYLES talked at all about the shooting Of Soper; 1 don't | jikely to prevail this season, as she think we talked in a whisper when we got home; I | the avenue yesterday, 4 the season advances, will be interesting to our fair ppeared on p AT THE BAR! papers On Ea eS e out of pk and go out and | can’t talk Dutch; € swear that Edid not talk Daten | Yor during the sumrmer will not be out of plac present costumes en cach that night after the examina- | rigueur; not the black ones which of the room where [sleep are person standing outside can look in re are de whisper to 1m, ; the W deservedly popular, but of delicate printemps gray or cacao au lait brown, richly embroid¢ the window down, could hear us talk inan ordinary tone of voice inside; | knew Mrs, Davis; she died and I t intervals over the entire comtunie. and wife, myself and two sons, Hiram and Adam | tered were theres’ Hiram had been tg on the 25th of March he went to Rondout ¢ half a gation of iquor and some flow nd bough! he said he and soft, the quality exquisitely fine and two stnall chtidyen of my | the month of March; he has no use for arsenie | flounce and sprays ornamenting the spaces be- sof age | #bout the house nor in the business of making bas- | tween the piaits. For these costumes tiie Kets; Mrs, Davis and I were intimate; we called | polonaise has entirely superseded the jacket snd me over. to our | OVerskirt, and the Watteru style is pret house to have a couple of baskets | tess a short cupe is added. with him: this was about | beautiful tints imaginable—tints rather than barn, just back of the barn; we left him lying there ; three orclack, Biter Hiram had been to Ron- | colors, for the grays are al tinged with) brown and and made report’ to James ; dout sked him why he did not ask Mrs. Davis: . wns ray: yreens shaded w r neighbors; Tsent my wife to | over: then he went over and asked her and she the browns with gray; the greens shaded with | gold or blue or gray, reminding one of the 2 4 dresses worn more than a quarter of a century this v about three P. M.; 0 dr : Smith | ago by our worthy grandmothers. tn fact, we have Billy stayed, but | heard that one of the leading fring here sent out 1d We followed him and found | Mrs. Davis went back home; about Sever o'clock | as samples of colors for their silks of this season she came back; then Smith and his wife e there; | es of dresses worn at that period. These lovely who | Smith was @ little tight when he « mith | hues, hitherto unatt excepting in hig! Was on her way home, and she he talk priced faille and s neigh: | ingin onr house, end so she stopped and wauted | de soi nd wot a | came back and took a avin st tine; SHE L n the fi i hn, are Dow shown in poult | nd many of them are repea Diy in foulard, which has proved in quulit we al «in other thy im- and is likely to regain its good niti’s little Son was there too; | name and reputation, whicti have been greatly rd a | the liquor Hiram had lasted til about eleven | hazarded by the intvoduction during the past o'clock; at about eleven o'clock Mrs. Smith, her | seasons of iniserable, sleazy goods, not worth pu son and myself went to Norris’ and got another half | chasing or making up, Which were’ sold as genuine gallon of Yum; we got back home about one o'clock ; | foulards, | Mrs. Davis had one drink of tl Sintth and | Lwent to bed; Mrs. Davis sat in a chair by my bed- | such | side; Hiraan laid on the floc mith and Davis | crush easily, and, more | w | wire 1 NDIA FOULARNS, , re; he said on, Will neither f “et most of them SAT UP BY THR JUG ALL NIGH washed lik linary | between five and six o'clock I heard Smith say to | possible to wear the wife is 3) then 1 | color ither plain and hands, tingué travelling costumes, and are especialiy de AND THEY WERE COLD; y, matil th oner the 1 next mort Xt day after Davis, “Billy, } believe your Cummings’, ni m Norris? 