E etwas D 1 I 1 TD R alis A alls lis tv A jw V I 1 le IN them the middle middie g ages f ji jn n eulo Euro peto IT e i t to mur der byl polson sathit it wa impossible 1 I the stomach ed the existence of the deadly drug or compound by KS any then iben known to the chemist reached a perfect mania and if various writers and historians tel tei tellitha lithe the tru e fearful art we 1 A similar mania seems TA ubin uain S aik oik abe developing itself in this country the detalia details of which h pas V two awo or three weeks the public mind hab has been shock shocked edwIth with the horrible recital of oti thel ther poisoning by mrs airs sherman of i birmingham conn cond of same eight or ten individuals her husbands and ail all their lilwid anid arid her dh children idren laren arid before there has been tim time 0 dorthis for this horror to be term tern pora rily forgotten another block almost 1 as intense and very similar in aa character facter comes from baltimore ahe the he suspected criminal this time be being ing it iti As lavaida iss laa said baid aida alda a lady by birth education and social position and among those whom bhe she is accused of having killed and ati attempted i 1 to kill hill are her husband bon eon aund arid daughter the name of this woman is mrs Whar wharton ton fon filand and previous 10 to lo h her committal atal to prison to await her t rial trial she moved ved io in the tho very highest cirel cirei circles 6 0 of the city in which she resides daring darlng during baring the reli rely rebellion ellion iler ilen lier her husband bep iee brevet brevee col CA harry W Whar wha wharton r ton fon paymaster of the maryland arp arf department of the U S forces was wag wad stai ita i I 1 tinned Baltimore lil in and resided there until he died in 1867 his death was wab sudden and attended with very peculiar symptoms but on account of the high standing of the parties no suspicion of foul play was entertained the family of the deceased consisted of wife son and daughter the son major fl W wharton being belog also an officer i in the army at the time of his father fathers a death deuth he was twenty seven years of jage ag eind and shortly after that melancholy event he left the army and went to live with his mother and bister sister at baltimore something like sixteen months ago be he died suddenly his symptoms being similar to those attending the death of his father A very short time his bis decease he insured his life for and having no heirs the benefits arising from that transaction went to his mother each time her hou house hoube so was visited by death mrs wharton evinced the most lih intense tense grief and the there re still being no of foul play she contin continued tied to move in and enjoy the friendship of her upper class acquaintances t tu two months afteu the death of young Mh wharton arton his sister aged twenty three efell ill ili and lingered for a long iong time in n a critical state but butr ultimately recovered itji it Is J now said sald bk b those best beat able abid of f judging that hersy herby her symptoms m atoms were those of poison among the very anti inti intimate I 1 mate friends of colonel wharton and his family was general william scott ketchum formerly a distinguished army officer but on the retired list at the time of the coi Col colonels oneia onelA death the intimacy between the whartons Wh artons and giener beneral al ketchum continued until the d death eath 6 of f the latter which took place very I 1 suddenly at the house of mrs wharton on the of last month shortly before ethe ithe general had lent mrs wharton fl 2600 for which she eave gave ave avo him t r er note and four days before his death b he b arrived from washington in baltimore ton on a visit to the whartons Wh artons and it is believed C lieveld for the purpose of collecting acting tho th i amount of the note he held two tio days after ute chis his arrival he was taken beri seri seriously busly it lii ill III and two days aften after that although under skillful medical tte atme he died hib his funeral took place la 11 at washington sh ington on the soth aoth uit Ps still t 1 1 tot fot of foul play on the part of mra mrs NV does have afisha in the tho of any I 1 but at length came the straw that broke the camels camello back and stayed stay ed the murderous hand of this wretchedly picked kicked wicked woman among the regular visitors to her house was eugene son 1 of col van ness and one evening while gen ketchum lay sick he be visited the whartons Wh artons there being several other visitors there at the time 1 mra irs W handed banded baer beer to her guests which she said contained gentian they all partook an d shortly after van ness iwa ewas staken taken so ill III that a medical man had bobs tobb to bs called in who declared him too bad to be moved amick A milk punch was prescribed and administered and at the bottom of the cup a white sediment wah wag noticed by some one present this was commented upon when mrs wharton sald sald said it was only white sugar A relative of the blek bleh man tasted it ft and y j found it unpleasant and when a fitting this sediment as removed from the cap c and waki wab was subsequent subsequently ly p placed alicd in 16 ft h aph i N chem chemist at w who h 0 tin in a day a y I 1 pr two pr