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. 1 £..\. t ' v 1 r •4* ALL FT.ATJST AND R R I I 6 P JOB i G F r r 1 1 11 n f t Ing New Advertisements. W AMCB W. FULTON bra opened * TIC* OP THE PBACB AND Ont 9pfftgM'fl Drag 8t«r« PtUoau. J FWE t)I8THlCT COURT OF FTHE rjlfiraD BTATB8, POT the Northern District Hew York, la Bankruptcy, No. OSS. aesttsr of Jmmtm H, Morgan, a bankrupt. matter of J»m*m H, Morgan, a bankrapt. By order of Urn said four*, rtotfce Is 1 i«r«by fltvra, aeeaWlf a* to law, to all credttoN or 11 taakruptttoappear oatheSh dajorMarct at M o'clock 1B the toreoooo, before the said coort. at Jadfs* Ohambe'S la ta» <wy ofHJWOM, I n said Vtstrtot, awTtStow eaeta why a dficbarge fhoald sx* s« grantee 1 to th*> saM tsiktvtit Dated Buffalo, NT. Tun. S«, 18TO, T, TUB. iU&TB, WINFIBLD BOBBINS. X IIK PEOPLE OF THE STATIC <>F WiW YORK, to th« Creditors, Letatesa aad I lest of Kin to Washington L. Derby, late istrict n the Clerk. of the towa of Basse 1, tn the coaaty of 8t. Lswrvqce, de- «S»WM», send greettnjr. \You and each of von ir* hereby clt«d and r*> ajalred to be and appear before our surrogate of the oouotynf Ht. Lawranctj, at the OI»M In itanton H.T.. of Conka. ChanitterUIn Jb Keeler, In #ald sovoiy, on the 5th d*y of March next, st II o'clock •oon of that daj. t en and there to attend the Mt- tlsnsnt of tho aceonnt of Martha A Derby and Illry IVrbT. Administratrix and AdmInfiltrator of the said Washington L. Derby deceMed. In t««tl ony whereof, we have can*ed the raal of offlre of ou raid Surrogated be heres' to affixed. Wltn«*% P. A. JOHNSON. Jl. 8 ) Harrogate of or said County, at the ttarroiraic'* office, tn wrtd oonnty. Id day of r>brn»ry, A D.. 1 TO. D. A. JOHNBOV. Tli« VlMirtty Itell. Very elaborate preparation* are being made for the ball on Thnraday evening. It will take place at the Town Hall, which in being haadaonioly decorated for the oooaaion by oome of the committee who have the matter in charge. We undt r itaiul that a large num- ber of tickete have been aold and undoubted lyifhe attendance will be large. ItwiUprob- aarpaee in intereat and exoellenoe any previ- Charity Ball ever held in tbia city. It ia for a moat worthy object and deaervea lartte pal ronage. ' . ! At Horn*: The Hiffht of the Charity Wow ian't it perfectly horrid, To-night of all night*, I declare, |ly face should be swollen with toothache If I joat were a man, how I'd aweajf f I'd «A to the ball in a minute— * . I don't care a fig for the pain ; Bui I CAH'T with my face like a dumping, And I've tried lota of physic in i Then my drees, too, it's perfectly lovely ! . 1 wWried mamma for that lace ; fthe vowed that pa couldn't afford it; And the flowers, 1 had such a ct To find them—aaalaaa and hawthorn ~ JPjde pink ia my color, yoa know j ASM roses are fatting quite oommon— Pitas* band me the ohlorofortn -oh h t fPaVU Storm when the hill comes, I know it; Bat* that dress would have paid for it all If I'd only bean able to show it To-night at the Charity BalL !He aaya the whole thing ia a nuisance— ¥o» know how men soold about oost; paid for my ticket, *. 1 —. tk-t, u nmsMv jut lost. 4 Davidean, ataraad for a trip to CaH- W -Mr. Oeo. Hall, of tha eoal firm o| 8ey moeretCo., arrived home last Thursday, after a three weeks trip to New York and Boston. —Mr. Will Bgert, eon of Amos Efcart, takes the place in Avarelle, Chapman k Bean's bank, lately made vacant by the death f Mr. Vilaa. —If any of our sabscribers do not receive the papers regularly they will ooofer a avor by leaving word at this oj&oe where all ana' takes will be correoted. —A onion with the Dominion was eieeted last week by a bridftS of ioe aeroea the river just above the light house and teams and people croaaed without number. — Dr. Miller delivers the next lecture m the Y. M. C. A. course on Feb. 1ft. His subject ia \ Life among the Saracana and Turks, and a recent visit among them. —People ebould always hare regard for the eternal fitness of things. To have a drawing room in disorder would be vulgar but for an editor's sanctum to be a food deal disarrang- ed is eminently right and appropriate. —We had a pleasant call from 8heriff Beokwith, of Franklin Co., on Wednesday morning. He stated that Woods had left quite a large blank book filled with the