JOHNSON", ABEAM. 



JONES, JOHN B. 



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matter of buying and farming land, the trade in in- 

 toxicants, and usury ? 



3. How can those laws be altered so that they shall 

 no longer be enabled to evade tbera, or what new 

 laws are required to stop their pernicious conduct in 

 business ? 



4. Give (besides the answers to the foregoing ques- 

 tions) the following additional information : (1.) On 

 the usury practiced by the Jews in their dealings with 

 Christians, in cities, towns, and villages. (2.) The 

 number of public-houses kept by Jews in their own 

 name, or in that of a Christian. (3.) The number of 

 persons in service with Jews, or under their control. 

 (4.) The extent (acreage) of the land in their posses- 

 sion } by buying or farming. (5.) The number of 

 Jewish agriculturists. 



In addition to the above-mentioned information to 

 be supplied, every commission is empowered to report 

 on such conduct and action of the Jews as may have 

 a local interest and importance, and to submit the 

 same to the ministry. 



There are those who assert that the direct 

 cause of the objection of the Russians to the 

 Jewish people is the natural result of the Eus- 

 sian laws, which restrict their rights and mark 

 them off from the rest of the inhabitants; and 

 they assert that the only solution of the ques- 

 tion is to grant to the Jews full equality with 

 citizens. 



The " Official Messenger " of St. Petersburg 

 made, in February, 1882, the following state- 

 ment relating to the arrests of the rioters : 



The number of persons arrested during the anti- 

 Jewish disorders and brought to punishment, as far 

 as the Government is at present informed, was as fol- 

 lows : General Government of Kiev ; up to 1,000 per- 

 sons. In the town court and province of Kiev, 105 

 were tried by court-martial, and 274 expelled from 

 the town. In Odessa, those arrested numbered alto- 

 gether 801 ; dealt with by courts and administrative 

 order, 243 ; expelled from the town to places of na- 

 tivity, 558. in Taurida the Government arrested 

 124 ; 80 were tried by courts, and 8 by administrative 

 order. More than 30 have been liberated. In Elisa- 

 betgrad, and other parts of the Kherson Government, 

 900 were arrested. In Ekaterinoslav, the Government 

 arrested 341, and 296 were committed for trial. In 

 the Nizhnee-Chernigov Government 344 were arrested, 

 and in different parts of the Poltava Government 165. 

 In the Kharkov Government, out of an unknown 

 number arrested, 795 were tried by court-martial from 

 June to December. During the Warsaw riots -in De- 

 cember, 3,151 persons were arrested, of whom 2,302 

 were committed for trial. 



These figures show that the measures for 

 suppressing the disorders were not feeble. 



JOHNSON, ABEAM, died in Salem, Wayne 

 County, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1881 ; he was 

 born in Vermont in 1773, and was one hundred 

 and eight years old at the time of his death. 

 His father was a soldier in the Eevolution, the 

 family then residing near Lake Ohamplain. 

 Abram enlisted as a private in the War of 1812, 

 but his gallantry soon won him the promotion 

 of a captaincy to a band of Oneida Indians, 

 under the command of General Macomb. In 

 the battle of Plattsburg he received severe 

 wounds, of which one was a saber-cut from 

 the lusty arm of a British soldier, which 

 knocked him down. Fearing further injury, 

 Johnson feigned death, and while in this dis- 

 abled and apparently lifeless condition he was 

 again wounded by another Briton, who bru- 



tally thrust a bayonet into his knee. This last 

 injury caused him such acute anguish that it 

 required all the desperation of fear of capture 

 and heroic nerve to sustain him in acting the 

 role he had assumed as the only means of es- 

 caping captivity and death. At night, after 

 the battle, his Indian soldiers found and car- 

 ried him back to their camp. Oneida, an In- 

 dian maiden, and the daughter of a chief, took 

 the wounded " white man " under her care, 

 and tenderly nursed him back to health. While 

 his bodily hurts were healed by this soft min- 

 istry, the hero's heart fell a victim to the 

 dusky charms of Oneida's sixteen summers, 

 and soon after the establishment of peace she 

 became his wife. They resided in New York 

 for a time, and subsequently in Sussex County, 

 New Jersey, where Oneida fell ill, and desired 

 to be taken home to her tribe to die. With 

 all the pomp of Indian burial she was laid to 

 rest among her people. Mr. Johnson returned 

 to his native town, Salem, where he resided 

 until his death. Misfortune in business and 

 speculations reduced him to the sad condition 

 of a pauper, dependent on the charity of the 

 town ; for, although entitled to a pension, he 

 never claimed it. His mind was sound to the 

 last, and his bodily activity was remarkable in 

 one so old. His only daughter attached her- 

 self to the Oneida Indians, and married the son 

 of a chief. 



JONES, JOHN B., born in Fairfield District, 

 South Carolina, December 23, 1834; died in 

 Texas, July 19, 1881. He was the son of Colo- 

 nel Henry Jones, a South Carolina planter, 

 who emigrated to Texas in 1839. This family 

 was among the pioneer settlers of that State. 

 The subject of this sketch was sent to his na- 

 tive State to be educated, and graduated at 

 Mount Zion Institute. On his return to Texas 

 he embarked in the business of farming and 

 stock-raising, which he pursued industriously 

 and with marked success until the beginning 

 of the civil war, when he entered the army as 

 a private soldier in Colonel Terry's Texas 

 Eangers. After serving with this regiment a 

 month, he was appointed adjutant of the Fif- 

 teenth Texas Infantry, and remained in the 

 Trans- Mississippi department throughout the 

 war serving in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, 

 and Indian Territory. In most of the principal 

 battles in this department Colonel Jones was 

 actively engaged, and distinguished for cool- 

 ness in council and gallantry on the field. In 

 1863 he was appointed adjutant-general of a 

 brigade, with the rank of captain, and acted 

 as such for Speight's, Pohnie's, and Harrison's 

 brigades. In 1864 he was recommended for 

 promotion to the office of major in his regiment, 

 by Colonel Harrison, Generals Green, Polig- 

 nac, Mouton, Taylor, and Kirby Smith, for gal- 

 lantry in action. The appointment was made, 

 but failed to reach him before the close of the 

 war. After the end of hostilities, Colonel Jones 

 traveled through Mexico and Brazil, seeking a 

 home, but was dissatisfied and returned to 



