3 L.V Lcj.v.a -T'.E, Editor and Publisher. DK IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, JlSU AT.T. ARE SLATES TiESIDE." r.icr-1 Terms, 152 per year. In advance. EHENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 2S, 1876. r J NUMHEK 27. ii 'Ijif fi - .re'.' Iff." V7'S. ,; - ' . 'rlrrn ios file wittx 'm rp'nrte-l to the .., i nn o:ir.v Imso " i ij ve in is year, ns , ; .;, e ml vise such to j '';. Ajtei'tcnt. , ,., -t .-.v mt.nry. anil visit ..,!;,. .. ... iri ;irticient. U'.vi.i. i i- t u.fi.vrs. . ., u- ,!it- wanted. Outfit an ! l iii !.'.''., AoguiSi Maine. ' - r; : A N'T KK! t Ateft8, y-u'-. i" their own locality. Hi lKirFKM!:. Al.'reM I. I i. . x .. Aua'ifta, .Maine. ) -,-. 3 r "" ,,. r ;.-p . : ;,;..i to the I'utlie 1 i - H I.ISTIMHT-TION-.: i v i .-; .! ! .ei t t lie , . ', t lit .ftli Ht'JS- i" I .; N '. .-'hi; -. illlive , . . i i .!,.! I.r:w:i:ic t M -:, ; ;'. .i'; : r. Kmi n"kj', on .1" '. K. ii wiiidi uct'ri j i.i iki ticket liolvltre tbe . ii .! ; iiii lit I ; 1 I".- '.ii (":': f l.XVv i . 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Tcw asla Store KECEKTLY OPENED HY Dnvra ill VA 1 1,15, JiiVl & COIPANY, la TiiJer's Eniloina,' Elensturff, Pa- AND TO WHICH Everybody is Rushing IN QUEST OF SUCH AS ARE OFFERED IN THE FOLLOWING LIST of CASH PSICES, never eqnallcJ In this community : Tlest Vrint, fi, 7 and Scents per yard. Muslin fiom 6 to 12 rents per yard. Jtesf. GlnrjIiantH at 12 cents per yard. 14 st Jlannrfs wttol) at V) cents. Jit'.-ff ViiitH'r-s wool.)0c. to.fl.12. liritvy SUirthiti 12 cts. per yard. Jlen'n Jfcfirj Iioi,t. Jirst llnr, 7.50 and 7.75 per barrel. Jie-tt Ifio Coifi ', 4 lbs. for $1.00, iMMl C''fJ'ei at 22 cent per pound. 1'rlme Syrups at 80c. u 1 por gallon. AND F.VEItYTHIVO KLSE AT PRICES EQUALLY CHEAP. Ttinnfadoraonrotrn F l.tnncix an.i Cns Ehnrree. whii-b c wiirrinl nil wm1 nu t H.ttivly F-il at uiinuta-iurrr.' iiri'-c. 5 r.t ixrluirired f..r w..ol. rltYTK. HAXiKK, JONKS be fO. i:iionf iiutf, June 23, lbTi. tf. ALL-WOOL FLAWMELS, j r - , . - . .. . r t V tkp j.lenor( If? f nnounitijf to the public th? the Wt t :,!:? ,M 1 rPeTit !y nwne.l lr reKr.. T. .!. Jo c Smi :unl lafeiy Ixtuiclit ! utt, baa becu tboryuir illy rctiiteil tlirouglioui liy a.ltjioit NEW IAfiIiERY AM) STEAM KlWEII, an.! hr enJ:ir!5in!; our t-uiMfns;. ffo have jnrei! tin e . jicp.'e tn tit up cur !i'l willi te tn't if ma cIiiii'T.v, nml en c'iiti'lentl' r"'Oinn!-r.il our ?;is (iiueres, Fiann-M. lshinketx. itc, a hfinir rqu.il in stylt DD'l fini.-li to any t-rotiirlit Irotu the tasl trn iLarketH. tjur gunUs are uruirantecd ALL AVOOL, and No Shoddv or Cotton ufct In any riiapt. Our prices aro lr Xi Cent. LoMer TRAM EVER KfcFORK DrFEItiU. 3 XJ BT O o n k: pn'ru'tefl t u will receive ppeclal attention, and at j-rices to duit tJe titnej". At'k yinr incrrlmnt for Kb- n'tix nicr-. an-t if lie ha none aeail to us ior samjilcs ty mall, or call at our 1 II. TERMS CASH. Goods Fljcchangetl for Wool, Ebensburg Woolen Co. E;enf!iuri, June 9, 18T8.-lf. fGLLlISJOilHTfOMCa EBENSBDRO, Penn'a. SIT, !. y a n i. e o x n r. a n i. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TUIEITOiTS. MONEY LCASltO. COLLECTICKS MADE, AND A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. rjrKnecInl attention psid so hnsinessof cor rhion.l' nt. JAMt I. MCUI'MV. t tiitunt Nov. lit lt.5.-tf C'ullcr. T71 1 X A X C I A Tj UK POUT ov IIarii Ttv vsMir St.iiiMtL Distuict for the i nits :, .! !..r .1 t-rm of yt-ar vitdtnir June. IW. I'ktf.u Ruck. Tren?urer. T)a. "j ift' tj i Tontnount reeelveil per Tax Iuplicate...$ "S.Sl ''''! of Stale tppropri.Uion. . . . . . . W.'Xt rceivt'tl lur linuf rent. e.ott rec'J lioiu lortuer Xre.turcr... 262 60 tl.-M.17 Ca. I?r amount ofor.ter cancel 1 ... 10 7J ItWHO ' .'fjtl'St i To halsnea Ant in han.ts of 1 ' " I"' '! ij!'jJiJrr I 't of note of F. O. Hnr TrrsurtT. ... hM !er 71.05 um't tlun n (Virroil townfliin - A : r ii i'. 1 ho lt .u - I ' i -t;,r . .-Ti.tnti. :in. Total balriuoe Jue LM.'trict 41V27 ti.-l. tri'll m a turn- j ' i:fi n jni n-titi. . Wo n,,nn,jor)l-P.e. An-I'tnrs.liarc this dayejf . !, .,it... wih their ,jmjfle, ,. niHive. titi't fin-1 the s.im to 1m crrect. r ". K. ri- i" arive ,.. J i. . i.i. ,i , .. r lnnn iRTit 1 I r.a .- i 1 Illlpn tF.n 11. mis ... -" AN IHD.VY SI'IIN Al'.LK. I CASH K It M l; U. V Au-litora. A it K Alt A. U (,'oy, ) July il. l57.-au FIXAXCIAL EX II I HIT of Wil mi:k i;j;'itoh St nooi, District for the year cn.bn June 10. H.8 : 1)K. To balance at l"t jettlenient ' am i from of olJ ccho.il houso... i. Micbael.4. follcelor .. " Sl.ite m.irojri:iiioa I)iiiiiMte " lnicrcst $ 182X4 10J.SO 8.0& $1.U1.74 CR. Ry amoant paid Teacher." Fuel. Btove, i c. " " Onler.i ... tJomint.