COW-HIDING BY A LADY IN CHURCH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 8, Issue 391, 20 April 1864, Page 4

COW-HIDING BY A LADY IN CHURCH

A startling occurrence, took place, in the Park-street Methodist Episcopal Chut:ch in Cincinnati, on Sunday, December 13tli, a lady member of the Church, Miss Penelope, administering a cow-hiding and peppering to a male member of the same congregation, a Mr. M. R. Barnitz, as a punishment for the conduct he has pursued towards her for two years back. It appears, that on more than one occasion he made insulting and improper proposals to her, and had followed her to and from Sunday School for that purpose. Finally, she refused to meet in class with him, and explained the reason to the classleader’s mother. The class-leader took the matter up, a trial took place before a committee of three members of the Church, and the result was that,, instead of anything being done to Barnitz, Miss Jacob was suspended from class privileges for three weeks. Afterwards, at a meeting of Sunday school teachers, on tlie information of Mr. Barnitz that she had attempted to ruin his character by circulating falsehoods, Miss Jacob was expelled from the society as a teacher. Having been subjected to various other annoyances at the hands of Barnitz, she brought an action agaiust him, laying the damages at SIO,OOO. But the satisfaction and justice which Miss Jacob expected to receive in the court of law being slow, she at length decided to take the law in her own hands, and in as public a manner as Mr. Barnitz had ti’aduced her name, she proposed to summarily deal with him. Cincinnati Enquirer thus details how slie proceeded:— “Accordingly, on Thursday Miss Jacob went to a saddlery establishment in Main-street, and purchased a cow-hide. On her way home she purchased a quarter of a pound of Cayenne pepper. Without imparting to any one her purpose, she got up on Sunday morning as usual, took her breakfast, and then dressed for Church. She arrived at the chapel before the services were commenced, and took a seat immediately opposite to Mr. and Mrs. Barnitz. Mr. Barnitz, who is the leader of the singing in the Church, observed Miss Jacob take a seat opposite him, and eye him closely. His eyes dropped, and he immediately appeared agitated. He did not sing, the task being assigned to Mr. Hidding. When the second hymn was being sung, all the congregation were on their feet except Miss Jacob and Mr. Barnitz. The two only remained seated. The first one to kneel was Barnitz, coveriug his face with his hands. As soon as tlie minister had commenced his prayer, Miss Jacob deliberately pulled the gloves from her hands, and then untying the whip which was under her cloak, drew it out, and walking over to where Mr. Barnitz was kneeling dealt five or six heavy blows across his head, face, and hands, each stroke sounding distinctly in every part of the house. The minister ceased prayer, the congregation rose to their feet, and Barnitz, still on his knees, rose up. and seizing the cow-hide, wrenched it from her hand, and attemped to strike her, but was prevented by a Mr. Canning, who grapjfled his am# Miss Jacob then seized him by the hair of his head with her left hand, and with her riglitwaslied his face all over with Cayenne pepper, exclaiming “Mack Barnitz, you are a black hearted cowardly villain, and this is for your lying.” At this instant some person put his hand over her mouth, when she took another handful of pepper, and throwing it at him, the crowd, which were abont to press on her soon beat a hasty retreat. A Mr. Rennick caught her round the waist and pulled her towards the door. Miss Jacob, seeing Mr. Rennick, recognised in him one of her persecutors, and turning upon him, also washed his fac s with pepper. Before qtreb was restored and tlie service could go on, more than half the congregation had left the church. We may here state that it is the purpose of Miss Jacob to prosecute the suit at law for damages. —Cincinnati <pa\ er.

“ Steel shot” are now, to speak figuratively, in evey’ody’s mouth. In other words, after spending three millions sterling in revolutionizing our ordnance, it is suddenly admitted as an incontrovertible fact, that steel shot will go through any armour plates, any iron-side monitors, or “Warriors,” on the face of the ocean ; and this, at close quarters, from our old “ Brown Bess ” of cannon— the sixty-eight pounder. Like a snow-ball, your cast-iron sphere goes smash against armour, whereas, like a stone through a pane of “ British plate,’” 1 the steel sphere carries all before it. Mr. Bessemer publicly announces that for many months he has been supplying the Russians with steel shot. Blakely’s agent publishes that the Keokuk was sunk with balls of steel (of Blakely’s manufacture), from Charlestown batteries. The Times admits that nothing in the shape of floating batteries can stand against steel shot. Does it not then seem a pity that we have so long been finding out what every blacksmith, whitesmith, working engineer, and workshop apprentice -knew in theory whenever he made a hole with a si eel punch.. Bessemer

has admirable machinery for rolling stee spheres. _ .. | Mr. Bessemer also justlyjbomplains of the| tardiness of the British Government in .not trying his stefel ordnance, made by his pro-j cesses in one solid piece of steel, up to twenty tons weight, Krupp’s fashion. As: we are on the subject I may mention, that the displacement caused by using steel plates in the structure of ships’ hulls, will allow of ten-inch armour plates; also that, for long sea voyages, the question of freight and coal stowage will receive additional assistance by use of steel plates,aud further, there are not only in English, but in foreign ports, several vessels building, the Imlls of which are made entirely of steel. To Mr. Bessemer’s splendid discovteries we owe the advantages I have above referred to.—London Correspondent of Nelson Examiner. -- The Missing Lord Raglan.—Waif from the Sea. —A young woman belonging to the t -Lbo-m-hood of Elie, while corning alon Largo S -nds the other day, picked up a bole below highw er mark, firmly corked witn A aper, whi n evidently had been in contact mo. The bottle contained the following statement, plainly written on a piece of Boiled paper: —“Lord Raglan, 24th Septeinber—Eire broke out in the fore cabin, and ’estroying the ship.” This paper is are£ iy kept, and may he seen by any or , who m 'y feel interested in:

the matter. We find upon inquiry that the jLord Raglan was a large vessel of 1886 tons, built at Quebec in 1854, and sailed from jLiverpool for Melbourne in February, 1863. jShe was commanded by Captain Curran, |who Captain Clark, of the Chariot of Fame, informs us was his chief officer when here jlast, and was an exceedingly careful man. There must be some mistake in the date of the paragraph, as the vessel was spoken with in March, 1863, in latitude 1 degree North and longitude 26 degrees West. It seems likely that the 24th of September was the date when the paper Was picked up, 'or else the date of the Dundee Advertiser. 'And the accident must have occurred shortly after the Lord Raglan was spoken with in March, as the bottle would have taken several months to have reached the place where it was found. There can be no doubt now of the destruction of the ship, and we understand by the last mail she was reported at Lloyds as being lost. There is one circumstance which makes the loss by fire more probable, that as she was flush fore and aft, her fore cabin below, and only separated from the hold .by the ’tween decks, the fire would bave little difficulty in penetrating there when once fairly under weigh. —Melbourne Herald.

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