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PKWY-ll HlClllEli'S Clllllllll. *â€" The Leader of a Remarkable and Notori- ous Sect. Revolun; (fondue: In a Colony that Could 360! be Talentedâ€"A ('onvlctlon that lay Came the lit-ushers to Dtsperseâ€"Thc Orlgln oflhe Flying Boll Disciples Trac- ed. The doings of Prince Michael and his colony of Flying Roll Disciples culminated in the conviction of the notorious leader of the sect at Ann Arbora week ago. The Prince was arrmted in Detroit about two months ago on the charge of carnal knowledge of Bernice Bechel. The at- torneys for the defence asked for a change of venue to some other circuit, on the ground that public sentiment in Detroit would prejudice the prisoner’s case. The change of venue was granted, and the case was transferred to Ann Arbor, where the trial proved that Prince Michael, under the guise of religion, had perpetrated out- rages which would not be tolerated in a semibarbaric community. Revolting facts concerning the conduct of his colony in Detroit were brought out, and the jury agreed upon a Verdict of guilty in fifteen minutes. Prince Michael was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, and he is now in the State prison at Jackson. The conVi- tion and imprisonment of the leader of this remarkable sect, known as the Flying Roll Disciples, Jezreelites, or the New and Latter House of Israel, will result probably in the breaking up of the sect. p The Latter Day Israelites trace their origin to what is known as “ The Southcott Imposture ” in the eighteenth century. Joanna Southcott, for many years a house- maid in Exeter, England, became possessed of the idea that she was to be a prophet, or a. leader, of a NEW RELIG ION, asserting that she had divine inspiration. Her followers believed that Joanna was the instrument under the direction of Christ to announce the establishment of His kingdom on earzh, and that the mission of Joanna \vas to be accomplished by perfect obedience 3) the spirit that directed her. Those who came forward in the spiritual war were to have the seal of the Lord’s protection, and if they remained faithful soldiers, death and hell should have no power over them. They were to in: ke up the “ sealed number ” â€"l4~l,OOOâ€"â€"‘.o stand with the lamb on Mount Zion. _ The mission of Joanna was begun iii 1792. Every member of the sect had a. folded paper, stamped with a talismanic seal and bearing the letters “J. 0.,” iii which were a number 5f meaningless sen- tences alleged to have been~ amt by Jesus Cnrist to the bearer of the document. The great object of Joanna’s mission, however, was an immaculate conception. "to bring forth “Shiloh,” promised to be born the event was looked Sor- lmOEIiCS- _ . _ followers with unbounded ! their long hair flying underneath a white enthusiasm and crcdulity. Disappointmero . . . of | trimmed With green. of a virgin, and ward to by her than once clouded the more hopes ‘ I :3)“, .mglthe “interpretation of the word.” l crednlous, super-sensitive, romantic, senti- mental, or week-minded individuals. His followers had to swear that they would never out their beards or hair, or shave their upperlips. Consequently, whenever mem- bers of the sect ap ared ina town they were distinguished casi y by their flowing locks. The female members of the sect wear their hair loose, the locks falling down upon their shoulders. - ‘ Everywhere that Prince Michael went he taught his new converts that Detroit was to be the “City of Salvation," and that from it the 144,000 electâ€"or more properly the 288,000, as it takes a man and a woman to make a “ perfect soul”â€"â€"would be taken to heaven at the last blast of the trumpet. The Prince came to Detroit with about ten followers, includ- ing his wife and Eliza Courts, his “ spiritual affinity ” â€"the other half of his soulâ€"-Lu- cifer Durand, who was his religious right bower, three ” queens ”aud three “ knaves ” to keep them com )any. This was in Sep- tember last. In Idoveitiber members of his sect from Canadian towns began to congre. gate in Detroit. NEW CONVERTS were secured, and in ashort space of time Prince Michael was established with about 125 followersin seven cottages in Hamlin ave- i i l .