-flon rhatenient to tsxpayers ' balance on lupliuuti ......... .tt2"i.00 . S '.2t .. 254 47 .. a.'.o . . 24 '2(3 .. 13.'.27-J'SOT.!,t 4170 93 Rulnnce doe dlBlrlet II F.N It Y MlClIAtUS, Secretary. Vibrio: e, Juno iPJ, 1370. t7-14.-3t. t T X T I Ml.' Fnf an in livrn -- t' t "i- .t..t mi iyjin v i . iii.uii i '- '"'' MwUit. (hwlt.tt.l I AUrt'liil, -STO.-tf. KVANi.IICII.VF.IA Tiltlen, lleiutrlch ami Reform. Shout the glad tidings o'er liberty's land; Arise in yonr might, great Coin mt.ia'n tand; March with enr banner thrown on t to the sky, Unfnrl every fold and raine it on high. Every man to his post, where'er it may he. Let Union and harmony proclaim os all free; Join hearts and hands in one common eanw, On to Washington, there to uphold the laws. Now is the time, and this is the honr. Each freeman must vote, and thus nse his power, Soon the fe will ho ronted, Lorse, foot and dragoons, Tilden, our Captain, will clear ont the coons! In th future no Grantism will be allowed. Labor will have a fair show in the crowd. Delation, Helkunps, and Boss Shepherds stand back, Every one of the rascally thieving old pack; No Radical blood hounds can live in the trai.-k. It. Till: MAIMED HAND. A Tnle of Cireamwinntlal EvMenee. Evidence in a criminal lawconrt is divid ed into two classess the direct and circum stantial. , These are very different. Direct evidence is that of a poison who says, 4'1 am so-and-so" and it becomes valuable when a second person corroborates the lirst exactly, or al most exactly. Circumstantial evidence is where circum stances prove the case Agaiust a niau, vhile there is no direct evidence. For instance, in the event of death through violence, if three men give evi dence they saw the prisoner commit the crime, that is direct evidence. Iow, sup pose nobody saw the deed perpetrated, but that while one observed the ji isoner gcing towards the deceased man's house with a cocked nun, at other saw him leave bur lii tlly after tLe :eoj t of liicaims ; a tliim tswoiu lie had heaid tlio prisoner vow vengeance against the dead man, and a f jui th (a doctor) found baits grasped in the dead man's right hand, corresponding with the prisoner's beard, whence a hand ful of hair had been leccutly turn. Then all these statements would be circumstan tial evidence. Judges (and juries under their direction) give great credence to ciiciimstaiici.il evi dence, in coiiiindiclion to diiect evidence ; because cii cutnstances cannot lie, and men may. Theie could be no (lispming the ex istence of the hair in tho dead man's hand, but it is open to question whether a man is telling the t.iuili or not. Ami lo such an extent do judges apply this rule that, in cases of direct evidence, the. pt fcr that tho witucs e5 shall vary in nuiinpoi i,i:it points. . Judges look with considerable suspicion ou witnesses who 6wear alike to the very minutest paiticulars, and are apt to put juries on t heir guard against such evidence. The following taie will be found to be a remarkable example of the sinuosities of citcumstantil evidence. Two cousins, David and .Tosiah Thomas, had been equally the nephews of old Far mer Thomas, the unmarried brother of their fathers. Iu dying, he had bequeathed his bundled or so actet of land .equally to his nephews, with the pioviso that while they remained unmarried they were to woik the land for their own mutual benefit ; while, if one or both m anicd, the eldest (David, by about a month,) was to take the old farm bouse and ono-half the laud designated ; and the younger (Josiah) was to have a house built for him on his designated acres, and which was to cost &J(M), this sum to come equally out of the profits of all the land. The cousins had received the land when they were 22 years of age, and bad farmed it in all ieace and prosperity for six years when the following events occurred: They were looked upon as equally good, honest, straight forwaid men, as honorable neighbors and pleasant companions. One clause of the uncle's will should, however, Iks borne well in mind. In the event of the death of either, unmarried, tho land was to go tx the survivor. I bis condition was by no means inconvenient, for they had. positively no relations in the woild, ami, therefore, each waa naturally the 'successor of the other. They lived in perfect peace; and the Fcrvants, men and wonie:;, found them per iod ly just and contented. Things nrie in litis position when it le came known in the village that David Thomas was engaged to the only daughter of Francis Hartley, at Silverton. People said it