Show EDT E D T oria O orla R i A irs LS OUR ous readers may remember a notice appearing in the columns of the NEWS some three months since of the career and the trial at Bing bampton N W Y of the learned murderer ruloff the career of this man proved him to have been one of the most vile and extraordinary criminals that ever existed in the world vile because of the numerous murders and crimes crimea he be had bad committed and extraordinary because of his great scholastic attainments since his trial and condemnation various expedients have been resorted to in hopes of staving off the extreme penalty of the law insanity was among the pleas started by his counsel but after undergoing an examination by eminent medical men they pronounced him perfectly sane andl in thier he also coincided ridiculing the idea of insanity the last plea urged in hopes of saving him was that he was the author of a wonderful philological disc disco civery ivery which he had not yet illy fully eliminated and developed but was wah which if time lime was granted him he lie would enabled to accomplish and that if it would work a revolution in philological studies governor homm Hoff hoffmam hoffman mau man who was strongly urged on the importance of him on this account could not see the point and on the instant the extreme penalty of the law was carried out and ruloff died on un the gallows gall pira in the jail yard at ton the man was consistent and slid true to the practice and principles which had influence influenced cl hm him up to the last moment of his career he was abusive at times blasphemous in his con and ecoffe scoffed d ac aa religion and all thought of the future or its responsibilities bili ties and was unmoved and occasionally sio nally jocular up to the moment of his execution A correspond correspondent ant of the new york star sar says that asa a profane he was a suc sue ess As a eurious curious compiler of cunning crotchets crotchety crotch ets be he was extraordinary auf An andaca dagn dada daga asa cold blooded stoical brute he was perfect the night before his execution the sheriff asked him what he should do with hla hiel ody to w which ruloff replied he did nol not care a g gd d d n and being in a bad temper term tern per he said he wished to heaven be the sheriff would let h him m alone he went to bed about nine and ale lp till tili nive five in the morning he was iwas very bad tempered when M he aw awoke kp and continued so for an hour refusing r e to see parties who sent iii in their cards ater after that time he admitted a reporter and for over an hour he tried to explain io to him his philological ebeo theories he then admitted mally matiy persons to a finai final interview and was joet jocular ilar liar and pro profane la ne in his conversation seemingly car caning caring n g not the least at then the near ear approach of death aa As the sheriff was leaving bib bis room he said i 1 I sa say bay sheriff I 1 want to go ot off as near noon astro silbie forie dinner today to day 11 he later in the morning his counsel VI visited sited him ilmi and they had a sharp quarrel over some papers of which they had retained possession and which ruloff wanted to burn at half past tast ten he wa was notified that it was time to prepare for execution he declined assistance and bud instantly dressed himself for that terrible ordeal his manner was as cool as possible and relapsing into one of his ill lii tempered moods his language was brutal and abusive to the last degree he scorned sympathy and assistance si and would have neither the procession from the prison to the seaf fold consisted of the prisoner the sheriff his bis and sherlf sheriff root boot they leftt left be the prison at twenty minutes past eleven the prisoner walked straight to the gallows and an d stood leisurely under the noose wh nethe the death warrant was read the ropeway rope was then adjusted the signal bignal given and the trap fell the doomed man falling with such a tremendous thud that it was thought his neck was waa broken but it was vas not for in a few seconds the beho beholders idera iders were thrill ed at seeing his right arm jerk up and his hand thrust into his hia pants pocket this was waa the final movement visible and in fifteen minutes his hear heart thad had ceased to beat and when the doctor pronounced renounced the body lifeless it was cut K down and placed plated in a coffin for public inspection THE jackson tenn whig published a short time since an account of a wild man who it said baid had be been en baui causing considerable fear among the people in the lo locality calitr in which he had been seen this notice was copied from the 1 dginto into the new york Times esan aena d fa from the latter paper by the cincinnati times and obron Chron chronicle edie lele and in the issue of the last named paper of the I 1 instant appears a letter signed wideawake giving