pre- tended history of his life, bat all the names of plaoes and dates are scratched ont. He had, however, procured a magnifying gU*e and had deciphered moat of it It ia not decided yet whether it will be allowed to be published. —A lady teacher in aohool No. 4 made a rule that no one should chew gum during aohool hoars and she took away the gam from every juvenile that h«r watchful eyes caught violating the rule. At last by combining all the \chews\ ahe had a big cumbersome cud and ahe has made a more strict rule against the offense with the penalty that if any one ia aught again he will have to chew, before the 'hole aohool, the big conglomerated wad that she haa accumulated. - Would it not be a good plan* if onr po lioeman were provided with small Babcock fire extinguishers which could be placed' in some convenient locality. The extinguishers work wonders in incipient fires. At least no of our late fires *ould have been put out had one been used when the fiatnes were first discovered. It is usually half an hour before a stream can be got on a fire after ita discov- ery if it happens in the night and a little ex- tinguisher haa been known to keep a fire down for that length of time., —All the loasea by the recent fire in Jud eon's Bank building have been settled with commendable promptness by the insurance companies. J. D. Judson received $4,500 on building, Vary & Stone, daotagee to library urniture, Ac., 9687 ; G. A, Munro, grocer 1490; H. F. Uwrenee. $1/>00. Vary ft Stone have removed their office to Barber block over JST.-P. Woolley's store but will re- occupy their old office in about three weeks All those who had insurance have received cheeks for the amount of damages. People will all take notioe that the edi- torial fraternity will in no caae be imposed upon. Our friend Nat, of the Journal, re cently demonstrated this fact to at least one person's satisfaction. It appears that one, O'Horo, who had been taking a Uttla to much suddenly approached Nat near the hay scale* Mil* in * Btan, bad committed tuletde in <m tbe privities evening by shooting through the head with a pistol.- On Thursday afternoon Mr. Vila* went to Pttscott, axSrjorfpanled by Geo. Bell.- They wt ni to a billiard room and played s short time, when someone coming in whom Mr. Vita* recognised as a hackman, he at once pot up his one and asked Bell if hf was going. Bell asksd him where he wanted to go, and VUat told him he was to Montreal. Befl tol<Htfftr he had on Monday evening, and dealt hint astunuing blow in the region of the bread basket douch- ing him up against the fence a few feet away, then fled. Nat soon recovered, and seeing hia aaaailent running away from him, his courage aroee, and he concluded that he had been insulted, and that he had better get mad. So he started in pursuit. O'Horo slipped on the icy pavement near the P. O. and Nat catching up at the same time, let fly one of his No. 12 boots hitting O'Horo in the mouth and knocking ont two of hia front teeth. He then proceeded to administer a severe physical rebuke, till O'Horo begged off and aaid, \O Mr. Lytle, I didn't know it waa you,\ and using ether respectful! cogno- mens. Nat then released him and he wi home a sorer, soberer and wiser man, Mora —Beware of attacking an editor. —Onr bojuness men who go outfrfde the le- gitimate range of newspaper advertising, and patronise itinerant and tramp advertiser*, frequently get badly bitten. Last summer a young man of pleasant address wept to tk< officials of the R. W. ft O. road and by prom ises, ftc., secured of them permission to get out 60,000 folded travelers to carry. time tables suitable for He claimed that he could get enough Advertising on tbe folder to pay for them. Then he went to Roma, Water- town .and Ogdensburg and represented that he waa going to get ont 20,000 time tables from each place and that it would be a good ol to advertise. He waa patronised liberally in various plaoes. He then had a few hundred of the time tables p'rintedt which he gave to the advertisers as a guarantee that the job waa done. They euppeaed that the remainder woald he distributed, and ao he waa era! handled dollars by them. Bis per tea* profit. ItiaiM»o%*tosnytaeA ib«jb**ete* loaders were not #*tea <*t«t*n**4 that \ ssjih gg no ttion^, W^n Vila* h tor go over the river And get *Mnej'm%s}yVand he would wait till he came back. Bell then said, \ No, Bd, I guess I won't go.