was a very good match ; declaied it vas time David and Josiah, too, for that matter was settled in life ; I and the people of tho village had become j accustomed to see the young farmer and ' littlh Hartley at Silveiton church together I when the circumstance occurred which sot Silveiton and iJrotherip Barton talking, j Farmer Hartley was the guardian of the son of an' old fiiond, who came of age on a ! particular Monday, when ho was to receive from the fainiet the sum of three hundred pounds. , On the Saturday, Haitley, being in the ' next market town, brought the sum homo with him ready for delivery on the Monday. On Hie intei veiling Sunday the cousins and this ward were at Hartley's houso to dinner, and tho farmer did, over his pipe, go to Ins oak-chest before them, open it, produce the roll of notes and display them. Then he rolled tbein tqs and j fastened i hem with wax, which hestamped with an old fashioned engraved seal, daue- ' i r . " l I. .!..!, ti ling iioni nis silver niutu vn.nn, j would look better i hand the lawyer tho uotcs in sealed p.icket. The ramily passed tho day very pleasant ly, tho cousin left about te.i, the ward re maining at the farm, ho being on a visit from the neighboiiug town, wire re ue uaa I just completed his appenliceship. Xtextday, wnen wie laimer weuu i mo oak chest, it was unfastened ; the packet of notes was gone. The lawyer, who bad arrived to negoti ate the cessation of Farmer Hartley's guardianship, had tut one course of duty to pursue. Ho iufoimed tho farmer the money must be paid, and intimated the farmer himself must bear the loss. The local constable, a keeu-wilted old polioeruan, who bad onco been iu the Met ropolitan fort e, was consulted. ! He directly instituted aiiiinute examina ' tion of the premises. He found boot marks iu Hio flower beds. ! behind the house ; marks of opening a witi ' dow irom without, which lit the room i wherein the oak-chest stood, and a fancy waistcoat button, which l.iy positively ou ; the window-sill. The boot marks and that fancy button secured the clue to the thief. The farmer having only bronght home the money on the Saturday, it was clear to the meanest comprehension that the thief must have been aware of the existence of the notes in the chest. Vho was acquainted wilh the fact? Five persons only, it was made evident Farmer Hartley, his daughter, David Thomas, Josiah Thomas, and the ward, ono William Palliser. Of those five, it was absurd to accus9 the farmer, because no man can rob him self ; while it was equally impossible to suspect 3'oung Palliser of stealing the money he was about to receive on tho fol lowing morning tho more especially as he was so shocked he begged nothing might bo done, and expressed a desire to let the wholo matter rest until it was explained by some extraordinary means. As to P'tth Hartley, it 7as felt she cnnM have no motive in robbing her own father; and, therefore, suspicion could alone, and with any degree of rationality, fall upon the two cousins. But here, again, the question arose, what could bo the motive of either of those prosperous men to com mit a burglars'? while, on tho other band, they both knew that the farmer, having been robbed many years before, always kept, loaded firearms in the houso. But there were the boot marks and the button, and upon these the old constable based his investigation. An hour after he had left the farm, ho returned to it, bringing with him a pair of hot, is and a waistcoat. The latter had David Thomas's name written in it, one of the fancy buttons was missing, and that found on tho farm window ledge jeifectly agreed with those on the waistcoat. As to the boots, they fitted the impressions in the garden ground near the w indow to a hair's breadth, and they also fitted other marks on a side-bed iu a garden in front of the farm, where David had gone on the pre vious day in order to pick up a young blackbird, Which had fluttered under the laurels on his first flight from sumo neigh boring nest. 