further particulars of this bo so called wildman wild man and probably written by him from which it appears that he is a methodist preacher and if a amad mad onedis one his madness mad is not without method his claims and assumptions aresee are set bet forth in this letter he claims to have interpreted certain symbols in the prophecies of daniel ezekiel and other writers in both the old and new testament that these sym symbols bols bois contain the keys of the kingdom of heaven which are his by divine appointment he having the same rights to use them as peter that as peter used these keys to open the gospel kingdom to the gentiles so he is now instructed to open the kingdom of both law and gospel to the jews and close the period of the gentile church he re cl alms claims also that his hies spiritual name is 1 ellas elias ll 11 and the son of man according to his doctrine the second great destruction of the world is near at hand when rheu all the nations will be overthrown and abol the law of moses restored as the governing law of the world together with christianity as its religion THE new york tribune is responsible for a story which if true furnishes a terrible illustration of the effects of solitary confinement such as that which is practiced in many prisons the tribune says that a young man a native of new york named walter hastings while d dining ying with a member of the english n aristocracy in london some ten years ago expressed an opinion on that solitary confinement in a nark dark cell was not so horrible as represented the gentleman to whom the opinion was expressed so says the tribune offered hastings Ita stings if would undergo utter seclusion for ten years the proposal was accepted nind find a cell from twelve to fifteen feet square etl Bol gare was acted fitted up in the town mansion of lord 0 in which hastings Hast bast iuga was placed he was allowed cand candles candler less lepa lesa a few fer books writing materials a sufficiency of plain food was furnished him by an busten man the term of incarceration expired recently and hastings was released and although only thirty tive five years or ageia Is said that he looks like A man of sixty his frame stooping his hia steps tottering his face sallow ballow his hair bair and beard white his voice volee tremulous and his speech hesitating POCKET safety locks have been invented in chicago and have been patented in this country and europe these locks are for loc loo locking king the pockets of the garments of ladies and gentlemen and their use it is said will prevent the depredations of pickpockets pick pockets the loeks locks will be manufactured cheap I 1 and when locked looked can be opened by those 11 ung ong them by means of a concealed ring while it is believed that it would be bo im possible impossible for the most moat expert member berof of the light fingered profession to them without being detected or to td ply their calling while they are locked the inventors names are anderson andersen and lauenberg of chica go avenue ME MR COCHRANE a well known shorthorn breeder and importer has sent to england a young bull and a young heifer bred by him they were sold the one for and the other for guineas the expense and risk of ex por atlon being borne by the english purchasers sera aera how TO RULE BULB A HUSBAND above all things if ft a wife wishes to make a home attractive to her mate let her keep a sharp eye on the cook nothing makes a male creature more mora discontented with his home than bad dinners ill lil served if there is anything that will make him swear and there generally is my dear young lady although his temper seemed BO so angelic angelle when he was ik ia to a cold plate with hot meat or a hot one with his bis cheese neglect ef of this sort is unpardonable again i if may way not be possible to give him dainties but it is easy to avoid monotony by a careful study of the cookery book and it is quite astonishing how the monster maii man can be subjugated and assuaged by a judicious variation of his hib A meals meala the creature may be allegorically pictured lightly led by a fair lady with a wedding ring through throng h his palate indeed there area are a thousand ways to lead him if women would little tact with which they are so falsely credited opposition contra diction makes him furious be he stamps be roars and becomes altogether dangerous whereas treat him tenderly 0 wige wife and you shall ball wind him round your marriage finger fl lager iager I 1 have seen wives miss their chance of gaining what they have set their eyes on a thousand times through s eer stupidity they know thata that a certain line of conduct is sure to anger him and yet they wilfully pursue it in another direction tact I 1 such women I 1 say have not even instinct birds of paradise for instance not to be rude would act ina more vaga Faga clous cious manner chambers 1 journal |