\ VUas hen hsrle him good bye and went to the 8t L A O. R. R depot, (fot on board the branch train and went to the junction.— On tbe train he met 6*pt. Beit It ap- pears that he disclaimed all Intention of going to* Montreal. On arriving at the unction Capt. Best told him to wait a few minutes and he would return with him. Best went aboard the train to at- tend to his business a* U. 8. Customs of- ficer, but on hit return Vila* was not to be found. He supposed that Vila* had gone back to Prescutt and he thought no more about the matter. Subsequent events, however, show that Vitas went on I He Montreal train and proceeded at once to that place. . Nothing ia known of bs presence till Friday evening, when he called at the 8t, Lawrence Hall and inquired if Mr. 8ey~ mour txwuieU there and WM told that be did. He was asked If he wished to see him and replied that he did not, but said he wished Mr. Seymour to see him. He hen went Into tbe amok inn room and soon after the report of a pistol was heard and Mr. Vllas was found a moment after dving with a wound behind his right ear. Mr. Geo. D. Seymour, who was a cousin of Mrs, Vilaa, waa at once summoned and took charge of the body and telegraphed to Mr. Vila** friends in Ojgdensbiirg. Amos Wells immediately went to Rouses Point and brought home tbe. body arriving hero on Saturday at midnight by tbe O. & L. 0.HR The funeral waa held on Mon- day and waa largely attended. Edwin B. Vllas waa the eldest soo of Aldeu Vilas, a well known business man f Ogdenstrarfl: and connected with many of the best families iiilhe city/ He hud held xhe position as V Her it the bunk for a number of years and Was most reliable faithful in the discharge of his duties.— He * as a most genial and pleasant young &••••*:•••..-••. m it'is n^w only hatf past «**>. *«t am get a oatter at %\m door;.\ Deceased fepllfd U I am not going to g0; I will stay here.\ Witness returndri, **If yon wish to star here you can register your name in the office,\ adding, \you have not been long In the city b»v<i yout\ Deceased replied, \The first time that I have been in the hpuse was to-night, and I would not like to register my name.*— Witness said, \Why ?\ He replied. \Be- cause I would not Ifke t<t register my right name \ Wltnres said, \Well there is no- body here will ask you whether it is your right name or not.\ Deceased then e*k- ed, \Mr. Beymour is In the house, is he not f Witness said jhe was. Deceased •aid, \Well I dont want to nee ' him.\— Witness replied, \Well he might happen to dmp In bere. n Deceased repented, \Weft I don't want to sen trim,\ nod ad- ded, \Too are a good looking fellow; I think I could place confidence in vou. 1 would like to tell you something, but I don't dare to.\ Witness answered, \Any- thing you have to saj, my friend, teh it right ont\ 4 *No: no,\ said he, -I don't dare to.\ 4> Ob, my poor wife and two ehilaren,\ he repeated several times, and the tears rolled down his cheeks. Then mentioning Mr. Seymour's name aifaln. he said, \I would not like to see him.\— Mr. Jacob Rbynai was walking up and down and heard him ask witnea* to take a drink and heard witness refu e. De- ceased also spoke something about not having enough money. Witness rather suspected that the deceased watt from Og domburg, and asked Utu if that waw uut so, to which he replied more than once, \I did not say where I was from.\ He bad a five dollar note, two quarters and a ten cent piece, which bo gave to pay the drink, and a gold watch. He threw the money, u watch and all,\ upon the counter. By the Coroner—Did not know what to make of the fellow when he spoke of Ui& wife and children. When he cried and the tears ran down bis cheeks as be spoke of his wife and children, witness thought that he must have got into trouble. He did not appear to be* a man who drank.— Me was with witness tor a few moments. Haw a pistol polled from under h s body. Detective Vincent Lafon deposed to re- ceiving tbe revolver produced from Dr. Trettholme. The weapon is one of the Hopkins and Allen Manufacturins; Co.