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None but lawi do oth- I '' p.in't be a Scnlawa life's too abort. VOLUME XIII. EBENSBTJIIG, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1879. NUMBER 33. wlliPMW' ip, .f i.f !v k- T. I'l lie he it i tu aid 'lie I in t' in; the -x-i v;is fair lin? . vlth :)Vi" iiul'l Olil) hit:i ( r. :r"Ti t t:; ii'.ks ,,1 to rvi.P t n rif! riiu'l I fuU h I: is t- ur Lf'K't. r-. ;'.!:- : tlif n ur t 1. : V.y ! 4 i. V::"!. c i'.V liul:. .'i"l :i Cl't'"- 1. ii. ' t rr;,l h th.it I ('ft nr.. 1 ui. ,1 t!-' ; tb-'t r. a. -v.f'i i -ir ! If':.' ? lir-t .1 tMt ; ai'l' p 1. :l-t er -''' T ... 1 or 1 n' wits iuir "r :;i.'i';. ; r::- Jl z for f;' l.rot .J lie l A" TBLISHE0 FOR THIRTY-FOUR TEARS. I iv mi In. c 1 11 r ers , WHOLESALE AND RETAIL -OF rut, coma -AND - Sheet Iron Wares .AND DEALERS IN I SEATING, PARLOR M COOKING Shoot SSEotalSy AND- S H LSE-FLRMSHIXG GOODS CENF.RLLY. J"fllingf i it lllUOPPERiSIIEET-IRON ntoMPTLY ATTENDED TO. y-.27s, 2S0 ami 282 Washington St. JOHNSTOWN. PA. j IMOIM'OKATF.D IV IH,7. 'SCILY ON MUTUAL PLAN. 1 PROTECTION MUTUAL 1IHS0RMCEC0NNIT j OF EBEf'SBURC, PA. .1. ! .'y Five Aw-NNments in 2 Years. NO STEAM MILLS TAKEN. -00D FARM PROPERTES i j y-lE. I ALLY DESIRED. liEO. 31. ItEADE, President. j . IH IK, Svcretartf. i ' UT?. .if n. SI, 179 - ly. illsSifOHlCa Ebensburg, Penn'a. i r.3 I'lVAHI.i: OX IllM(M). pELEST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS. j '''-''Il LCA'iED. C3LLECT10NS MADE. 1 AND A GENERAL 1 KING EUSINESS TRANSACTED. '; ' ittcntion paid to luisinessof cor . r A. W. BITK ''-' f. Cashier. oved to Bank Building -'t H'.or to I reblhotr's ew Store. CARL RIYINIUS, Walclinaler ana Jeweler, EnrNcniinr da " rr hanl a lara. varied .rse varied and ela r:n:TI nl VTI'II!-.S t'T.tM'KS. l'f ( rn t.i- s i:v " til. st:s. I- ! r sale at biwer prices than ;'.' " :n t;.o cunty. Persons needing ' ' !!n k !1 (lo well to give him a cal u i'r rrj'airinif . iut. "'. .v.. an.j aatmlaction guarau- 't.'l pr.ee. . V. i-'VdOLKXI-ACTORV; MHT WiifiH Sl'Kdtl.TV. . .. " - ' I 1 ' irg r-'eently pureba-ed the . .i- t. T-'.iif.ri" a; oore?c ' '. '--'v .1 A. V. lie.. W. . . ' ' a:uri .n ef the poblie to . . ' I ' -e I ::!?:!; snid I'rt'-Tory m lot .'.' ' ,r ' -c t ':r? 'Se of li"inl nil .-'-n:il HDH.K. .!:"!i,rti1. ii tx ltlmil.ttt .'nla lam. ""."' rv:''" ; ' I an Evrr-iiE?f. Kf ' ' ' ??r h'l-tnev.. we ' ' " .-'.... f:i who tavor il. If (KKKK. M.V1N r VANS. ' - - " '.-f. KI. JAMKS. - C (!4licri. It "i 'I I r. mi Hiah strerf. here " 1 ' ''-.rh.-. 4 ':ism:ihtos. Vesting.. ' :; e-n , i:,.lr. w II at nil 1 ian.. an 1 full "int.- nrsinaio arti- i'lr-i fur f.i'irr aer.'s or vouthi ' "'rt.-M noti.-e.'in the e. M ,),,. owp.t jrinit I)noe ..' ' 1 ' 1 H c:e and the !,t of '";' '"a;i a Int T:nr eli.thin? 1 mad.-. cjr-A ,r,M Parn,.n. ... B. . OtSCH'iER. 8&NKS&8 Important Announcement! JOHN WAjSTAMAKEE, GRAXD DEPOT, Thirteenth Street, - - Philadelphia. rjll IK lnrpo inoreano of our 1iinf5 thnn far- tliis year makes it necesfttry to ENLARGE OUR PREMISES. We hare been cramped and crowded all the season In pome of our Department, and our only alternative Is to make some Important altcrntlons and additions to give us the needed room. The only time to do this is during August and September, the dullest periods of the year. To allow the builders to iret on rapidly with the work, some of our (roods must bo removed or sold. To save expense i or removing certain stocks, to prevent loss and depreciation from dust during the alteration, we have concluded to offer mimy of our iroods at or about cost. The whole of ourstM.'k will be found to be marked very, very low. THE GREAT ALTERATION SALE COMMKNCKS IMMKDIATKLY. Our prices are always at the very lowet point, and at this time, when (roods are advancing In prlco, we should not press our stock to sale but to iret the (roods out of the way of the EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS And Improvements to be made to the Orand Depot. It Is unnecessary to say that the nualiticn of our foods are the best. We do not mean to lose reputation by seUinjr poor or Imperfect goods. The well-known rules of Exehontre and lie turn Money observed by the Orand Depot lully protect our customers, and. besides, in building up this great business, we are very careful to keep good faith with our patrons who aro depend ing on us. "VVe onlyadd that It will be to the interest of the people in city or country to buy during this GREAT ALTERATION SALE. Silks, Dre Uoods, Trimrainirs, and everything In Ladies' and (lentlemcn'e Wear, whether in lftrjre or small quantities, promptly lorwarded by mall or express and exactly as ordered ; but even then, il not as expected, cheerfully exchanged or the money refunded. Write a postaj card, specifying what you desire, and samples, with full instructions (ororderlng. will be mailed you. postage paid, without any obligation to purchase if prices are not satisfactory. For Imme diate attention, addrcrs MAIL DEPARTMENT YOH SAMPLES AND SflTLlES. CilVTN'l) DEPOT, Thirteenth Street, Market and Chestnut, REAL FIRST-CLASS CLOTHING WANAMAKER & BROWN. I'lio tliongt ful and ili.-sc"iiiiiitir1 ilia Dortiori of the pnUlic who li rchase READY-MADE CLOTHING Villee witheven lint 1 i i t lo -oiii1ei-rt ion t h.it thoold houseof imainaker A- lirown ii-i in : iiowition to ei'v-o suporior sicl vant mz i itM patronw. M'Deo advantajeH t-otiisit in Mipplyina kom1h th.it are lii-.