‘h .. i... .. .vz..,,,..,. ... J, I ,fl V AN AVBBTBD TRAIN WEI-10K. Lightning Struck the lashed Robber at the Telegraph Key. The W'ashington Star tells this remark- able story as having occurred at Medicine Hat on the Canadian Pacific Railway. There are several geographical inaccuracies, as well as other parts of the yarn that. may be hard to believe but the reader can overlook these in the interest of the story :â€" As the following sensational tale came direct from the lips of a western telegraph- cr, who made one of the groupof story tellers, he playing an important part in the incident, and as his veracity has never been question- ed, the tale must be accepted at the proper value of undiluted truth. and so pass into the record of tales undoubted from the wild and woolly West. “ In my early experience with the tele- graph business,” said he, “ I was located at a place called Medicine Hot, a small group of shanties on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, as operator, ticket agent and ex- press agent. Medicine Hat could be classed among the towns as being thirty miles away from nowhere. \Vhat little business was done was on account of a mining village some thirty miles back in the mountains. The entire population of Medicine Hat could use. The cottages had been leased one by l have been easily crowded into the little one, but as the sect grew and funds began village station. to accumulate through the donations made “One night, after'a. day of the most sul- by the deluded people the cottages were try weather that 1. had experienced for purchased, the deeds being made to Prince Michael. After a. while the neighbours in months, I was detained at my office on ac- count of delayed trains. A continuous roll the vicinity of Hamlin avenue began to of thunder, accompanied by sharp flashes of complain of gross immoralities practised in the colony. The Prince’s household con- sisting of ten maidens, Mrs. Mills, and Eliza Courts, was a rival of an Oriental harem, it was said. Suspicion was aroused, and about fivetnout-hs ago it. was strength- liglitning in the distance, warned me of an approaching storm. I fretted and stormed, as I wanted to get to my boarding shanty, about a quarter of a. mile up the country road, before the storm broke. I was lean- ing back in my chair musing over the events sued by reports concerning Prince Michael I that had brought me west, when suddenly made by the father of one of the inmates. A a voice broke upon my ears : little later it was ascertained that young and innocent girls had been enticed into the Prince’s household through the exercise of the strange religious power which he held over his followers. Then Mrs. Mills complained that for two years she had been treated brutally by him, and had been com- pelled to do the menial work, while Eliza I “ ‘ Hold up your hands quick !’ “Glancing up I saw a huge revolver pointed through the little window in the wall through which I sold tickets and behind it a. weird mask with terrible shining eyes. In endeavoring to comply with the com- mand, especially the latter injunction, my chair swung around, my head struck on Courts, the Prince’s “ spiritual affinity,” i the edge of the table and unconscious I roll- enjoyed the privileges of a wife, and ruled as a queen in the household. The disclosures caused a great deal of public feeling against the colony, but no ac- tion was taken by the city authorities. \Vrits of habeas corpus obtained by parents who desired to recover their children from the Flying Roll Disciples furnished clues that led to the arrest, trial, and conviction of Prince Michael. Until recently comparatively little has been known concerning the doctrines of this odd sect. Jezreelism embodies three de- grees, known as the Outer Court, the Inner Court, and the Holy of Holics, to which con- verts may be initiated as they progress in The Outer Court is beset by many peculiar cere- ‘ quently arose and made use of the . . The elect appear in barefeet, with wire from the switchboard, which cut off the honor in which she is held by the cap, and clothed in garments of white silk In the Inner Court i I - cd to the floor. “ When I regained my wits I found my- self lying on the floor of the outer waiting- room bound hand and fbot with a bad, ungainly looking fellow standing guard over me with a \Viuchester. The storm had broken over us and the wind, rain, light- ning and thunder were something terrific. “ All at once my trained ear caught the sound of the telegraph sounder, and turning my head I perceived a man at my desk. working away at my key. He wore a mask, but that did not disguise the fact that. he was a young man. As the characters were, ticked off and came to my ears I knew he was feeling his way as to the location of the delayed trains. I also noticed that he fre- ground the main office in which was located the train runner of the division. At frequent intervals sharp cracks of lightning 1 l f 11 wers but in the course ; the doctrines revealed by the Flying Roll 1 would re-echo through the room as they Jomnu and ler o 0 ’ Disciples, pertaining largely to the worship 1 struck the arrester on the sw1tch. But the of time the period was announced. As she labored under tuore than the usual indis- 0199‘ uttl‘lbulesi are taught. Laying on of , , . . . . . . .0 . position. it was deemed necessary to satisfy 11‘1" '5 co-lstltums mSPleon , ePlIOPSY and all worldly doubts, and medical men were called in to give professional opinion. The hysterirpare attributes of glory and divinity. In the inner Court a most complete confes- decisions were not satisfactory. The doctors 5 film! is demanded. The. member is obliged were informed that Joanna was 64 years of ‘0 lay bale “1" Wh°lc WSW")? Of his 01‘ her age, a virgin, and an expectant mother. life, With After investigation, they whole proposition. Dr. Richard Reece, iii the expected child. . bers of the Southcott sect were revtved until Joanna was taken ill with the foyer. Ed by came“ ent'h‘15i9'5m; 1" tendency l l ilr -v. man worked on totally oblivious of his sur- roundings. . “ Suddenly I caught a drift of what he was sending out over the wire, and was hor- rified to learn that he was trying to manipu- late the train orders so usto cause a wreck. ‘léei’est seem“, and licfmse Trains 47 and 48 passed each other about ridiculed the - rather than purity seems to be the object. I five miles up the road from my station, and The 00“qulequ and the \thle tone of the he “rag sending out, orders \Yjph a cool steady however’was prevailed upon to a, vowabelief .- conversation 1.: the Court are vulgar, and The hopes of mem- i frequently border on the obscene. In the Holy of Halies, that can be reach- On her deathbed she admitted that her ; hYStel'i“, epilePSYv an“ Parmt'like familial" claims concerning the child she was to bring iQY With the doctri‘les 0f “1989033 9- condi‘ forth were the outcome of a delusion, bur, . tion extsts that can be better imagined than after her death many of her followers insisted that the child had been born and had been taken to heaven to avoid‘contam- inatiou through contact with worldly people. It was discovered at an autopsy that the only warrant for the alleged pregnancy was a dropsical tumor; nevertheless, in spite of told. Those who succeed in gaining access to the Holy of Bolies ultimately attain per- fect purification, and they will constitute the elect and will never die, and will WITNESS THE DESTRUCTION of the world. Those who belong to the the publicity given to the delusions, South- Inner and Outer Courts will have the privi- cottism continued to flourish. In 1875 James R. thite, more famous 1 loge inthe world to come of being the scr~ vants of those who have passed through the for his debauchcries than his piety, estab. Holy of Holiss. lished the Christian Israelites, taking as 0. Up to the present time only two volumes basis for his sect the principles of the South- Of ell/mots from " The Flying R011" had cotte imposition. He claimed to be divine. been published. The first, which is permit- ly inspired, assumed the name of James ted to Gentiles as well as llle elect, abounds Jershon Jezreel, (from that. of the son of in references to the temptations of Eve, the Prophet Hosea), styled himself the’Wifh a carnal interpretation. Moreover, messenger of God, and anuuunced that, he the freedom with which it handles matters had received direct revelation from THE THRONE or HEAVEN. The rcvolationshc announced, would be t that in reputable circles are not hinted at above the breath makes it an improper volume for general circulation. The teach- ings, however, are not set forth systematical- givcn to the elect in aseries of nine sermons 1y. The stringing together of Biblical texts to be known as “ Extracts-from the Flying i without regard to their cognate relations, Roll, or God's Last Message to Man.” Con- verts were secured from the followers of Southcottism and other similar bodies, and the name of the sect was changed to the New and the Latter House of Israel. Jez- recl had many men of more or less wealth among his followers,aud as a result he lived in luxury. He contemplated the erection of a magnificent temple at Chatham, Eng- land, to cost about $1,000,000, but after the temple was started the project was inter. rupted by his death. He was succeeded by Esther, his wife. Immediately before his death Jezreel recanted, renewed his allegi- once to the established faith, and was bur- ied acmrding to the rights of the Episcopal Church. Esther died five years ago, and was succeeded by James Cunningham, who is remarkable chiefly, even among his ignor- ant followers, for his illiteracy. He is now the leader of the New and bitter House of Israel in