'Vhcn the polioo constable told all these things to Iho farmer, neither knew Ruth was listening. Poor child she had recog nized the button in a moment. It was one of the set she herself had given David. But she never for a moment believed him guilty. There was some mystery, and hc yond that she would not go. She neither fainted nor lost her presence of mind. She knev it was no time for sentiment. Her conscience told her she mustbeupand doing. "Let us go to him," she heard her father say. ''Perhaps he has done it for a joke. Summers. We w ill suppose ho did it in fun; and, ifhe gives us the notes back, no harm will be done. Let us go to him." Litmmers nodded ; and after putting the waistcoat and tho boots in a cupboard, the two men started for the cousin's f:trm. There was no time to be lost -that Bath knew. She went to tho cupboard, took out the accusing articles of clothing, and pondered. Now this is certain that in habits of watchfulness of small 'Lings women are far more acute than men. In a moment 1'ulh Hartley thought, as she examined the waistcoat, "If the button was torn off when the thief was climbing in at the window, how did it happen that it came from almost under the collar of the waistcoat ?" She examined the thread t hat had fasten ed the bu'ton to the cloth, and she found that it had not loosened, but tliat-the dif ferent stitches had all been broken through, so that great force must have been used. It had ot dropped off, it had been torn away, aiid yet the waistcoat showed no sign of having been injured. Then she went out and compared the footprints in the front and back garden. She saw that the distance between the ftiotstcps in the front gaiden was greater than that between the marks in the. ground at the back of the house, while the prints farthest apart were deepest. So she reached this exclusion : "There is no doubt, that the same boots made the maiks in both the front and back garden, but they must have been worn by different persons. He who mado the marks in the background" (those .effected by the burg lar) "being the lighter man, so (he less depression of the ground; and the shorter man, hence the shorter distance between the footsteps in the background." In a moment she knew she had a clue his cousin Josiah, who was both lighter in weigh, and shorter than David. In a mere second she was morally con vinced that Josiah Thomas had torn tho bm ton from tho waistcoat in question, to clench the accusation of the boot-marks. But what could be his motive ? He was evidently attached to his relative, and w hile nothing was to bo gained by the act of treachery, much was to be lost, while his own name would bo involved ;u shame. llow could she accuse him? Ho was equally respected with the other cou.-in, and it was against the elder tho condem natory proofs ivere to be found. His motive what could be his motive Agaiis how bring his guilt home by sigrs as palpablo as those which menaced the other? It is astoishing how a woman will hanker after the bidden when it effects her happi ness. She could only breathe easily when she stood at the open window, by means of which enhance to the houso had been ef fected. Pondering, watching,listeniog, manoeuv ring and suddenly success. There was, in the window, a box of mig nonette her planling and which she had n-.a-.te the more pretty by tipping, between the sprigs of sweet Fcentcd flowers, with a layer of jellow powdered bog turf, much used in that district as fuel. Then, in a moment, she found more con demnatory proofs against the younger cousin than had, so far, been brought against the elder. There was the mark of a resting open hand upon the yielding layer of iowdeied tuif a left hand, and of which the thiul finger was absent. T.hero were the distinct indented impressions of the thumb, index, and long second finger, and then there as a space between that finger and the littlo one. She knew Josiah Thomas had lost the third finger in question down to tho second joint, ami that, therefore, the mark of the ! hand was not. so much circumstantial a 1 direct evidence. He bad printed the proof of his guilt on tho surface of the box of mignonette growing iu the very window-sill wheie he bad thrown ibebnuou dowu. It was clear to her as daylight ho had rested his left hand on the box whilo his right was engaged in forcing the window. But his motive his motive? What should sho do? She was still apparently inactive; and yet her busy brain was planning, .and her only action had been to cover the mark of the hand with a plate, as she hnd seen the policeman do in connection w ith the marks in the grounds, when Josiah Thomas, filled with consternation, rushed into the house. "Ruth, Ruth," he cried, in veritable ter ror "they have taken David into custody for stealing .:'K) from the farmer here 2 He would not do it he is too good a fellow 1 I shall go mad if they put David in pi ison !" She neither knew what to do o'r to say. "I was listening," she said, "when Mr. Summers came here, and I know all until they weut away. What has happened since ? "No sooner had your father told him about the robbery, ami that lie was sits pected of it, than you know how passion ate he is he flung your father down ; whereupon tho farmer, in his rage, gave