-jf 1 'l-opei-lv 3rlo TJ. ecoiiclIXjiteiiJil Slivtinlceii. miii-llCxcollnt. in Iit- 'The cut and litiisli of our Men'n :m 1 I Joys' Clot hing; isofachnr- acler to outrank the ORDINAHY CUSTOM WORK. We found out long aifo t. j- actual evprr!cn'-e that irarmcnts bought up from the Wholesale Stocks are by no means so reliablo :ia thise made up under our nwn p"rin:il supen ision. 'Neither will the cut an-1 general srvle (after weariiig) bear a comparison to our own careful make, liy making our own g.Kiils the PllODTJCEli AND CONSUMER Are brought in direot contact, and as a ennscciuenee the latter reap no small advantage. BOYS' FEil YOUTHS' CLOTHING. TliN form" a verv considerable portion of our business, nnd we are atified that we can con vince any one that wealwavs ofler the Hanilomest and Hest-'lni-hed (Joods known to the trado. LOW PRICES !). n"t alwavs mean good value. On this head we shall only say that when Style and U"ality are taken into account, we are not. under any circumstances, ever undersold, and seldom are the prices to which dealers fall as low as our first and only one tixed price to everybody, OUR STOCK IS Especially in thin icoods, suited to the present weather. Inviting a visit and recommendations from our friends. "We lU'inain, Very llexpeetfully. WAN AM A K Ell & BROWN, The Largest Clothing House in America, O -A.lv: IIVIl., - SHxtH ami Market, TIIK PITTSBURG- EXPOSITION" Will open nt their Bnildln and Grnnnds In the City of Allegheny, TIIUKSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1879, And r o 11 1 1 ii n r oprn, nay unit Erfalnt, fnndayiexrepld, nafll SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11th, 1879. dreater Attractions (hit year than any prevloat one. A perfect reflex ef the ARTS, INDUSTRY, CULTURE AND SCIENCE Will be displayed with a prodigality never before attempted in the city. XBW AAO HTAHTLIXG ATl'RACTIOXSI THE CCLOSNtl, JI AM MOTH, or Siberian Elephant, standing 19 feet high and 21 rot in length : together with an immense collect inn of Wild Itet and Skeletons. Minerals and Fossils, have, been secured at enormous expense irom the Museum of rior. Ward, at Kochc-ter. N. Y. Prof. EO. It. ROnnT.I.I the Ean om American Traveler, will give Illustrations eneb evening showmar the beauties ot Kump-an and American cenerv. the mi.'! t'-imons statuary of the t ld World, rival :i - ti e w "ii lr is beauties f nature, and the splendor of nations In great Taricfy. 'lt nM tltni N Mff, ''ham! i .m Shot ':m ar.l Rifle shots ot the World, will sho.it fdav and ev'nira) fn.ni Ski-tkubct lth to OcroTtai -in.l. A UKAMi SHOOTINO TOfBNAJl ENT f.-T I'nzes previous to and alter the engagement 'apt. B -a'.irdiis A Son. A gnarter Mile IUcjcle Trafk on the enlarged grounds has been constructed for daily tournament, and r-ices. The I leclrle I.isht will illunrinate Floral Hall and the Grounds each evening. The (;rrat Western riRliteenth Itelment ftnnd will play day and evenins. Ilnrnl Hall trans formed Into a fairy-like arotto. with ea?-ado, geysers, and alpine scenery, planted with the r.ir. t ol t'.owers and c-"tics. toriuing an enchanting scone. The UnllilliiRa tilled to overflowing with Exhibits, snrpassinir anything of the kind ever f eon in ritul'iirjr. A DEl'AKTMI'.NT OF I'IJ1UIC COMFORT, T'nder the management of a popular caterer, will supply at jiopular prices any refreshments that may be desired. KXcuiisioN- n at i :s. The u,.inager of the rarimis Kail nad centreing in I'itt"irg. apiireciaf inz the gTsnd work of the Ex x. -m Ion S-oetv. have ma.le I'NrHH'KbKNTKU " N' 'FSlt N.S In the reduction of fare, for ex cnruns, the particulars of whlcu will herealtcr be announced. (Jen era I Admission to the Exhibition, -CJiildren le.s than twelve years of age, - E. I". t it'Ni I, (Sen l M uir.-s. J. C. rATTF.KSON, . A. I'AKKF, AsVt Mavackr. SxcfiFT AltT. t'ity- Office, f uM'iuania anlc liuibliiip-, Voocl Street, I 'itt-sliurg:, I'a. ENORMOUS, THIRD 1879. 2,5 Cents, IS Cents. THE C'AMHIIATE. "Fathor, wlio travels our road so Into;?" "IIusli, tnv child ! 'tis the candidate !" Fit example of hitman woes, F.arly he conies and late he ernes ! He preets the woman with courtly grace ; He kisses the baby's ditty face ; ITe calls to the fence the farmer at work ; He bores the merchant, he bores the clerk ; The blacksmith, while his anvil rinjrs. He erects and this is the soikj he sings : "Howdy, howdy, how d'ye do? JIow is your wife and how are you ? Ah, it fits my fist as no other can, The horny liand of the workinsiuan." "Husband, who is that at the crate ?" "Hide, my love, it's the candidate?" "Husband, why can't he work like you t Has he nothing at all at home to do ?" "My dear, whenever a man is down, Xo cash at home and no credit in town,'" Too plain to preach and too proud to beg, Too timid to rob and too lazy to die. Then over his horse his lec;s he Mines. And to the dear people this song he sings : "Howdy, howdv how d'ye do? How is jour wire and how are you ? Ah, it fits my fist as no other can. The horny hand of the workingman." Brothers, who work early and late, Ask these things of the candidate : What is his record ? How does it stand At home? Xo matter about his hand, He it hard or soft, so it is not prone To close over money not his own. Has