England, although his claim to the leadership of the Jezreelites is disputed ’ by Prince Michael. Michael K. Mills, who” claims to be the leader of the sect throughout the world, and is known by his followers as Prince hilchacl and by the public as the bogus prince, was born in Canada about fifty years ago, and has lived in severe! Canadian towns and cities meat of his life. About six years ago he went to England and became one of the followers of Cunningham. However, Mills was not willing to stay a follower, and be determined to establish the sect in America. He obtained some sprt of a dispensation from Cunningham and came to this country. Soon, however. he received so-called revels. tion: from heaven which made him the head of the. sect and gave him supreme authority in this country and abroad. He was content to confine his i. tion: to the United States and Canada. {a went to cities in Canada the inconsistent and mystical interpreta- tions, the lack of proper punctuation, the absence of paragraphs, and the illogical arguments form a work almost incompre hensiblc. The faithful, while professing 'rcst willingness to explain, become sudden- y and mysteriously dumb beyond a certain point, and will only answer that “ the spirit alone can reveal this. ” While Prince Michael is in prison, with his long locks and flowing beard clipped short and shaveu, the sect is without a spiritual head. Lucifer Durand is managing the affairs of the colony, from which deser- tions are becoming frequent. The sect, it is said, has a membership of 3,000 or 4,000, but it is probable that there will be no sect to lead by the time Prince Michael is liber- ated. The infamy of the teachings has be- come so public that no community will per- mit the establishment or maintenance of a colony within its borders heieafter. ~â€"â€"-â€"-â€".â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€" In Case of Suustroke- The first thing to be done for a sunstruck an is to take him to the coolest spot that can be found near byâ€"a well ventilated cella‘r or basement, under a shade tree, or even in the shadow of a building. Then loosen his clothes and a ply cold water to his head and spineâ€"p erably not ice we. torâ€"while the arms, legs and chest may be bathed with tepid water containing ammo- nia or carbonate of soda. The best posi- tion for the tieut while this treatment is being curt. out is lying on his left side, for in that position the blood will more eosil flow from the head to the heart. The oily. ministration of any alcoholic stimulant is of doubtful safety, and drinks of ice water are likely to kill instead of cure. Cold tea or coffee is recommended. as is also lemon and in some smaller Was in the United juice and water. Blisters along the spine States and attracted a hull following of are often fellow»! by good effects. I hand to train 47 to take a siding about ten miles east of Medicine Hat and to train 48 to pass 47 at the regular place. These orders to would have thrown the two trains, which were heavily laden with passengers‘and ex- press matter, together very near my station. “ I could easily hear the sounder, and from his orders knew the would-be wreck- er was an expert telegrapher and thorough- ly familiar with train running. Every now and then the wrecker would raise his hand from the key as a more severe stroke of lightning would come in over the wire, but he was too intent on his deadly work to (leSist. The tramp of heavy boots on the platform outside told me that the contem- plated wreck was an organized scheme of rob- bing the express cottipany and passengers. Muttered curses frequently came from the man at the key, as his plans for wrecking the train would meet with obstacles in the shape of pertinent questions from operators up the line, who wouldn’t follow the new ordcr’of things without fully understanding their import. . “My mind was in a horrible whirl andl fre- quently strained at my binding to get my hands loose, but a savage curse from my guard warned me to be careful ut‘ my life would not be worth lunch. On account of the trains being behind time I knew they would be pushed to their utmost speed by the engineer, and if they came together the wreck would be a horrible one. “ ’511 storm continued to increase in force and pea: after peal of thunder re-echocd over and above the little station. Still the wrecker at the key kept steadily at work weaving his web of destruction. Suddenly he called out in a voice of mingled satisfacv tion and devilish glee : “ ‘Ah, that fixes the matter‘ all right. Forty-seven has signed the orders at the water tank and in ten minutes they’ll go together. Tell the men