him into custody, attd ho has been taken up before Sir R:leit." She was afraid to answer him then and there, for there was no one there to help her. Again, sho was much confused by his evident grief. "Let us go tip to the Hall," she said. During their walk he never ceased speak ing iu praiso of his cousin, whom, appar ently, he had ruined remorselessly by means of an infamous and monstrous act. They reached tho Hall as Sir Robert Maddenliam, the juslico of the peace before whom David Thomas had been taken, had decided to remand the case until next day, he refusing to admit thh accused to bail, but at tne same time declining to send him to prison. It w as understood-that the constable was not to leave Lint, and that the investigation was to bo resuund on the following inoni i:ig. .Next morning, the post-mistress found a thick letter for Fai mer Hartley, w hich had been dropped iu tho box during the night. Tho lawyer engaged for the farmer's ward, the ward himself, and Ruth (still silent, but determined to speak before the justice), were present when tho seivaut brought iu the unstamped packet. The farmer opened it, and found it con tained tho packet of notes, still sealed as he had left it on the Sunday evening. The thief Lad. actually teturned them w ithout even opening tho wrapper in which they were enclosed. "Oh !'' said the lawyer, "there is some thing more in tlii.s than is at first sij l,t. ap parent. There has been no theft here for ! the sake nf theft ; and either David Thorn- ' as has an accomplice, or he isa victim. If the former, how is it this accomplice did not make away ye.-l iday wilh the sum ?"' ''I'm main sorry I gave the Lid into cus tody ; and let me tell you, lawyer, I iiko him all the belter for knocking me down, (hough I am his Ruth's father, when I ac cusid him of stealing the notes." "I know who stole the money, father !" interposed Ruth. "You, child ?" She jxiinled to Josiah Thomas, now wildly coming towards the Louse, and look ing the picture of despair. "Farmer," lie said, "you won't say a woid against Dave, will you? I' 11 pay you double the sum, and belt's tho nioi.ey ! Dave couUiii't do no haim ; and if harm conies to him, it w ill be bad for Lim and mo 1" "I've got my ward's money back," said the farmer; ""and I shall not go up to the hall, except to say Ihy brother is innoceut, as I beiieve him to be." 'ilo is !"' said Josiah Thomas, earnestly. "And who is the Ihief?" asked Ruth; 1 "Who?" he answered, awkwaidly. She took him by the left hand, pointed to the maimed fiwger, dragged the half faint imr man to the window, took up the plate, and showed him the mat k of the hand, less the thiid linger, in the turf. "I did it," he said, failing on the ground. ! Wheu they had restored the poor wretch, , Kutli, with the unerring instinct ot a woman, said, ''Yon love Lint; and you have always loved him ; why seek to ruin him?" Oh," replied the unfortunate man, "wo had been so happy at the farm, that I wanted no clTange. I thought that by do ing what I did, I should break off the mar liago between you two and then ho and I might have once more been happy at the farm. But I know now it never could have been, and I am ready to receive my puuisiinient.' "But a woman can always forgive one W'ho injures one she loves, out of very love for him. "His own confossion would send him to Portland for five years," observed the law yer, gravely, "You must save bira !' she "Said, with determination, The lawyer scratched his wise, square old head for a time, and then he resolved what to Co. "Farmer, you must say you have fnnd the notes, and thatthere has been no bur lary ; that will set David free. But the post mistress will gunss what the packet contained, ami therefore the neighbor would talk, ami one or other cousin would lose his character." ,lLet me Buffer I" said the repentant man. "You must eoaway, and write the truth to Sir Robert afle you are beyond the reach of the law.' 'I will give up my part of the land by deed of pift lo my cousin, and I will never return to England I" "I promise, for David," said Ruth, "that tho value of your land 6hall bo sent to you yearly." 