lie in view no thieving plan ? Is he honest and capable? he's your man 1 Cheer such a man till the welkin rings ! Join in the chorus which he sings : "Howdy, howdy, how d'ye do? How is your wife and how are you? Ah, it fits my fist as no other can, The honest hand of the workingman ."' THE LEFT HAND. The murder of Dr. Ilunston, of West Bench, England, in IS.i, presented some very unusual points of circum stantial evidence. Dr. Ilunston was a physician and naturalist, anil was wealthy. He lived alone, and was of somewhat miserly habits. lie had an illegitimate son, whom he had brought up with care, and who was apparently a worthy vouth. Dr. Ilunston "s house stood in the suburbs of the rural town, with trees around it. Very near to it was the residence of a lawyer named Terwhit. Dr. Ilunston was originally a very successful surgeon in London", but during an autopsy he cut his right hand with an operating knife, and to prevent fatal consequences immediattly submitted to the amputation of t he arm". The dwelling occupied by the doctor had been purchased many years ln-fore the date of the crime to lie narrated. Erom time to time he added to it until it was a peculiar structure. In a wing, reached by livo steps from the parlor, was the doctor's lwdroo?n : beyond that was his workshop, and beyond that again, is an odd angle, his study. Jam med into what appeared a passage just begun and left unfinished, was the desk in which the doctor alwayskept a quan tity of loose cash and some old jewels of great value, heirlooms of the Huston family, from wnich he was descended. 1 A coachman, a gardener, and a groom i lived in the yard right below the win- ! dows of the doctor's apartments, and he was in the habit of saying that they : gave ample protection to the dwelling; in that direction. In his workshop A LARGE BLOOD MASTIKK always slept, and the windows of the ! parlor were supplied with strong shut- 1 ters, carefully closed every night. ' "When lawyer Terwhit joked with Dr. ' Ilunston about his chances of being , robbed he was wont to laugh and say ; that it would require ery expert ; thieves to get an entrance, or, having got an entrance, to get out again safe anl sound. J It was the l."th of August, l-2.'5. ! Young Ilunston had returned from col- i lege and gone to London for a visit to ' friends. Lawyer Terwhit had sat with the doctor until '. o'clock. Then the latter saw that his .servant closed up the house, and soon afterward retired. : Dr. Ilunston was an early riser, and i when he failed to Ik? stirring at eight i o'clock next morning, surprise was ex- i cited among the domestics. liy ti : o'clock they wtre alarmed, and by It) o'clock resolved to send for lawyer Ter- i whit and ask his advice. The lawyer suggested the forcing of the door lead- ing from the parlor to the bedroom of j the doctor. This was done and the lawyer and the domestics entered. A DREADFUL SPECTACLE was disclosed. Dr. Ilunston lay on the bod in his night clothes. His arm was ' thrown out so as to hang out over the side of the lied. His head lay over the bolster, and his throat was cut from ear to ear. An ordinary kitchen knife, sharjH'neil like a razor, lay on the left side of the Vied, and in the bolster on the j same side was a gash. The doors thro1 the work-room into the doctor's room ! were oien. The dog lay jieacefully sleeping. The desk in the study had j been RANSACKED OK EVERYTHING of any value. There had been difficulty in opening it. ami the person forcing the lock had worked on the right side of the desk as it stood, for there were marks on the wall showing where lie had rubbed off the whitewash. The windows of all the rooms were examin ed. All were fastened except one in the workshop. Of this the cords had been broken, for when the broken sash was raised it fell with a crash. Kight below this window was a (lower led. In the soft mold there were prints of a man's knees and of his left hand. There were also marks as tho" his toes had struck the soil. The ser vant men who slept near the spot had heard no noise in the night except w hat sounded like the banging of a shut ter, and as there was wind they thought nothing of that. Lawyer Terwhit was a very shrewd man and a very clever criminal exiert. The authorities were duly notified of the dreadful crime which had been per petrated, and measures were taken to find a clew to the guilty person or per sons. The motive was clearly plunder. The perpetrator or perietrators know that the doctor kept valuables in his apartments. It would seem as though they knew where there was a defect ive window. The joints presented in the case were numerous and pregnant : THE I'OINTS IN THE CASE. 1. There was no possible means of ac cess to the apartments of the doctor ex cept by the window already spoken of. That this had lieen used was evident. It was twelve feet from the ground. There were marks of feet on the coping just Ik-Iow, as though some one had walked along it from the corner, cling ing to the windows, on purpose to avoid leaving traces. Ininiediatley IkIow in the soil there were n marks of feet, and no impression of any sort other than those already mentioned, namely: the marks of the knees, the toes, and the left hand. These, it was very clear, had been made by a person in falling, and were turned away from the window, the toe-mark being nearest and the Landmarks being furthest off. These impressions were evidently made by the murderer in his descent from the "win dow. The bottom of the window-sash showed on it stains of blood, w ith pie ces of skin adhering. How had the blood and skin come there ? 