*s, X L., No. 8. safety lock five chambered mad, and was a thorough gentleman Mr. GeOrge Seymour, of Ogdensburg, N. Y., doing business in Montreal as a to mourn by this sad occurrence. The following taken from the Montreal Herald ia an account of the inquest; Edward Henry Trenhoime, M. P., w*» sworn snd accompanied the jury to view the tody. On returning with the jury he testified the wound was in a line between the two earn, and about two inches behind tbe right ear. The ehot must have enter- ed directly into the brain, causing instan- taneous death Witness identified « pocket bo«k as having been taken from person of deceased by the Coroner the previous night. It contained a paper package ot sulphate ot zino used as a lo- tion and n<>t for the porpaae of destroy- been trytac to tiraftW him he haa evMfr yc p ti him Ht )^ist sls»t 00 the bare alaiaof his iron hsitrtasftjsna! gone lot days without food for the ptiptte ei doing peoanea/ Hit meting had redoeed lie weight from 1» poaada to less tisan lfii.— TeiUnsferatehowhefeHtheniAlit belsrehie execution, the following from the Msiooa Palladium taken at midnight witt show :— He is now talking to as. Hays ha has DO fear of death ; has seea many people die aioand hiin, and it never aifeessd him any; woarid have just as soon bean hung yeataHay as to- day. \Faint away? _Xe» oir ! I wast to be aatnetking more than an old womaa ; I want to be a man. I shall not faint on any plat* f<mn or scaffold.\ (tltushad told hint that Van Dyke fainted \ that was what made him apeak about the matter), fie aaya ha has been a great sinner all hk life long, bos ts)iaka/ now that God haa forgiven him. He asks as if we think God oould forgive any one so hardened in aft as he was. \ I have an ed* ncation that hot few men in this oonntry oaa boast of. X know that this is BO time to* boaat of it, but it ia a fact. I lay my aria- fortune, to a aad diaappointment that oooored to me some years ago. There are but in coal merchant, and bearding at Bt. Law every respect. He was esteemed highly] rrnce Hall, deposed that deceased at the by all who knew him, and his dca-h haH time of his death was engaged a» teller in cat a gloom over the entire community, the banking house of Averelts, Chapman There aw few young men who would be * Bean, Ogdeneburg. He was the hus- more missed than Mr. Vila*. Much gym- band of a cousin of witness and was the pathy is expressed lor all friends who are father ol two children. Saw deceased at his duties in Ogdennburg on Tuesday lant. He was then perfectly sound in mind.— Did not know that he was in Montreal on Friday night, or what brought him here. He was respectfully connected, of steady habits; active and in'lustrioua and not in any pecuniary difficulties. His parents ar«* living. Witness could form-no rtason for th« committal of the act. Had had no disagreement whatever with the The papers (produoed) found on his per son were receipted trills and letters re- specting his wite\i property at Peekskill. Mr. We». Gilbert & ymour, son of last witness, oorroberated las f*tuer*e evidence in every p*rtk»!ar. Ttoenstasoe I -eing closed tfcejury con suited togotfcer and returned ***following verdict:—«That the deceat^i, Eawin B. Vila*, white in a state of temporary men- tal aberration committed atrieide by shoot- ing hiineeif with a revolver** ing life, toys, studt, a gold wstcti aw) several letters. The revolver found vnder t»te deceased he had handed to Det> ct vr Lafon. Tbe revolver waa % a4ve enooter of heavy calibre; three chambers mere loaded sod two empty. The ballets cor- responded in sifce to the wound. Deceas ed inn t have held the pistol close to his bead a* his hair was singed by the dis- charge. The jury eipressed itself satisfied without an internal examination of the body. John Merritt, bar-tender, 8t. Lawrence Hall, deponed—Never saw tbe deceased before the previous night, when he took two drinks in a room off tbe bar. De- ceased asked if Giraldi'fl restaurant oppo- site the Ottawa Hotel was still running, and receiving a reply in the negative, said be bad to go there on business. Just as be was leaving He John Meant, bar- tender to Mr. Giraldi, entered. Witness •aid. \johnny here it a gentleman wishes to go to yoor pUoe,of fc*sines*>\ and they left* Shortly before 9,80 tbe men who have teen ao much of the world as I have; the fact ia, I have seea tco maeh of it\ On the morning of the execution Wooda ate a little bread and drank a onp of tea.