'Xo half," he said, humbly. "He would not touch a farthing of it, I know," said Ruth, gravely. Becausefl am a criminal !' moaned the unhappy man. "And at law, by rny faith !" said the lawyer, "we are all criminals, for wo are aiding and abetting the escape of a male factor, and the less we say about this the better." It will be seen that this is told. It will readily be nnders(tod that the particulars of Josiah's motives weie only made public when he was safe from pursuit. lie has not returned to England, and, in all probability, be never will. It is said be lives upon very little, and gives away the greater part of tho consid erable income he receives from his cousin to the poor of the place in which he lives. His great dread i that ho should ever bo Bteu by his oousiu or either of Davy's children. Dave and his wife have many times entreated to see him. but he will never yield. lie says his exile and his iso lation are Li proper and lasting paui-h-ment. This tale bas been told a nfTonlmg nu example of the fact that circumstant bl ev idence is not always to le illicit on. r.'any and many a man has been condemned upon less strong circumstantial evidence ilirvi that which appeared to condemn David Thomas. However, as the years move on, greater wisdom and wider toleration are show n by the la.v ; ami it is to be hoped in cur days at all events, in those of the generation who will immediately succeed u that cir cumstantial evidence will bo reduced to rules as certain as the of mathematics. We do wisely to look toward the future; to feel that, taken for ail in all. to-day is wiser than yesteiday, and to leave tho gloomy past to look after ilcclf. TWO 8THAXU11 CASUS. DANGER. OF CIKCLMs T.VNTIAI. EVIDENCE. The illustration of the vai iov.s phases of circumstantial evidence are, of course, al- most numberless, and we can only select i here and there one worthy of study for some peculiarity of incident or character, remarkable either for rarity or mysteiy. ! Two cases tnl irely dissimilar, yet bo:Ii put- j ting into bold relief tho beating of indirect j evidence, merit brief narration. Motive to i commit a crime, as has ofteu been said, i.- j difbcult of nieastu cniei.t, since crimes h.-iv,-- fii'tjuenlly been committed from what r.p I pear to the oiuiuary mind very inadequate ' motives. A very impoitaut link in tho chain of j circumstantial evidence is that of f.ppor- j tunity. Tobh'ow want of opportunity, that j is, an alibi, is an absolute answer to the : strongest indictment, and pioduccs a fatal flaw in the chain. Oppoitunity to e-.mrr.it the ciim; must bo either proved outright ! or itifen ed by the most conclusive pre.-'".np- ; tion. Thete never was :i mote striking j case illustrative of ihi.s than that of the i young Scottish gill, Madeline Su.itu, whose ; trial i;t Glasgow may e tsily he i f tuunil.-i tcd ; by many readers. It may bo said that the J tiial was one of the inot ir.terr-sting in j LutiSli judicial annals. Madeline iuilli had engaged herself to a young Tn t-cli-man, named L'Angelier. It was ve: y clear ly proved that she was-tircd of Lim, and was anxious to disengage herself from the connection. But L'Anclier cli'.!ig lo her, and refused to be icbuffcd. TLeio is no doubt that on several i.ccisien", j ist previ ous to his vi.i:s, she had purc'ia -d poi.. n ; and that always after iltcso visits Le was seized with a severe iJluess." On t ho 17th of Maich, Madeline returned to her hot, -c in Glasgow after a Lritf vKit to sou:e friend. The next day &hc puiehased some arsenic, "to hill rats," as she said. The arsenic bought, the next thing she did was to write lo L'Angelier, iuviiiog him to tea on the evening of the 19th. lie happened to be out of town, and dfd not, thcicforc, get the note until it wa,s too late to accept the invitation. She wrote agaiu on the 21st, urging him to come the next evening, and saying : "I waited for you, but you came not. I shall wait again to-iaonow night, same time and ariangement." This note L'Angelier received. So far the proof was clear. It was a'so in evidence that l.e started from his lodgings in excellent henlt h on the Sunday evening, and that he sauu tcred in the direction of Madeline's house ; this was at nine o'clock. Twenty minutes later he called on a friend who lived lust a short distance from her residence. Here tho evidenco utterly failed, and left a blank for four Lours and a half. At t.v in I he morning L'Angelier was found at. his own door, writhing and speechless and iu a lew Lours lie was dead. The autopsy belr.iyed a large quantity of aircnic in his hotly. But between twenty minutes past nine and two, no human being could depose to Lav ing laid eyes on htm. Madeline herself denied that she sr.w him at all that, night ; nor was the slightest pioof f u thcoming that she did. Site was pot on trial for the murder of L'Angelier; and, although her destic to get rid of l.tni that is a motive ; her purchase of arsenic that is possession (.fan instrument similar to that which was found to have been fatal ; and her u.'tosof invitation that is, a fiict fromwhieh a strong probability of a meeting between them that night w as c s'ahlUhcd were f.iily proved, the absence of all proof of actual oppoitunity tocorfitnit the deed availed to save the prisoner's li fe. She said, in effect: "I was at my house, and can prove it ; he was not there, for I defy Jou to provo it. Thoiefore I have an alibi." 