2. The throat of the doctor had been cut as the murderer stood at his left side. The knife was clearly drawn from right to left, and hence the gash in the bolster on the left side. The position of the knife on the left side of the bod, where the assassin had drojv iH-d it, also proved, that he stood on that side when he penetrated the deed. .'. On the soil outside of the window there were impressions of his knees, two toes, and the left hand only. The Ierson forcing the lock of the desk had leaned against the right wall, and evi dently worked with his left hand. The person who wielded the fatal knife had used the left hand, for the wound slanted upward from the edge, and was made from the left side. If made from the left side with the right hand it would either have leen straight down or inclined from the entrance of the knife downward. A moment's thought will show the justness of this reasoning. 4. Was the ierietrator left-handed V He might have been ; but in that case why did he not fall on the right hand as well as the left in descending, or rather falling, from the window. ". Had the murderer only one hand, and that the left ? That seemed to Ik? the fact, and then the remarkable coin cidence presented itself of a man with only the left arm being murdered by a man with only the left arm. ". Were the doir and the mnrderi-r old friends. If thev were, the savage j 1 least's quietness was accounted for, THE SrsrECTED SAILOR. Wisbeach is on the Wash, a small arm of the sea, and does a small coast trade. Seafaring men live there. Half a mile from Dr. Huston's residencelived one Joseph Ilarrell, an old man-of-war's man. He lost the right arm by the ex plosion of a gun when tiring a salute, and had received his discharge. He was in middle life, and the head of ii'gangof i smugglers who frequented the Norfolk ! coast. lie was a pretty hard character, j Suspicion fell on this man for having killed Dr. Huston from the fact of his j having only the left arm. He was ac-j tually arrested ami examined as to his ! wherealionts on the night of the murder. It was so clearly proved that he was J elsewhe re that all suspicion faded away, j Lawyer Terwhit found himself oxecu- ' tor of the dead man's will, and proceed ed to settle the estate. All the proper- i ty. with the exception of a few trilling legaci'-s, was bequeathed to James Ilun ston, the doctor's illegitimate son. ' This young man was notified of his. father's sudden end, and he hastened down to Wisbea'-h. He had recently i had a fail from a hor.:e, and sprained his right hand, which he carried in a sling. I lie did not stay af his late father's resi- donee, but at a hotel, and as soon as possible settled all the affairs of the os- j tate which needed his presence, and re- ; turned to London. lie listened to all theories as to the perpetration of the crime with deep attention, and only made one remark. When the circum stance of there having been found the marks of two knees and ten toes, and of only one hand, was mentioned, young Ilunston said : "Is is not just possible that those marks were made by rny father himself? He might have fi'llen, for you know he was fond of going among the tlower beds and examining the leaves, and beetles, and worms, and such like."1 This set Lawyer Terwhit to thinking. The doctor was a proverbially careless man in his at tire, and if he had fallen on the damp soil, as suggested, his clothes would show it. They were examined, but there was nothing to indicate that such an accident had happened. Hut the lawyer had suddenly acquired a the ory of ids own, and he resolved to see whither it led. AVATCHED. When young Ilunston quitted Wis beach he went to l'cterboro to await the London coach, for the time, be it re-memlK-red, was before railroads. The morning following, the coach started, with ilunston on the lox seat near the driver. On one of the rear seats sat a well-to-do farmer, comfortably but plain ly dressed. When the coach reached London the fanner hurried away, but not for far. Once outside the precincts of the old "Bull and Mouth,"" on Hol born, where the coach stopped, he turn ed and jiosted himself in a doorway. Soon voting Ilunston came out, ami was about to enter a cab which had been ; called for him. Suddenly a thought : seemed to stir Hie farmer, and he moved ; toward the cab into which Ilunston was , in the act of stepping. . In those days the number was placed conspicuously on the outside with the , license, and "the farmer had no trouble j in ascertaining it. Then he inquired ( from the people, in the hotel where the ; cab was usually found, and later in the j day sought the stable. The driver's j memory lK'ing aided by a donation, he ) told the farmer whither he had driven ; Ilunston. j "Drive me there, too," the farmer said, and in a minute he was on his w ay j to the famous hostlery, the (J olden ! Cross, at Charing Cross, A CONVERSATION. ! Once lodged there the farmer seemed to be comfortable. He met the landlady in her quiet little bar parlor, and in a , few days was a favorite. j "That seems a nice, quiet youth." the i farmer said, as Ilunston passed the bar j window. 