— Father Roaaiter administrated the last sacra- ment, and remained with him till the end.— \ At six minutes past one Wooda was taken in- to the jail yard, and with a iinn step walked under the gallows. About two-hnadred and Ufty pooplu were present. The death war- rant was read to him. On iwing asked if be had anything to say, h« replied in a very low tooo of voice as follows : \ 1 hare very little to say; in fact nothing to say concerning the crime and the sentence. 1 wish simply to speak of the kindiieas of the people of Malone, ainoe I h*ve h«M*n confined in the jaiL Inhere ar« very n..u.; • f ru.. ... and I don't know as I may H*.ak vi ».. 1.1 ...1 • by name. Bat there are a few whose kind- neae I may mention. Amwig them are Mr. Wolf, Mr. Horton and Mra. J^add. The Sheriff haa also been very kind to me, and I wish to thank him and all the others tor their kindness and attention they have given me. But I am mot going to make a speech con- cerning the crime and the HtMtence, and have nothing more to any.\ He knelt and the Priest oilered a prayer.— Hia hands and feet were then pinioned and the black cap drawn down, and at 1:17 tha rope waa out, and Woods body shot full three feet into the air. Three minuu* after then- waa a shudder and twitob ol the l*>dy t ai.d after that not a movement. Niue imuutes after tbe pulse ueaued to beat M inteen min- utes after the drop fell he Haa pronounced dead. The rope had slipped around to tha ba<:k of his ueck, and the doctors after the body «*a taken down pronoanoed the uwck broken. He wan buried in the Ccraeojry at idalone. Oue of the ' prit sfes stated that Woods regarded his sentenoe just, aud that it «9s a due |cncnce for hi* crimw. WOOI>*8 HlKTOkY, But very Little ab*ohl>1y ftutkcut.c is known of Wood's history. Bat by combin- ing various circumstance* the following has% beenT evolved, which is probably very aear. the truth. Wood's father was an Iriah sol- dier doing duty on one of the ialands »f tl^ • Mediteraiieau sea. Here, he married an Ital- ian girl aud on hia return to Ireland,. Wood's, . whose true name w%s Daniel i. Sullivan, was born. This would account for Wood's ltal- • ian face and familiarity with the Italian Ian- •t WaaaVi. On VMeny, February 1st, Joseph Wooda alias DaaieJ Ballivan, was <ex«cate4 in Me*- lone. The details of theetiase nave already been 1 ghre* in these oolaaaae. O* August last, a tramp 4mm to tb*Mee of Htephea Barber in Belaaoavt, and ostsred to sail a Mat fer two dollars, which Mr. Barber bought, displaying at the same tame 180 in motiey. tke tramp Was giewei his dinner and a lunch to sake with him. Three days altar he retansea% broke into tke awnee and shot and fettled Barber, and eenmly wonaded hia wtfa^aftd left >arfer dead. Thea taking tha momj* he left. The sighs waa elear with a fall saeeo, and lirs.tBstw«r neognised the muiderer sis she tramp, W)M» a> few days fore had sold she eoa to her hneband of the mnrder ^su.^^ In his youth ho was sent to pnsop for crime not stated, aud aiterwarda escaped,— He next appears confined in prison at Qaeena- towa, Ireland, for laroeny of oommnnion plate. How long hii term of imprisonment waa, ia not known. The next we hear osj him ia in America, where, in May, r80s\ ha waa arrested for highway robber) near Bing- hajanton. A lady and her 4a*g^tet.were oat driving wh*a he stepped ont of a thicket and d«naoe>d their money er tawfe lives.- Ha was arressad for this srisae, was searehedwsdL a pistol found upon loam. He gave the natta! of Qaiseppe De La Maraie. At hk trial he waa sentenced to tea yeara imprisonment in Anborn. j thiring Wood's stay in prison he was one of the worst characters in the place. In thtt time he stabbed two men tnd cut a third with an ax, all of whom were nangeroosly injured. He was traotferred totting ding In 1874, and here he we* punished for stabbing a convict In ,taW neck, tn October, 1875, he WM transfer- red to Dannemora, and from thenoe h» WM discharged in December of the same year. Since then be has JWll^b fymt * ciimfmal tramp commltt^TaM sorUof •rimes of which tht rets no tecord. H* was reported to hav* been to St Law- msx there are some «W»'to f I If ,-t t 'f \t .J -S