3 they we she was not | lady may this be always attired in an pall prety ate manner withont additional trouble, uve bad | So drunk but she could tal liram, the he asked What. it Was; I told hi tight when we got back with the rum; Mrs. Smith | Satin-striped foulards will be worn in “Dolly Va * he said, “We comld feel what she had drank; 1 cant tell how | den” designs for overdresses, and some of tem a few chickens and Soper sot | often Td as | Very lovely, the satin stripe giving additional brit fraid T would be bit b MY INESS 5 lianey to the color of the flowers, fioral designs Soper followed me; [told Soper to go back | Ldid not drink adrop thi me from Norris’; 1 | being the most popular. In faet, the real “Dolly him: the old man said tome, | don't y I was sober, | Varden” desigus are fowers in vatural W'S On m,’ and kept setting the dogs on; | Redirect examination—The liquor Hiram brought | blaek or dark brown ground; but all figured goods skept ina jug: it was poured out of a jug nd We all Krank out of one tumbler. amination—I in not al the | erat nd we a ne when I went to Norris’; some | with the style before the season is ever. Neverthe use || drank water with their whiskey and some did not. | less, : Tithe life of my wife: Tam | From this evidence the prisoner was committed IP 1S VERY BECOMING TO MANY, to the Kingston Jail to await the action of the | provided no pronoucée colors or ¢ | and it is retained for housewe ‘There are cheap materi e now known | Iready becoming threadbar it on to the woods and from constant reit drunk and | liquor was all ns path of my wife; I said, REFORMERS, TO THE RESCUE! | KILLED SOPER, i my wife? he said, | Not | The Committee of § | naise. ty Calling Upon |, Thes e are very pretentiously 1; she replied to him i for tine lingerie, Fully alive to the limportance of securing coneant ne batiste, which will be so fashionably worn ky jeving that this can be best accomplished thro: | for suits this season, is sh ssociation pledged to no political party, but including | dark 6cru color, The prettiest: styles hay anise he could not. alleitizens who desire to maintain good yovernment, we | satin stripes, or polka dots of white, | Suite ner told me he had shot | the undersigned, agree to torm such an association and | goods are Intended as a change from the li ster Soper was shot; 1 | invite all oun Telowc in ap wisteli aim aeoiane | costumes which have for so long retained th is bad talk al taken in compliance with the. su jirelmen’ | prestige, but for which no eptable sub said about | and bet paversation; | an it? Lsaid, “About your shooting ittee oF ty, under the supervision of this asso- | tute has as yet been offered, waa 2 | a ne thing between the ordin 2 TOLD MP HOW TP WAS DON ROBERT RENNEDS, ~~ ORK AD linen Linen chambray is a pure linen | HENRY CLE i 0. ZOLLIBKOFE! goods, heavy and substantial, which will also make | serviceable travelling costumes and suits for coun try wear, cee mn ene . sno SUMMER MATERIALS. new wash mater soft, twilled and som is known as “Japane V STRATA, WV opis; Koow 1 1 know Wm. it resembling satin jew, piqué, itis without gloss, w liy, do you say I poisoned | fs Bey, HENRY CL. | and comes in whire and bail, put up in boxes will “Yes, Lsay so; prisoner | J. BUNDY, KOSWE. the platted trimming: My and wecou. uid poison your wite | BRYAN LAWRENCE W.M. VE panied by an illustration of th design of ‘Ause she W JAMES W. GE RD, Wihd | the eostum s going | IX Wil j | OSWALD OTT » PATRI | White suits promise to be as fashion: da el tit : ever this season, Many of the tandsom tien die MHOW. A large majority of the signers of this call met on | yienly trimmed with embroidery, i mos have told her | Saturday evening at the Pith Avenue Hotel, Gen- | wrotght directly on the maierial itself. These you shot Walt | eral Jolin A, Dix being elected Chairman. Rosweil | However, are me specially intended for iow drunk and | = ; | Wear, and the only or Shuyter id, It don't | D. Hatch was appointed Secretary and read the call, | with them are coquettish be nee yuat of have | which was approved, color, Which are placed on the see ome do its? | Mr, Foney moved that a committee of three be | {onts,on the back, between the shoniders, and looping the tunique, fancy for bows a SCV aI ent Singias, | appointed by the Chair to report resolutions, and | gyserva We feta fa suits of 3 in htet, diterence what"T have told | an executive committee of ten to carry into effect | many of the