1 Yes, very." the landlady replied 'Where does he keep his horses the farmer inquired. "Horses?" the landlady replied : "I never knew he had any."' "Oh ! I thought you said or it might be somebody else that he fell from his horse and sprained or broke his Avrist." the farmer said. "That is the first word I have heard about it," the landlady answered. "Still it might be so. for he was absent for a day or two, and returned with his hand in a sling, as yon see." "It must Ik? painful and awkward for a voting lellow like that to haA-e to go low like that to have to go around in that way." the farmer re marked. "It is better than having to lose the hand," the landlady replied ; "at one time Dr. A rdoble thought amputation would I e necessary, as many of the small Ixmes were broken."' "Clever man, Dr. A rdoble V" the farmer asked. "So they say," Avas the reply. "Vou .-co," the farmer said. "I've got a little tiouble 1 waut to cc-uouil a duc- tor alxnit, and I would as lief go to him as another." "Here is his address," the landlady said, handing the farmer a slip of paper. An hour later, the farmer was at Dr. Ardoble's residence, and closeted with that gentleman. "Iam executor of the will of Huns ton's father,"' the farmer said, after some introductory matters, "and wish to know beyond doubt whether you can save the young man's hand." "I've little doubt of it now," the doctor replied ; "though at one time I was in fear." "Have you any idea how he injured it ?" the farmer inquired. "None at all," was the answer ; "he did not say and I did not care to ask. Evidently some great weight lias fallen on it and crushed it."' '.Such as a heavy old-fashioned w:n dow4sash V" the farmer asked. "That's the very kind of a thing that would do it," the doctor said. When Lawyer Terwhit for he will lie recognized in the farmer got outside, he looked up to the sky and gave a great sigh and a sob. "My God !" lie exclaimed, half aloud, "to think the bastard he had tended so lovingly should have done it !" When the farmer returned to the (iol den Cross he was accompanied by two strong men. They stayed below and chewed straws while he went up stairs and spoke to the landlady. "Madam,'' lie said, "my name is Ter whit, and I am a lawyer. 1 c ame here to find the murderer of my friend and neighlmr, Dr. Ilunston, the father of the young man whom vou know. I have i found him." "Gracious goodness I" the landlady exclaimed. "Vou have found him ! and who is he ?" ARRESTED. "Send for Mr. Ilunston," the farmer said, "and I will announce it in his presence." Ilunston speedily attended the sum mons, and found himself confronting the farmer and two men chewing straws. 'Mr. Ilunston." said the farmer, "if you look nearer I think you will know me, though my side w hiskers have been shaved off. "Why, I declare," Ilunston said. i "it's Mr. Terwhit!"' Ilunston held out his left hand, but Lawyer Terwhit pushed it aside saying: "No, sir. Vou are charged with the murder of your father, and these men are here to arrest you. " 1 1 unston's face changed to purple, and he endeavored to draw a pistol from his breast jacket. Having only his left hand he was not export enough to do what he purHsel, and in an instant he was in the grasp of the officers. The young man's guilt was now all too apparent. He resolutely denied everything. In the lirst place it was proved that for some time he had lived extravagantly at Cambridge and run ir.to debt. lie had kept a mistress w ho had drawn largely on his resources, and his gambling proclivities had led him into other difficulties. IDENTIFIED. It was shown that on the morning of August ISth a person answering his description, though evidently disguised, had come down to Norwich by the Lon don coach. A blacksmith, whose forge was aVuit half a mile from Dr. Iluns ton s residence, saw a young man pass his place about o'clock in the evening. On the blacksmith and the driver of the Norwich ooaeli. comparing notes, no doubt was left that the man who came down from London and the man seen by the blacksmith were identical. Then there was the wounded hand. When it came to be a question of importance, Ilunston refused to say how ho injured his hand. It was clear, however, that on ojx'ningthe sash from which he had probably removed the catch a month before when meditating the crime he placed his right hand on the sill. The i sash fell, and hence the injured hand. In spite of his frightful wound, how ever, he wont on with the bloody work. No doubt he tied up the hand nnd then worked with the left. This CLEARED IT THE DIKFKTLTY, and accountt d for the left hand lioing used to cut the throat and open the lock, and also for the impression of the ! left hand only in the soil outside the , window. The voice of young Ilunston j had probably pacified the dog before the l window fell. He and the dog had been playmates for years, and the dog was ' not given to suspect wrong when his old friend was alnmt. To complete the ! chain of circumstantial evidence, some of the missing jewelry was found in pos session of a man to whom young Iluns ton sold it. Ilunston swore positively that his father gave him the jewelry on his last visit home, but Terwhit swore with equal clearness that he saw it in the doctor's hands the very day before the murder, when he wassearohing his desk for a fruit-knife. Ilunston was convicted of the murder, and hanged at Norwich. Love in a Cottaoe. A woman who Avrites from exiK-rience draws this pic ture of love in a cottage on a small in come : "A few months of rase and comfort, then they begin to realize they are saving vcry littfe. 