bounced it tartar em emetic ic jy M this circumstance in connect connection ibn with the sudden death of general Ret ket ketchum Ketchu chuM mj then lying nn unburied u n b buried fa washington aroused strong suspicion ot 0 and altai une toe contents bf hib his stomach were ife ana lysed lysek ep of clr em id reaton reafa mrs amda aHda hee fee has kas bince since uge uce b een d J curee ediff committed por for OT trial triai ria T ddn on abe he capital charge abid and it 11 limaye feared det der adson dul ei ld pt poison fatuch a ks apphia peg reg reads ds anore mor epke eUke tile the cre stored brain of a man inan cist odthe moat sombre school than thin truth and yett here bere scenes to be little reason renson to doubt that in each of cheso thes cases a murder most foul has been per pet rated but what motive if any could hav have prompted the suspected taUr deress L to commit such a series of atrocities it is impossible to imagine she was surrounded with affluence comfort and refinement before her husbands death and it iq isaid bald sald was lefta leftin good circumstances by him she t la described abed as being unusually attractive nn and graceful arnd arid a data nata in manners mann 0 irs ire appearance apfei IT and conversation a perfect ladys 40 haq moved with a charac character tei abo aboya yel I 1 roach irl ill id tri pie hd very highest boo SOO society 61 in galt talt baltimore altamore imore 1 andaas and has been a reg neg regular jalar falar attendant andrie and member aber of the epig epli Rl copal church the character and course af f such a woman present presents some bomb st strange iange ano nuo anomalies malles but however willing charity m may sy be to hide her ber sins it seems scarcely possible in the light of present developments that thab they can be concealed bic Dic digrezia rezia borgia daughter of pope alexander VI who lived four cen con conturo centuries turi tUrl ago has the unenviable r reputation of having been queen among woman prisoners poison ers in her downor any subsequent subs equen t age but it is not unlikely that some mental monstrosity of the feminine gender genden in thi country will yet deprive her hen of fhe he tearful fearful preeminence pre pie eminence uhl ihl story atory arid public opinion have bave ave so I 1 loag 0 pg accorded corded ile ECe her whether Inthe in the vart warl various ons one migrations ions lons of t h J e uple aple of th the e nation of europe ur eph Q her er descendants or dr some bome bomhof of the c collateral 0 or I 1 ameral 1 branches b xan ches cheb of the family have found the new mew world and true instincts aud arid traditions of heir their race are re enacts enacting ng their vile crimes it is hard to tell but I 1 at any rate fidei tbt fadd of as prisoners polso poison ners ers seems beems lna ans in a fair way to be meil Vell eclipsed ped A of a highly in teres leres character to those who who participated therein wah was was held at paris karls ky on the uit namely the annual reunion of the veterans of fhe the he war of 1812 the number present resent was seventy two among whom were representatives of about eiver elver every battle battie fought the gallant galiant lold fellows formed in procession at the bourbon house whence preceded by a band of music they marched har mar chill chili to the court house the ceremonies consisted of bf prayer speeches and the thet I 1 i election of officers and other ther b business siness transactions the law F passed U by congress last february granting pensions to the 1812 except those who had shown bhan sympathy with or nartica narti cl in the late rebellion 1 ais sis als alloi to the thie widows of all soldiers of 1812 who were ma married aried prior aloi to the time nie die of enlistment was commented upon in n iio ilo 0 favorable term terms e alidas d denounced in a speech by general gedel al Coomb Coombs sand land a resolution was petitioning congress to remove remove thep tha clause clauses or n f the mb act by t extending I 1 its hene pene benedits benefits nita fita tta ten tea mothe veterans of tha eliat w ar now living a and d to the widows of ay all ali deceased ir irrespective r of the time of enlistment the company returned in procession to the durbon bourbon JB house and partook of a splendid dinnen dinner provided ferth for them em by the city council after ofte which the hon garret davis delivered A very elo eio eloquent and touching address during duning his lla ila jre re marka the honorable gentleman t took ook ool occasion to denounce 1 the aop ace of congress referred to above most of those present were residents of kentucky there being some few also aiso from indiana and Illi illinois nolo their ages ranged from seventy to ninety yearb years the youngest man present being seventy and the oldest ninety the former being ung mr joseph zinn of grant co ky the latter gen bam sam L williams of montgomery co ky the following arb are the numbers of the several ages present plesent pie sent 1 seventy years I 3 73 years 2 75 years 2 76 years 5 7 77 years 7 78 ears eara 9 79 years 4 80 years 82 82 years yearb i 8 83 y years yearb ears eara 4 84 years 4 y ears 0 Ss 88 1 SO 90 yearb years 0 2 1 l ar 0 i their average age was seventy nine years yearb fearrand ye arrand and six bix monib monie their thein regate