styles derive much of their chic from about it; they continued | the views of the association concerning the tmine- the disposition of them, White suits for street I was at the house when Mrs, | Mitte enrolment of all voters in favor of reform. iy worn as ones are “What avis said, * told me t v ral ide in much the same style as to gar eas they were last season, but The polonaise ely displaced the Jacket and over is added. oley, HL when Thad her washed | Megsrg, Stebbins, ard, Jones, lly, she is your wi : | Gre © not quite as heavy as heretofoy is Bailey, Stern and others, Ail conceded the import- | and have stualler square meshes, To avoid the ave TDOkINO teat caeait | wuce of organizing and securing an enrolment in | Weight of the extra grenadine skirt the garniture is Assembly districts in the city, but some of | sewed directly on a silk one, and the costume is ers thought that the Committee of Sev- | completed by a polonaise, without lining, worn ke the matter up and carry it into | over a high’ silk waist with sleeves. The armur effect, or. at least, should endorse and support the | grenadines, woven in a pattern like the armur i he hud cone | Wovenent. ‘The motion prevailed, however, and | silks, are preferred by many to those with the Wuyter’s mother, Da- | the committee reported resolutions, which, after | square canvas meshes. Handsome snits are le iytev did not deny | amendment by Messrs, Bundy and Bailey, were | of grenadine, with satin. stripes of varions widths, Soper; 1 told | adopted unanimousiy, as follow (the wide used for the skirt and the narrow fe n them, and if | tin compl ihe overd le same goods wil be much of Hever used for polonaises over sik: skirts and is very ef ye ctive. ‘These wre all black 5 hy vn sume pi Narninatry fess fective. ‘These Ui black; but, for the same pur you think was the | all the ‘Ldon’t know, but ifshe | the sp Soper his sii mother of the prisoner, was |) party. reli pose, polonaises to he used with black or colored prisoner, and testified as fole | jovi, and w silk Skirts are colored grenadines, stripes of solid on ti ion spoken of by | Resolved | color, alternating. with others of gray chinty, rmber the conver- | ehant “Dolly Varden” designs, Mousseline soie, a si to Hie house of Davis on an muslin, or close, fine ygrenadines, also make lovely overdresses, and gaze de Chambér ble as ever, ig LACE IS A PUREUR FOR TRIMMING, ines Gdve both black and white, and is used in every material y veluble to whieh it can appropriately be adapted, Hlegaut Penipoureite ay Mare oe sik ane fi | suits are trimmed with guipure, it uewtay and | Wiite and unbleached, and the batiste suits ycitht AM nll ten | garnished in the same manner, broad insertions bo ft WM. to will match ornamenting the canique, in addition to the mn wanted | oui the nunesseleeted and tine oF opening the b edging. ‘These insertions are Set in, not on, the Be tine out iu: Davis | fepenrobinent in tour ar five days garinent, as formerty. Yat anid, “EID bring: you ag ae soon ae the enrolment is completed | ‘the “Watteau’® style of overgarment is noticcaliy (shot Soper: Hiri said, | in cach of the twenty-one Assembly districts; and alse a | 2TOWing in favor for all materiais to whieh it Who shall act as delegates tothe General | possibly be adapted. A preity fancy is M x : range the upper part of the p Resolved, That our Exeentive Committee stall have il) ag “to form . Toot caught togettier wil bows. Another style, the “Princess Watteau, srt no candidate for any | Combines the favorite “Wattean back with a pe- . be | collar arrangement of the front nd sides, whieh Hions | imparts the plainness in front and at the sides, op: Which is now considered “stylish. With ¢ ception of garments with the “Watteau ? ites for office must tight-fitting garments are litle used for street ‘and capacity, and possess th wea dd Various ave the designs in grace bors | capes, which have been designed to m | ‘he committee agreed upon the following Exec gel The “Broadway,” the sinph tive Committee of ten, and their report was | short, and gracefully looped on the shoulder t | suMctently hiding the ring breattiy to harrow, sloping shoulders, is deeper