'i he Scotch , verdict .f "not proven" set her free, but did not clear her of the stain of deep sus picion. The story of the Danish patnr, S 'rr.n Quist, is one of I he most louchinaly tr.".;;c iu judicial recoid, and onco mou- exem pli lies Paul Fcval's comp'alni that justice is sometimes too qvrik to seize upm n; pcarattces, and neglect the suppo? t: i.fj of fabricated evidence. S;en was a clotgy m.tn of middle age. sett lei I over a small primitive palish in Jutland. Puf and ir reproachable in character, genial, lien-us and devout, he was cursed w::h a li. iy, tit -governable temper, yet h u aiv.-isaSJy revercd ; and varied his pastoral, as is not infrequent in soanditia vian c -m' i ios, by cultivating a modest fa-m. lie Lad : daughter, gentle ami c.nnel y. A f utuvriu a licighboringiihtgf, one M.utou Run-, well off, but of bud npute, s t gt t h daughter in marriage, Lut w as r j. c d : t't bv her and by the pastor. Styi aficr l:i brother, Niels" Bir.ns, entetc-d the pastor's service as a farm f.ru.d. Ni-N ws l.tzy. impudent and quanolsome, and f.fi;:e';t altercations occuritd between Litu and Li master. One day Soren found t!i? man Mhng in the garden. A quarrel enstitd, when the pastor, his hot temper getting tho better of him, struck NUil several limes with a spad. savin", "I'll beat thee, d ig, uV.il thou pes dead at mv tVft." - The man then jumped vp and ran off iuto tho wo-! and was not seen again. The rejected suitor, Morten, after his brother had tl n mysteriously disappeared, br-Mly ehaige.i tho pastor with tho crime, and ottered to pioluco conviuc'"g p,,M'f'i f iho fact. Soren was, therefore, arraigned, when i he following evidence was arrayed against him: A man testittetl l liar, on tne n;t;nr after the quarrel, be saw the parson iv. his green dressing-gown and white night cap, digging hard in the garden. It was also proven that search having b?en made in the garden. body bad been r.ncirt h d, undoubtedly that of .Niels, with his clothes a nil earrings on it. A servant phi testifi. rl not only to having heard S.au k jm arcd.y threaten to ki'.l ,'iIv, but to having c.-u theparsiti g out into the uaifien on the fatal night in his given 'die s ng-g. wn a .1 r.ight-e.ip. St ill m nuig, r c v:ii.-i:ee w as pro duced to the fft-ct Hiat 'ho parson hr: t been seen itfchis g:x en i'. essi.tg-irow u ai d. night cap cariv ing a Itcoy saok from ;i Wiwd near l y into the garden. The chai-i of evidence wasaj paienlH complete agnirst Soren. and tho po.jr paion now sealed Lis own fate by declaring that he Wlieved bo had killed Niels, though unconciotisly. Ho stated that he was wont to walk "in his fleep. He bad found texts, written ser mons, and visited his chureh while in a state of somnambulism. He must, thcre foic, have found the man dead iu the wo.t.1 whilo thus unconscious, and r-tve buiic l him while in this condition. To be buof, S'tran wns found gni'ty :!"! executed. Twenty yeais after. Niels Linns turned up again, alive ai:d will, though grown old and gray. lie irccnv.ted how his brother Molten ,now dead i had concocted a plot to fasten the ciime of minder on the pastor, in revenge for li e tr Vcti-"i xf his suit. A body had been r!isioei ed ami dreeecd iu eii s clothes; the diessir.g-gown ami night-cap had been abstracted, used, Siswo Lavo seen, and rcplac-d ; Moiton, dre r., d i-i them, had bio-i;iit the corpse in : g;t-k: a'id biiiii'd it i:i the gaide't. and tl tn. plot Cit iicil oat, he gave Niel a.pnisc an. bid him br-gm , ami not to reti:i:i. or l.;s life should auswt r for it. Ni 5 Lad k-ps out of tho way ti!i Mot fen's d-'ath. and Lad now rc-SiauL'd with thi.s hoiiib'.c t'o. T'lK C'iiir.D GitA" i II'.-'..' sf.s: Mavt.r .!. i I tL-3 inf.:::! pl . 'N:y. or I oi ...tot-," r. ? Le is called in Washing'ou ami i':t it imoi .-. wilt re he !:;:s 0 !.:e to be e.V v.-c-.I l.iimvi:, is now iu thise.ity. and Mono ay e-.. i.tag !. M-.l pi li tot! .. i go. H'.uiel.'CO as. t j . ::i. ; e s t-ii-len o u; et:'t- n,. i:;g ', nuts'.. st.ttd .v.-i h n.: :: g to th e!. i:n. t'.f l:vcr Spee'.ll lh:-h tl.e I.'sh p:t'piit. );!', 1 llisiii.ei, i.-i-.d,. f.-,ni the ;ee:i street i cc in hiiol.ii. M r. Lcy h.i.l j.s-t ht vl Lis C'jincl so!..-, ;t'.:d as uu ', t-io.si of the a,s lle;ice tvt :v w : ; ..-) I-t-ai ; .g distance, b-.:t w-Len a cl.'