to spread out upâ€"â€"-’ “ He never finished the sentence. A blinding flash at the switchboard, a shriek from tho Wrecker and the office appeared to be one mass of flame. M y guard rushed from the building, and with a mighty effort I wrenched my hands free and pulled myself throngs. the door. The little station was as dry as tinder, the oil from the train- men’s lamps added to the combustible na- ture of its make up, and in a moment flames were breakin out in every part. “With lou cries several of the wrecker’s confederate: dashed towards the little room to pull their leader out, but the heat drove them back, and'as voices were heard up the country road coming towards the station they all disappeared in the darkness. “’ “A man named ‘Hnmphy’ Logan untied my legs, as my hands were useless on ac- count of the t numbness occasioned by the tightness of the thongs. and I quickly explained the situation to him. He hunted up a lamp and dashed down the track and around the curve in one direction, while I swung the lantern upon the train coming down the straight piece of track to the sta~ tion in the other direction. My lantern was not seen by the engineer, but the burning station acted as a danger signal and the train drew up at the station, the engineer totally ignorant of the danger they were es- caping and only intent upon helping to sub~ due the flames. Twenty-five words ex- plained the situation to the engineer and a group of passengers that gathered around, and as train 47 slowly rounded the curve from the out, substantiating my story, the organization of a prayer meeting there and then would name been an easy matter. “ [he on 'neers of both trains with their conductors old a consultation and 48 finally hacked to the next sidin , followed by 47, and the tangle was straig toned out. “ The next day the remains of the would bewrecker were found in the ruins of the staâ€" tion, and the railroad company’s physician, after holding an autopsy, declarei that the man had only been stunned by the lightnin and while unconscious had been smothered and then burned to a crisp. ' -“ In all my experience with lightning that was the luckiest belt that over hugged a wire,” said the narrator as he finished his tale,“ and the luckiest stars of the people on those two trains were undoubtedly _n the ascendant on that terrible night. 1 A King Seekins a Bride. . Tablets found in Egypt at Tel-el-Amarna icontain among other curious records the i letters sent- by a King of E ypt about 1500 B. C. to a King of Babylon denying that he had ill- treated one Babylonian wife and asking focanother. The Pall Mall Gazette gives the outline of some of those letters, which by Dr. Bezold’s careful and scholarly trans- lation now all those who run may read. Take the tablet of Nile mud, for instance, on which the scribe of Amenophis III. wrote the letter that was never dispatched to “Kallimtna Sin, King of Karaduniyash, my brother.” After a characteristically Eastern and ponderous beginning, in which good health is wished to the King and the King’s wives, the government, horses and carriages, the Pharaoh trieu to clear himself of the charge brought against him that he has not treated well one of his wives the sister of 'Kallimma Sin. “ From the time when my father gave thee my sister to wife,” the Babylonian King had written, “no man hath seen her, and none kuoweth whether she be alive or dead.” Now the King of Egypt '- has asked in marriage Sukharti (“the Little One”), Kallimma Sin’s fair daughter. Hence these reproofs. The Egyptian thereupon challenged the Babylonian to send messen- I gers who might convince themselves of the wellsbeing of the wife whom “no man hath seen.” The messengers come, but cannot, among the galaxy of Queens of Amenophis, . identify the Babylonian Princess, and I Amenophis now writes in righteous indigna- tion in the letter under consideration. “ Since thou sayest, ‘ My messengers can- not identify her,’ I answer, ‘ Then who can identify her?’ and I ask further, ‘ Why 5 dost thou not send a wise man who might fgivc thee a trustworthy account and de- 'seribe to thee the comfort and the good 5 health of thy sister here?’ Command, then, I one of thy wise men to come and examine i her household,“ and let him see for himself King.” After a. great deal of harauiziiing, in which he of Mesopotamia asserts that his daugh- ter Sukharti was “ not beautiful,” and after endless haggling over the loan of a quantity ’of gold, the marriage settlements are satis- factorily concluded, and Kallimma Sin writes to the King of Egypt: “ If thou wilt write unto me she shall be brought unto thee.” Ten years after Amenophis III. had be- gun to reign, when, as it is stated on sever- lal large steatitc scarabs, he had slain 102 lions with his own hand, he added another wife to his harem, and Queen Thi, on whose tomb we read that she was a “ royal daugh- ter, royal sister, royal mother, royal wife, great lady, lady of the North and South,” became the acknowledged Queen of Ameno- phis and of Egypt. Again and again the name of fair-haired, blue-eyed Queen Thi is mentioned in the Tel-el-Amarna tablets, and it also occurs frequently on the rings, vases, scarabs, and amulets of the reign of Amenophis III. a n Native Africans in Our Harbor. If any one visits the piers in the harbors on the Atlantic where vessels from Liberia can be found while in port, he will general- ly see a. number of native African sailors, fine specimens of physical manhood, who appear very intelligent, active, and indus- trious. They belong to the well-known Kru tribe, which lives along the coast of Liberia. The men arein great demand to load and - unload vessels along the African coast. They are often taken hundreds of miles, as far as Cameroons, to act as longshoremen. 'The Krus have the interesting peculiarity {that they prohibit all forms of domestic .slavery among them. The Kru infant is Emarked at his birth on the forehead with ibluc tattooing, which is the symbol of his lawn liberty and of the _oppositioii of his . people to any form of servitude. Some Europeans doing business in West Africa say that it would be impossible to carry on trade without the help of the Kru men. Many of the Krus are now in the service of the Congo State. They are help- ing to build the railroad from Matadi to StanleyPool and are as handy with the shovel as John Chinaman himself. The Kru man will not consent to separation from his tribe for more than a year at a time. He carries with him a piece of cord with which to mark the monthly payments received from his employer. On each pay day he ties a knot in the cord, and after he has made the twelfth knot he starts for home. He is frugal and economical, and is not apt to fake service away from home more than two or three times. When he returns with the money he has accumulated he takesawife and settles down. The Kru man is one of the most useful of the native Africans. Doubtless a small roportion of our negro citizens are descen ants of the Krus. though slave dealers usually s ared the Krus because they were too use ul in the service of white men along the coast to bediminished in number by transporting them as slaves to fereign lands. The Saleswoman was Equal to the Occasion A young saleswpman in a dry goods store who had just sold a quantity of goods to a lady asked: “ Will you have the goods sent or tag: them with yp; 2}, “ ouexpectt t am oin toca a bundlz like that 2" asked thg shgpper, dignautly. “ Oh, no madam,” answered the saleswoman, mistress of herself. “ I supposed your carriage was at the door and that you might prefer to take our purchase with you." And she scar one on t'ce .trictorious side. \, yaw .k“ â€"â€"â€"~â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"_ MYSTERY OF THE BACK. Unraveling a Hidden Crime. The police at Madrid have just succeeded in unravelling a peculiarly horrible murder mystery which has for some weeks past on- gaged their attention. On ‘25th April lost some boys who were at play in a little ino- quented street in the outskirts of the city noticed resting ainst, a wall of a laundry a sack of the kin generally used by Madrid washerwomen to carry linen to and from the houses of their customers. Its presence did not excite any suspicion till one of the lads hap nin to lean against it, was struck by the act t at its contents appeared to he of a much more solid character than any goods usually conveyed in a laundry sack. In the outlying quarters of Madrid a good deal of smuggling ass on, and some women whose attention t is boys directed to the matter concluded that a quantity of contraband merchandise SUDDENLY ABAXDOSED for some reason or other, had been accidents ally discovered. The police were communi- cated with, and on arriving upon the scene proceeded to open the mysterious sack. Un- tying it at the month they extracted a quantity of female clothing torn to shreds, and there then appeared the head of a dead woman. Finding themselves confronted ' by what was evidently a shocking crime, the police laid the sack on the ground and ripped it open. The nude body of an elderly wo- man, which had been tightly packed in a bag, her clothing being used as padding, was disclosed to view. The nose of deceas- ed was bruised as if by a blow or fall, and tied firmly over the mouth was