aggregate ag ages such sueh buch antab antas bohi bly w eafe lybe said baid baldi min xin can nog nob n be b paralle paralie paralleled iod lod in diany lay laJ any country in inythe th e wo world rid j 1 k N i i bine bina eheler last annual five of their brethren in arms in the wa war their gathering g comm commemorated em orated had bad idled midd grolf hext annual gathering was nixed fixed jort L 7 7 7 r r Z I 1 I 1 ehe the Ma oyles orles r se 1 1 sz B m m w TF lew bew e vager raees races I 1 have i A v e t attracted f t r a c t e a m more 0 r e of than the new Ze alanders rb on account of the rich inexhaustible gold mines which their country is known to possess than from their stubborn resistance to brit ish ISU rule during the dhe last thirty yearb years their indomitable spirit in a series of sanguinary wars with the british government ern ment their lenac tenacity lt and assertion of native rights an and their strategy 81 and id bravery remon remorseless bless it is true and savage but nevertheless effective reconcilable hut but defiant they hold much of what they originally claimed their chiefs have llave many of bf them attained to opulence and several beveral of bf thena are representatives I 1 of their ram race luthe in the colonial parliament less than thirty years ago the mao nies lies louries Mo uries were not hot only fierce savages but cannibals and andi with the solitary exception of infanticide were steeped in every vice and crime peculiar to ta bavage savage wa warriors priors they havo haye adwa now a native literature can tan read and write their own language an and ahre are almost all of them christianized Christiani zed they cultivate a the so soil 1 1 hsi hii havo have ve their own flour mills ills an and pasture nocks and herds many n of the t e chiefs chiefa keep their thein carriages o I on n gold mines lne ine sand ana and are among the ric nic richest eat men of the country thedaugh the daughters of these wealthy new zeal Zea anders landera ira lra broi brei trained jn in modern accomplishments such as music singing and dr drawl awine 1 and aud in ahe the balt ball are as ab much much distinguished for their politeness as admired ign thein theil exterior attractions few women iu any part of the I 1 not excepting even the blan bian da damsels posses poss tf greater natural attractions than the tae halg half breeds breeda of t this Is race where by the he admixture white iwhite blood ahe he sombre olive Is tinted into piquant brunette th the gros gross native habit of body attenuated into symmetrical development and the large dannek dark liquid eye eyes is are instinct but flashing with intelli intel ll gence genee and subdued by decorum comprises several islands in id thi the e indian nalan ocean denominated respects respectively ay north worth middle and south islands with th other others sos bos of less note vote extends SOO ml miles le w from north to bouth south south bouth and varied varies from 60 to in bread breadth the thye the geographical position of the country as well as its physical features ac account countin in a great measure for the characteristics of the race for fanned by F warm breezes the indian ocean on tb the 6 one hand and tempered on the other bakales by gales gaies from the atlantic the climate is eminently calculated to develop the physical powers and ripen the intellectual faculties the north island is the stronghold of the nati natives ves ies a and nd in the fertility of HS its soil the equability of its iti cli eli climate mate maie and the number of its 16 commodious harbors as well as the of its gold mines is by xan fax the tho most aloft anja th ihei thel whole i graup ther there are p reasons sons bons fon ton for or be believing beli bell eying that the he native natly oll f 1 1 chosei ancestors are supposed ed to tah have haxe av e emigrated from the sandwich bandwick Id landi islands have occupied these islands tot lot nive five hundred years ear aarsand sand band and that those Y ancient jun juh clet ciet elet mariners marinero ma landed jint on ad the island ifland not inore more than than twenty miles from the present erty city eity city of auckland whence their descendants spread into the valley of tha cikato river thence into the country of ti Tarana kii kli n novy 0 W the province of wellington and ana ultimately I 1 possessed Posse sed themselves of the whole of the north and middle islands island S the new now zealanders alanders Ze are gre able bodied of dark brown ii rown color cohort and manly manty nil aly bearing they have llave well weil formed intel heads a good ment and adail admit neither beard ngn nor whiskers they arg k observers have dave the tact of bi themi elves for the time being to lad tone toni ad ind temper of those with whom they tho ome omo ome omo in contact whether in the open oid eid abeld old the market or the counting house they rhey are implacable ene eno enemies mies and faithful friends once ifju injured r e d thy never nevel forgive once deceived deceive cio clo t they h a never confide they will stop at no falsehood cunning or hypocrisy 66 to circumvent a foe they ayro will wili v I 1 I 1 share their last m meal eal eai N with I 1 th a friend and protect him with lives tn in addition to these good andrad qualities they are strictly