and will serve for an inde mt for us with a variety of suits; but the palm must be given «cH. Bailey, to the “fucea,” which is one of the most ful, Henry Clausen, dr. | distingnd novelties The front is quite short, but the bac in long, graceful NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ne np tome and sa is us fashions Davis) opened if f lose iny firain shot Walt old Hirai: Marga- | me over then fie | Billy, you wid, Wedt five, Hee and n distrie AL away 3 nm said, ed A outs) Hie | Commity todo all that may be necessary tocarry out the this association ed, That we will untilhe stipulates in wy { | Will sustain the principles enunciated in “th ler whic pt Seventy wis or Was shot ning oF Soper | Was shot; L heard of it Friday stwoen Thursday and Pri {Isaac Becker's when I day Thursday ; and We wits th Hit king like a mile from | Jenn Foley, Wm. BF. Havemever, was not | Robert B. Roosevelt, Myer Stern, wuitz’s: | Roswell D, Hateh, ' Henry G. Stebbins, IN A SWAMP of Tharsday; after din- nd went to Al, Novri | sashes carelessly knot the fowl | ensemble ¥ ish hood. he got some groceries; 1) The United States ste "4 It can be added to any tight-fitting garment, and her he got any powder and Koy Went, tat ite mer Kansas, six Ways | wit add. additional grace and chic, Noticeable don't know whether he had | from Key West, put into Kingston, Jarmates, ov the | the new designs for basques Is one styled tthe idew for the caqu whieh Is} Velese She is on a surve are two or three guns | pedition in furtherance of i rine oe naed to | isthmus canal. Having rece! Je hag been cogn Nonting; | plive she lest Kingston on We auth, Donna,’ enterprise of an | tish little # us or velvet Which are so ent uttered by ponting lips | He Poisons One | to ved; Lalways look at the clock when I go to | church wear on that day, ‘Then followed Whit Sun- | till nearly fonr o’elock the avenue pre- | was on the qui v% the great tide of I wily came | ‘ERS CAME out in all their new regalia, But they constituted | ‘The first witness called on the part of the prosecu- | to our house after Soper was shot and looked at the | the minority, Fe tion was Walter P. dered man, the town of Esopus; ktiew Walter Soper in his life | Where he slept; one of the guns came from the | garments, longing to lay into leaty exube asi nd also what will appear as | examination at my house | readers, Also, a prospective view of what will be | ed with | garlands heading the fringe which fnishes the |, seription. ‘The promeu | trians, andin the routways devote Rondone that oor sionally the entire suit’ is of cashmere, | ever | of fairy face | howeve wo | y nor an be Wslin, and it is almost im. hose in solid moce make the most dis- | sirable for this purpose when a tour is contem- the | she wag not mber when T went to bed; she talked | plated and only short stoppages are to he made, as | #8, “Where do all the oy ‘bea standin _ssehoor | 1% it without dottir appellation, whieh is ppellation, whieh is | PM ina fair way to be sarfeited ar in the z iS for Varden costumes in patterns consisting of plain goods for the skiri, and ligures for the polo- ied “batiste | Was Tather too cold yeste | attire ‘asso? Jinen is | C#rolled their dinect pr é Match Race on £ al for suminer wear of cottan, | instances | ainents to be worn | eheste of some becoming | shoulders, down the | which the Adieu’ was vtetorious oi the bed Cow Pasture . | and thence to the | ahont ten nities, tif j the way up ie Cow Pasture, when th shook out, and Wind a8 close | Viete } start, though way up the bay, atives Fernando We of the church w ah, is | cannot be proxies to act miceting. The Secre with and there will be of Washing have siinilar me in several cite me this “ * 4 « douties | presick vd the ecessary sup- | effectively worn with sik suits. It i yeUP | vroasted in font, wud the back forms au entirely | che chureh, new modification of the favorite postition. It fa. equally appropriate for other matertais and makes a most charming house basque for use with demt-train skirt. If, as Lamartine says, ‘to beautiful is to reign,” every lady may be a ret queen this season ff personal adornment wil make any one