'Retrenchment begins : they move into a smaller house; perhaps illness comes ; the little money laid by goes for drugs, and other com forts have to be sacrificed to pay the doctor's biil -. little helpless lives come calling for attention. The young iikh ther who could easily attend to her domestic affairs before now finds all her time taken up with baby. Duties that came easy then are irksome" now, but they must be gone through xvith, though the head ach.es and the limbs are weary, for a servant cannot be af forded. The husband, too, may have had. i his dreams of making life pleasant for the i woman of his choice, and f find himself straining every nerve to make both ends manhood eric? out ; meet : tuid, though hi against tae eternal grind oi urudgery lie lias o witness, he is powerless to avert it. So theA" slave nnd slave, tasting little of lib comfort. Do vou think 1 ant overdrawing i the picture" 1 would I were, for tin ! of some I know, and thousands I d sake not. I Lives of sacrifice are not easy ones to live, i and though Ave may in rll good faith think we could live them, and not be unhappy, few I of us are the heroines we think we are, when I tho test is applied. Living on 'bread, cheese I and kisses' reads Avell in romance, but the j r alii v is not pleasant. For life, even at its ,M best has its cares, and husband and wife of ten encounter trouble that require all the love and respect they have for one another to surmount them." Wise rn Otherwise. The wild oats of youth change into the briers of manhood. No one is ever fatigued after the exercise of forbearance. Kindness is the golden chain by Avhich so ciety is bound together. Let us always he cheerful : if life is a bur den let it be a burden of song. A houe without newspapers ami book- is like a hou-e ivithout windows. A LOST STATE. RISE AND FALL OK THE FRANKLIN. STATE OF Evorylvody knows that there are thirty-eight States, and that originally there were thirteen colonies, and most jieople can repeat the names of these States and colonies as glibly as their a'pliaWf: but we vt ntnreto say that very few have ever heard of the "state of Franklin. And yet history recognizes the existence oi such a state, ami one that, in its lay, enjoyed no small degree of celebrity. i It is well known that, after the Bcvo- bition, most of the original thirteen States claimed jurisdiction among them- i selves over the territory stretching in- definitely to the westward. The separ- j ate jurisdiction of each State was ill de- i fined, and, to avoid all trouble, to gie i the general government what seemed ; its due, and to assist it in throwing off the debt incurred bv the Avar of iude- pendence, the Congress of the Confeder ation requested tho various states to cede their claims to the General Govern- j ment. The matter was not definitely settled until after the adoption of the ; constitution ; but the state of North j Carolina attempted to cede, in compli- J anee with the request of Congress, its ; Western lands, which now form the State of Tennessee : and it was this at- i tempt at cession which brought about the coniplic.it ions that shortly afterward resulted in the brief existence of the State of Franklin. North Carolina ceiled, but Congress, vacillatingand vigorless, hesitated about accepting the cession. Having made the session, North Carolina gave up all interest in her liordor settlements, anil Congress refused to accept the change which North Carolina had thrown off, The.consequeiices wore serious for the fortunes and happiness of the Tennessee settlers. Their borders wore overrun with criminals and fugitives from jus- I tice. such as always infest a pioneer ; community, and yet the action of the , mother state left them without courts to assert justice and indict punishment, j They had at all times to be on their : guard against marauding bands of In j dians, and yet the were without a reg j ularlv-oonstituted militia for their de ; fense. They wore, in fact, cast ofts, and did what one would naturally ox i i-ct them to do under the circum- stances. The three northeastern counties of the Territory Washington. Sullivan and Greene lying in the northern part of what is now Eastern Tennesse e, then i the only well-settled portion fit" the State, met in convention at Jonesboro. Washington county, in August, 174. and aft or a long discussion in which the .Declaration ot Independence was read and cited as a lit example fur them to : follow, they declared themselves inde- ; h mlent of North Carolina. After a variety of fortunes the little State was i organize;!, and. in honor of Benjamin I Franklin, was cahed the state of Frank lin. ; The chief interest which the State of i Franklin has for us to-day conies from two or three striking characters: which its history brought into prominence. The principal of these, John Sevier, a ; Virginian by birth, but a Huguenot by descent, is one of the noteworthy char acters in the annals (if Tennessee. Sevier was the foremost man in all ; the councils and enterprises of the