[the abbreviations and CAPS are mine] A jury verdict is one of those things that sometimes astonish the people. Sometimes from its being entirely foreign to the facts of the case, at others from a misconstruction of their duty, and others from the quaintness of their language. The following verdict of the coroner of Daviess Co. in 1872, reported as coming from a jury impaneled in Benton township on the body of a colored man found dead on the river bank near t he bridge at Groomer's Mills on Grand river:-- 'This inquest was held over the body of John ROGERS, a negro man who lived near Groomer's Mills, and we, t he jury, believe that the deceased came to his death by falling into the river from the bridge and was drowned, and then crawled out on the bank and was froze to death.' It was evident that his resurrection and 2nd life did him no good. He had to die.