a calico ker- chief of the kind ordinarily worn by Spanish women of the poorer classes. The kerchicf was so twisted and tied as to form, together with a quantity of black wool which had been stuffed into the month, an effectual gag. The face was so disfigured that it was impossible to identify the features of the de- ceased. By means of the clothing, however, THE MURDRRED “'01! AN was recognized as Ramona Tomas, who lived in a topmost storey hard by,along with her grandson, a. boy of 1‘2, who serves as n. choristcr at the Church of San Sebastian. A motive for the crime was en gested by the fact that old Ramona, was elievcd to have saved a good deal of money, and was in the habit of lending it out in small sums to her poorer neighbors at a very high rate of interest. For a time the police were unable to obtain any clue to the perpetrators of the murder. But at length suspicion was directed against a man named Julian Piu- tado, who lived near the laundry where the body was discovered, and whose wife had been seen in company with the deceased at a place outside Madrid. The couple, who were known to be in Ramona's debt were ac- cordingly placed under arrest, and severely! cross examined. Important circumstantial evidence was discovered at the house they occupied, including a sack resembling that in which the body had been packed, and a. quantity of black wool similar to that With which the victim was go. god. But the most valuable clue was a child s pinafore, which had been stuffed into the mouth of the sack. The accused had a daughter,a child of three, and on seciu this article she immediately exclaimed “ hat’s my pinafore.” If, more- over, corresponded with a similar garment which was found at the house of the ac- cused, Finding it useless to continue his protestations of innocence, the male prisoner, Julian Pintado, ‘MADE A FULL CONFESSION. He acknowledged that, being out of .work and unable to obtain any further loans from the old usurcr, be arranged with a compan- ion, named Morallon, alias Carabanchel, a plot to decoy her to his house; and having got her there, with Carabanchel’s gagged and strangled her. His wife J osefa meanwhile waited outside with the child in order that the latter might not witness the murder. The woman Pintado persisted for some time in denying all knowledge of the crime, but she also has now confessed, and her statement bears out that of her husband. She declares that the murder was proposed by Carabanchel, and that after its accord- plishment she helped to place the bod of the murdered woman in the sack, w ich Carilbanchel deposited where found. Cara. bauchel, who is also in custody. continue: to deny that he is implicated in the murder, and is trying to prove an alibi. The three prisoners have, however, been committed for trial. Oh ! What a Surprise. Some people readin forget that they were ever young, and never recognize the fact that history is apt to repeat itself in individ- ual humanity as well as in wider areas. The parents stood gazing with frowning brows at their daughter, while she was trembling and wee ing. Their frowns dcepenci as the mot er wiped her glasses preparatory to reading a letter found in the girl’s pocket. It began :-â€"“ Angel of my existenceâ€"w” “ What 1” cried the old man, “ you don’t mean to say it begins like that? Oh, that a child of mine should correspond withâ€"- But pray proceed, my dear.” “ ' Existence ’ spelled with an ‘ a ' too,” added the mother. “ Why, the lunatic can't spell,” said the old man. “ It is impossible for tne to describe the joy with Which your presence has filled me. ” “ Then why does he attempt it, the ass ! But pray don’t let me interrupt you. Go on, go on ; let joy be unconfined.’ “ I have spent the whole night in think- ing of you ” “ That’s picturesque, anyhow." “ And in bitterly deriding the obstinate, stupid old whelp who will not consent to our union. " “ Whelp ! Is thy servant a toad that he should thus be spoken of 2 Oh, let me get at him 3' “ But, Theodorus, my dear,” interrupted the old lady. “ Yes, yesâ€"one moment. I was about to observe that the hand that could pen such words would not hesitate to scalp the the most cherished relative.” "Tbeodorus, I didn't see this over the leaf." “ Eh! Let me see. Humâ€"" " Yours, with all the love of in heart, Theodorus, 10th May, 1835." “ l by, blue my e es, it’s oneof my letters”â€"(scnsation). " es, pa,”explaiued the olive branch, “ I found it yesterday-only you wouldn't let me speak." “ You may go into the garden, dear, Hem 2 we’ve made a nice true of it.” aid, (- a i -. -. A.) A" ..- - A..--~s~ .i. -_.__._. _ Aâ€" ~.. ..,.s., . ,. . “MM. w ~ _.a.â€"..