man i who afterward formed the State of i Franklin. He was commander of the ' Tennessee KilWiian at King's Mount 1 ain, and was chosen as the first Govern- or. and continued to be t he only Govern ' or of the State of Franklin. ; Sevier fought hard for the State, but after the first year its existence the 'tight was a losing one. for North Caro : lina. after the first abandonment of her ; offspring, suddenly t in ned about and re i asserted her jurisdiction, she had all '. the power, and had the communication i between the States been easy, and had she asserted her rights with v.gor and promptness, the revolt of the western counties would have been crushed in its incipier.cy : but the fact that these two conditions were entirely wanting neces sarily made the policy of North Caroli na a "waiting" on", and this policy, as sisted by fends and divisions in the State of Franklin, made a peaceful and ! bloodless settlement of the ditficulty possilile. Maj. John Tipton seems to have lx-en ' as unlike Sevier as it is possible for two men to be. lie had none of Sevier's i suavity of manner ; he was brusque and uncompromising a ma:i to whom it , was impossible to endure a rival, who ! aspired to leadership, and who was jeal i oiis of ail who contended for it with ! him. This man 1 ad supported the State of Franklin in its early days, but afterward, probably lieeanse he s;iav that Sevier's influence was likely to over shadow his own. threw the whole Aveight of his influence in favor of a return t i the jurisdiction of North Carolina. So rapidly did the fabric of the noAA State jierisii that, three years after its establishment, in the Avords of a recent tvriter uon the subject. "No Legisla ture at all con !il be assembled, and it Avas one of the duties of the Legislature to elect the Council, and a the Legis lature, at its last session, had failed to do this, the Council Avas soon a thing of the past, To complete this catvlogue of misfortune. Judge Camultcll, the bead ff the judiciary, accepted office un ', dor the f ioverr.ment of North Carolina, j Gov. Sevier was left a'mne in his official : dignity. Even this s"ie relic of the j Franklin Government Avould not. in the I natural course of events, remain long j exempt from the general Avreck. for the J Governor's term expired on March 1. i ITss, and it being a const it ut ional func tion of the Legislature to elect toe Governor, and there In-ing no Legisla ture to perforin this duty, it followed inevitably that after March 1. 17 there would be no Governor of the State of Franklin." ; sue:! were the facts, and ihe State of i Franklin thus ended. i Sevier finally licoamo Governor of I Tennessee, and for many years served ; in the House of BepresentatiA'es in Washington. 1 n ore of the primary schools of NiVm. , j Mass, a toad. or amis endeavoring to as- ' ! certain the extent of her children's; j knowledge of numbers. The question : j be ing ns';ed : "Won! 1 you rather have 'three paper bags A' itii two oranges in cncli, or two bag's avuIi three oranges in each ?" all but one little fellow expressed themse lves as a ithont preference. -The teacher asked this pupil lor his decision, but lie was persistent m his liking thre-e bigs with two oranges in each, reason, when finally giAen. l-mg: I could have more bags to bust." for his .s (e-t I Of t- THE SAMSON OF THF. WEST. FEATS OK THENoTH ATTK1 1'.UTI'.T) TO A WIcO-IN HALF-Dt'.EED. A Milwaukee eorrcsi indent of the Chicago Tim's writes as follows: Honorable Sat. Clark, of llniicn, wn irt town the other flay, and. after telling .or;t of his jnti resting reminiscences of th. "e-.r'y days when Jeff P:u is ceinniai iled m i-,,rt Winnebago, where Mr. Clark was rost sut ler, he said : "Bv the way, you have lieat.1 j f old Fete raiujuetTe '."'" The correc--(,n.- tun oii.i i:.;ini ioiiai:o. a ni on on. 01 1 1 : re liiaikable man, ni?d knew that Mr. C'-uk roe 'id tfive interesting fact- concerning him, and replied : "Oh, ves : ., wii the Sam-'oi of Yisein-in. Tl me something about him '."' 'Itather call lain." said Mr. Clark, "the Samson of the world : for without doubt lie was, in his prime, the strongest man who lias lived since the great gales of thr ity were borne away. 1 have never doubted the bible stories of Samson's strength since I first :iv ;om'tliilic of uliit lt.. lin ! iiiiotte's mnsch-s wito eniinl.1. if .biitiT " I I lien Mr. Clark meditated awhile nd r- : marked : "j imi-.t have known Famim tteas long back as lvhi. aJ1,t i think ti e er-t Mnni's i ever nnara oi ins priNtigjoti j strength wa tlil me by Jeff Davis: ah I : Jeff was a bright young 'otheer. You sec, j l'auquette, who vvas a ha:f breed. ue, to make the Aicinitvof the old fort his head . quarters, and every now and then, as m-ea-sin happened, we would see some new evi i deuce of his wonderful jxiwersof endurance ! or strength. He was not a heavy ninn or I rather, is n..t, for he i- tiil alive hi. t he I was finite slim, although his arms mxl !. l.'s ' were big with muscle-. I almost iIKh'ce to ! give instances of his feats, as rcnn i:i!st i them, they seem so incredible. The fu-t re i mailable exertion I ever saw I'aiiijiie'.t, make was to take an iron weight that had been used as n pile-driver and lift it c!"ar from the ground, and swing it aioiin 1 more easily than I could handle a hundred i"vi.l, and 1 have got some nuisele myself." tiot. a crowd of us saw him !o it. and we eot the exact weisiht of the iron. It was L'.eon. I , don't believe a man has ever lived w ho coul.l it except I'ati-juette. aiol 1 declare h didn't seem to exert himself much either. One flay a parly was proccoding.hv'hont ir the Fox, intending to go down the" Wi-c.'