.'d began thus i n a smith -i t'.ie delivery rf a great spctch from tho spot just vacated by the nnisiciiins, every pvrsoii in tho Hippodrome gatheicd us nt.ic as p,ts:. ible, nml for about lor'y-. iht min utes Master !!:-r:y held his o,.luiitl-. Ltm the bar tc ndv-is and wa.tor d seitt .1 H e r places and went out sir! inii i.iet vwih tho au'licuce. f,,r no bu .iness cmid be demo so long as the c-!:.!d continued l"s; -k. "i'j.o Sit i j ti.--c l.r.d hern ananced by Mr. Shu. k, who is a fiien.t of the ten1 i- , io has Master H.-u'-y in charue. TL..' child is u native of Washiirgton c:iy. Some inne ho st.d'kn'j developed the capacity to com mit a .y speech or v. i:it:g to t.n i,. .v ;.t single Lei.iil.g. His u.otinT was ler.t'it g aloud, when her rbdd stopped her ?'uid '. ly and ask-d permission to reei e what si o had been rc-atling. lit; ta: ted t.;l aie.i lu poatcil C'-rieelly Ihe p:-cc s'.io liad re:id. ot tho same time m iking gtstuies and ukk'u Ltting his v.ii'-o ab-if it was rtqniied, in somuch that his m-itber f unid '.n-i !wy 1o livei iug iiii oiatit'tt to an em'-.t neo of one ami marveled ..;r -a'.ly. She was frightei e l and ia:i to iufoi n senne of Let ticijrlioois of what had happened. Ever since "that time the Iietioaievon Lns iemai:ied the same, ami two or three public exhibition Lave been given in Washington. Ma ter Ilaiiy is iietw o;i!y st-vn jcirs ;:!. n-.f nee r reeeivect atty cd'i' a; io;i n-t t ve:i U' lrnmg to road. !ie in.iT.Me.sts t o desii'e tti pt-t book "learning. tpia-ti::ly sai.-:ied with what he teems to gut by inspir.it ion. li.s bi-other, who is or.ty thit and a Ini'.f yen : ,t old, has. it. is said, K ve! po(l a taletit for mii.-ie, which is .si,!: more wonderful than tits phenomenal i in t or ie tl pwers of tl-e chler brother. It is said 'hat Miser Har-y v.ans to take the stump f.r iv-nir "Pil-H'.-n. In aj.pe-.u it-ee Le is a tine, biight-1'H-ki'ig lati of fu'l bei'tt. though ::. titer sblt at:el dilica'e in build, aul with a;i specially l".;:e hcai and pair i f eyes. A N'OVET, P.CTSI.M.. The father of tho la'e Robert Thoin settled in BtrL r county about the year 177". He t-et'It d f.n tl o L'.nd known as "Thorn's farm,"' in tVi! -1-ittd township. If. w is on this farm wheio was erected " ri;oin"s Tei t." in which the first njcctit-gs of t !i t Pitbj tei i,-.n crir;ie gation were Lei J, and which was r. place of worship f r a number ff years, ami until the b.'U'O-agh cf Kutler was established and a store church elected on the sito now occti ped by the present .-piemi-el Miper strtutiiic. The first preacher was Rev. Mcl'iieri in. and it was dining hit ir.inistiV' thatthe !! r Thorn d ' d. A rtM -.1t of ground had I r i l.i'd "ff as a place of burial near tho "T"nt," l-.ut thete were m l.or.ds leading to ir. nor Lad the early s t I let s any s-uch ctive -ances as we row tia '. A chestnut trie was cat d.-wu ami a p : tion somewhat lot gi r tlmt the lxly taken form it and split in two pieces. Theso were di'g er.t in tl .-. n to sitqic'mt to adroit ti e bot!y r.::d then pinned to ether with v.O K'cii pin. A hg cliain was fast ened to one 1 1:!, a hot s., hitched to it and thus it wrs i"i::::: .1 tt.;-'-vgh athick. elr .so woods to the !..eo c-f bv.i tl. We ' n ay well imn-iirM the e-tilv sttileis, who re spected at'al esteemed the dec:-s -ed, w'i r.essiug the inu-t Tiient of "tie of their nut t. ber in this sinii.lo way and th.e huml-le ami sincere I'evoii- " i:!i wh eh thy w .rstii; -pel in tLo w il.lcrtic-s J;ho t"od of the.r I'athers. 15ta. t.om-si, and true, t' ey weie just the kind of men to battle villi tho :ois-.ii in'os .f a flu n frontier hie f.-- t co-r pe'enee. lo the IlUtfry .f P-'ti.r Co u it 'y. An English ri m Las immiti-tl an in genious contrivajcc for h t,!::. the fr, t warm. He prop -ses th.it nt v tn.tu .tl.i des.ies immunity frotn tLo pT: g.ie of c-'tl feet, (.ball b'lilil one of his iltl ! e-r.H ts in t4.e heel of Lis lant ano supply it w-'tii lHvi itent fuel. A sj ring in ri-i-:s ( j, eialtS as a bcliow-j ai:;l tlicte'.s lb.- wt:, hj t hit gin a nut siu-'J. so to spenK-. The i't vetitiou doe'S erctiit to the investor's l u niai'e inpi;!.-cs, '.-tit we aie not stite' ti-it it is an unmixed pc-d. A dcf-etKe f'm tiMcht cause a conflagration : tha j-i . mis.'ht b?coiT.e oveiheatvl and i iketi Hro at any tlni ; or a misc'iii vi-us stoker migLt c-al n;t with r u.-.u-. jte, and tl. a. theic'd be the f Xpeus,. ,.r a itev l.i att r, ami peihaps of ii new b--l. A man ;, we;iia one of tin so c o n : t v,. : cev in w.-t wa:Lci will inn the ii-,k wl Lc.cg iu Lot w ulir
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