beautiful; for never were more beautiful goods or desfyns to make them up iit offered for their suffrages. It is to be hoped that winter will now relax his grasp on the sceptre by which he has so long lorded it in our thoroughfares, and that the Avenue will, on each recurring Sunday, be brilliant with the new styles and Is of Which we have spoken, and the grea a of which have not as yet made their app nee in public, ‘Then there will be from Deimonico's to f second street a procession Om Sunday afternoons to dazzle and delight the femi« nine eye and to draw even the opposite sex to the: fashionable thoroughfare to admire and meditate upon the tmany and wonderful ways devised te adorn the female form divine, SUNDAY IN THE CENTRAL PARK. . Who Were There and How They Spent t Day—A Pleasant Prospect—In Lentus Umbra. ‘The first Sunday in spring! Of course everybody re for enjoyment, and naturally nanity lowed toward the Cens tral Park—the lungs of this great metropolis. A prettier prospect could not have been presented ta the public view than that of the multitude taking its airing for the first time since chill winter, manted the surface of earth in a robe of sparkling, snow. Yesterday everything presented a pe | ie April showers had drawn into ne cn turf; the tree twigs, germin ance, bravely withstood the timit iis of the western winds that fushed the bonny appearani life the frost cheeks of fair demoiselles while it simultaneously: swept their petticoats into ¢ SRPISTIO CONFUSION. Above a cleay sky—blne, soft and mellow—spangled here and there with deeting wisps of clouds, made | roseate by the ruddy sun. Acro the broad ave- | nues, girt on either side by growing trees, whose branches promise « shade in which Tityrus himself, would have loved (o bask while practising sonatas on his oaten reed. tainly, the trees have not as yet burst forth into bloom, but there are many’ evergre daney, reli hs, which, retaining their pristine ver- » the sombre monotony of the bands of Aevoss the Mall tay PAPPLED SHADOW and, where the branches of the trees did not inter- vene, shin! javelin shafts of sunlight pierced their and fell upon fairy forms too beautiful for dew le wits tilled with pedes= to those who sso sticient of tiis workl’s wealth to aequive or hire an equine quadruped might be seen a wonderful munber of | bespurred personages. ‘the centre of attraction, hows wis the great lake. Down the hundred and one steps which lead to its verge trouped many as ow daintily dressed damsels, Whose trim gai peeped in- and out of their pret. fallen leay tily embroidered petticoats like sly little mi At the jt these stirs lies the lake, glisten: like a burnished silver salver in the tierce glare of the noonday sin. Upon its sheeny bosom float a feet of tiny eratt, some PREIGHPED WITH PAIR CARGOES others loaded down, gunwale-deep cls amd flesh po AS a ormle, ishionable woman carefully avons sses dveadfully. wtuvaction at the nd men and cbil- witness the antics ubhappy animals cages that the designa he nological Department, There was w lively row there yesterday, a connubial strife that aftorded the gr { satisfeerion to the bystanders. Mr. hyena differed in opition with his better half int relation to the divisibility of a toothsome bone. A lively vough and tumble ensued, and if the inhuman — keeper—who, the by, must be oa disciple of Berch’s—hade only — forhorne — introducing — his pitehfork the oft-nooted point as to the superiority of the feline sexes might have been decided. Very pleas- ant to stroll under the trees—though leatless at present—the very idea of lying upon a grassy knolk suggests sybaritic ideas, the reewbans su tegiind fagi (hat Tityrus teed so well to love, Up and down the Mall troop A HPTEROGE re gentler and with silks, J aq The menageric is Park, Young men 4 dren unite in’ the and manoetiver mfined ii Comunission US TARONG, jadies, shobs and their Ubabies ad libitum. One ts tneined to » infants come from i as, in the Central Park he gazes upon the, + of staal fry that fit past, ‘Truly, the Nation will he well represented in| the neXt generation—especially in Congress; for haven't those youngsters got limps! A inonument in the rk, lately