Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State March 24-1880 A Determined Suicide. A young farmer living in New Scotland, near Albany, N.Y., left his father's house last Wednesday afternoon, walked up the road about a quarter of a mile and cut his throat with a razor. He also made a gash across his right wrist, the cut being deep enough to sever the tendons and lay bare the main artery. Then he placed a pistol to his head and fired, the ball entering just above the left ear. He also shot himself in the right side under the sixth rib, and then fired another shot, the ball entering the left side under the fifth rib. With blood streaming from all these ghastly wounds he walked to his father's house and presented himself to the affrighted members of the family. When the shot was fired into the muzzle of the pistol was held so close that the hair was burned off. The man's clothing was set on fire from the powder, and when he reached home his shirt was in a blaze, and the first thing the family did was to throw a pail of water over him to put out the fire. *** Death. Eli T. GUILD, who was a shoemaker in this village for the past nine years, died at the County House a few days since. He was taken sick last fall and having no home, it was thought prudent to take him where he could be properly cared for. Mr. GUILD was born in Augusta, Maine. *** J.A. CLARK has just received a fine assortment of velvet edge picture frames. Do not fail to see them. *** A Doomed Murderer. Carl MANKE, the man who, unless the clemency of the Governor is exercised in his behalf, will die by the rope in Buffalo one week from Friday next, says this morning's 'Express,' continues to idle away his short remaining time in jail with smoking, playing an indifferent game of checkers, and occasionally holding some broken conversation with his watchers. From the time the verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree was rendered by the jury in Judge BAKER's court, MANKE has never been for a moment alone, one or the other of the two deputy sheriffs detailed for the special duty being at all times in front of the grated door of his cell. Nobody is with him except the keepers, and until yesterday no person not officially connected with the jail or the Sheriff's office had visited him, save the Rev. J.B. KNIEST, pastor of the German Evangelical Reformed Zion's church. Since his singular outburst of desperation or overwrought nervous excitement in the court-room when the sentence of death was passed upon him, the prisoner has remained very quiet an undemonstrative. He has seemingly slept soundly nights, snoring mightily at times, and has eaten with manifest enjoyment of the good victuals provided for him from Mr. TUCKER's own table. But although quiet as described, and making no kind of trouble, unhappy MANKE appears to have advanced little toward repentance or an interest in his soul's welfare. When the Rev. Mr. KNIEST occasionally visits him he will talk with him on common place subjects or give him no attention at all, so the good clergyman can do little more than offer his supplication for the wretched culprit and then go away. Yesterday, for the first time since his imprisonment, the condemned man's wife and son visited him. He was told of their coming, and at first stolidly declined to see them, but he was persuaded to say that they might come, and they were conducted into the corridor. The interview took place in the presence of Sheriff LAWSON, Jailor TUCKER, and one of the jail employes who understands the German language in which it was carried on. Very little feeling was manifested on either side--they are apparently of a peculiarly undemonstrative class--and the conversation was almost altogether in relation to their family and home affairs. MANKE referred calmly to his approaching doom, saying that if the people wanted to hang him, he was ready to die. After they had talked for about an hour, the visitors withdrew, and rested for a time in Mr. TUCKER's parlor. Then the woman broke down and cried pitifully. She said she did not feel that she could ever live with MANKE again, but that he should be hung was too terrible. Anything but that. The miserable family have not now, she said, a dollar or a shilling in the world, all of the little they formerly had having gone in the two years' struggle to save the life of the husband and father. *** Personals. Albert S. BLODGETT, of New York, is spending a few days in town. Miss Grace BURROWS, a former resident of this place, is visiting friends in town. Mrs. Mary A. LIVERMORE, who lectured here a few weeks since, was in town this morning. Mr. A.N. HENSHAW returned from Hobart College this morning to spend the Easter holidays. Mr. E.S. LENT, who has been visiting in Washington, for the past week, returned home last evening. Dr. PUTNAM who has been sojourning in Michigan for some time past, is expected home this evening. Daniel McCOOL, Jr., assistant division superintendent of the N.Y.C.R.R., was in town this morning, on business connected with the company. Mr. A.S. WARNER, left this morning for Saratoga Springs where he has secured a desirable position. Allie's friends will wish him the best of success in his new home. *** submitted by Linda C. Schmidt *********************************************