but [litle noticed, now is all-observed, nd scarce a man, or the semblance of one, passes Nis chapean willingly or invelun- It is that of ope Who has passed from earth, ho has leit hehind hima name that will live Hi time in connection with his valnable discoveries; the figure is that of Professor Mov: At the foot of the steps is the fountain, at I¢ What used to be tie “lunpid jet? that in the faces of wanlerers as they saunter the margin of the basin. "Tis pretty to w rounded streamiets sparkling in the sun, sooner the water is turned on and th KUDE, DRUUNCAL, Re and like mementoes of Stonchenge in the basin are swaiied in Croton, the better. It ty to make boating There sisters, tar bat it hed spray taroond iy the and the th cm see it you ¢ we - | * ss cloth, although ‘they are in ity si an. | thoroughly enjoyable, y many of the sweeé : TENE nee ite. See ert on Yh spun ot All Reformers to Enroll Antie | finished cambric, ‘Tie French Spatite eaten | Syrens who visited: ti entrusted — their about five weeks ago prisoner was at my Tammany Side. mixture of linen and wool, r is ene | i jous persons the care of the mundane he told my. wife that he would fear to eat The following important call explains itself:— | lirely of linen, unbleached, and sheer, and is mue Charon who ty ply the Ay Hop | the treeenshadowed pool A prettier — sight tain that the Park presented can hardly he conceived, for every. one was in holiday the ladies seeming to have preserved theit astey bonnets and habliainents for the occasion, children were in eestacies; goat races were at cmb, and ruddy-faced youngsters looked a blithe and happy as te sweet-noted songsters that he genial san fron ling trees. YACHTING. : (he topmost bran of the by hester Bay Between Sloop Yachts Peerless and Adien=s «© Former Wins—An Exciting Cons te Bosvon, April 14, 1872. aptain Bibber, and Adieu, Captain Macomber, both belonging to the ‘The sloop yachis Peerless, South Boston Yacht Chub, and about equally matched as to sailing qualities, had another triat ye: jay aileruoon over the Long Course in Dor- Bay, fov the usual purse of $100 side. On Fast Day tiv yechts sailed against each other, in but it was even in ther 4 Saturday by a good hon- i defeat for the hitter, A stakeboat was moved “house on South Boston Point, from 1 the start made; and the sailing course ound hee buoy, leaving it on the rt ha ack and up to and aroun » leaving Ion the starboard, ling point—a distance of The Peerless was the frst lo get away, starting at n wis pats! Uhice otclock, the Adlon filling suils about five seconds lat Goth yachts rriel reefs til passing the stakeboat on were Niele sels hugged the ach Working its best for ntained the lead from the ack nothing t ast of wher in Led ing the stake on her 1° rounded Cow Pasture buoy Adieu followed three miuntes later. ty. The nnding Seu ud and the rhe “down home most beautifull ond | Tath at 8m. 308., three mine lites and itty seco ai of her autagonist. The ling thine of the vietor was Th. a8m. and 15s. ‘The Weather Was exhiltraling, with a fresh breeze trons The west-sontinwest, aid tie race Was well enjoyed tw those who we sed | ‘THE DEAD ELECTRICIAN, Moree Me al Celebras Hington. SGTON, Apri The prepavations (0 memorial serviees in ye Morse are complete. honor of the jale Pre un | ‘The speakers are Senator Parterson and Represent 1, Garideld, Cox, Voorhees and Banks. Rev. De. Adams, of New York, pastor he Professor attended in or, and Dr. Wheel that city, will open with pray the pastor of the church whieh the deceased at? tend | Poughkeepsie, will prononace the benes dict The Pr nt and Vice President, the and other prominent oMetals The Governors of States who in person have designated « Viee Presidents of tho ry ol the Navy has compiled: tion formusic by tye Marine Band, i music by the Chora! Society Numerous letters and teiograms ved, sume of them stating that swillle heal on Tuesday evening ages of te Cu ve been lavite appile I Meeting at Poughkeepsie. POUGARREPSIB, April 14, 1872 neements ave in progress for a large Morse ng in the Presbyterian chareh in ty on TMoslay evening. Mayor Kastman wit sand Hie telegraph wires are to be led inte