.n-ir.. ' When the portage came to be ma.!" a oV" of oxen was procured to draw tic boi't across. The boat w.i- cry bra v. ;, d be fore half the distance had been mad.- ..:ic i f the oxen gave out fviiiip!etclv. Fa-; t net' Avas along, and what do i u suppose he ."' "Picked the schooner up aiid thnw it across .'" ventured the con pondont. :.nx iotis to imply faith in anything. ! '-Well not hanlly that : hut he t... nd of the yoke vacate,! l. the plav ox and pulled against the other o, a the -lilt the novel team hauled the boat and fran-. ;"rn . all right, and Fete didn't seem to mi"d the strain half as much as 1 he ox did. Now, I know that these assertions seem like r.ii'ovr tough yarns." oil imt at all. Years r.g i I lica-d of : Fauqiiette s Wotiderfu1 strength, but never before had tip- opert unity of listening to a description of anything he ha 1 done ; ahead."' "Jlis mils, Is were !ike iron in their : ness. J ha-chad h:m bare his arm-to and I have taken a hammer nnd r.b t'O' eked w is f.'.t' .! to hickory nuts m j .n the nm-cles, and ;t j like clacking them en a stone. Or,. ; that 1 know of Paiiqnotte's doing, a wlii' li there were a number of wit!., i seems s,, absobitch imp ,s-i'e!e that o will believe the story jf 1 tell it, but true true as life." The correspondent i::fcrru:d.od the v, tor to ik-!;v him that implicit faith v matter ef principle with a truly g-xid p and that the tab- should be beheved am 'Well, it happpm-d at (Jrecn Itav. 1. body up that way had heard of Pete's and was anxious to see some ovi-h-nee ! It. Fhe Sampson had a friend who kept a ' eery stote, and in the evening unite a crowd gathered there in the hopes of seeing mi ex , hihition of strength. Fauouette came i'l in 1 his ijiiiet way, noted the crowd' and tool; in , the sit nation al a ghmce. A barrel til hick ory nuts sat by the counter, an 1 with , a Word he took up a l an.lf il of the dry . h ud lltlts. held tllclil out so all i-ould see. IMul , then ciiished them to pi-'ecs by sininlv . ; ,s- ing his harnl on them, bi-t as you m 1 u crush a handful of hivS- eggs. .), f I U Itl is and other oibccis at the foil saw 1 iin ih ;h.' same thing repeatedly, and there i m, (;. s tion of the fact that I'ai'i1t" realty di 1 r forra the wonderful feat as I have rlese'i'i.,.,! it. hven more.sfiai ge stories .f his go ; t strength used to lie common, hut I haw : ! I you only of things tint 1 myself saw know beyond doubt. 1 1 is powers of walking running." ct'. Avere almost equal to l, s strength, and he could probably go one hu!i le, d miles to Weston's sixty or scvetlt . I' will never be positively known how : "iu ii Fauqntte could lift w hcii he w as in his j i ;., but, judgingfroni the way in which he l: ;n. led the g, i-pounds pile'dri ver. it is reason able to srppoe that at that time he e. a; 1 have easily raised double, or nearly io n that weight. At auv rate, he ought ! go upon the record as the modern Sampson. ,.-, strongest man in the world." Peter l'au'jii'to has long been know.! a . a iiian ot almost sui 'ihunri-i strength. Mi l at one time, a number of years ago. Mr. Clark prepared and lead a paper bclote the Historical Society (".') in v.hich abiun! ut proof was furnished of the half-breed ha i::g actually performed the astonishing feats Mr. Clark fias here nscribed to him. In the in terest fit" what is rare and curious, the proof that is yet obtainable ought to U gathered and made a mottcr of lecord that could r..t be disputed in relation to the physical pow ers of the Samson ot Wisconsin. ' HEM m:k aui.e Feat r.v "II. W.," a riting ln-m street. Aberdeen, to the A.oi A D'M, Mans, '.;.. hal .1,1 - ri'il. says : ''The following remarkable f, it. pelf irm- ed hA- a Collie dog, mav I'rove of interest to some of your readers. About three weeks ago I decided to have a short holiday, an ! started per rail from Aberdeen, aeeomp inied by my Collie dog t lyde ei route to Hal' iter. From F.allater 1 walked to lir.i' inar, r sted : there all nighi. ami m t day went through ; Clen Tilt (tording the TatiiV) to Kiair Ath I ole. From lllair to I la naspid il. on the Highland line, w as t ra cr-ol the following day. Arriving at tin later place la'e nt , night, and finding no accommodation, I Avas gl.i l to avail nn self ot a Sift on an engine as far as Newtonmore, and remained there that night. Thence in the mormiig to F. .at of tJarten. and from 11 iat of iarteti to lree- burn Inn, Touiai in ( C miles from Jnver ' ness i. and here my journey ended, so far a the dog was concerned, as lie got out early ' in the morning, started a lar;e hare or rub bit, and that was the last (.f him. Imagine my astonishment when a boy 'u-o't-Clyde home this morning. The dog had ' Im-oti found near Not wood II.i'.l, Cr.'ts. and apparently itid not k'tow hi- w aj anyfiiith : er, for he remained there three days : 'nit, ' having a collar t n.. was then brought lu re. The dog is ju good condi' j.-n, nn 1 apparent -lv none the worse tor his j.,:;rne . Till- in e'ident is. I t'.dnk. oie-ol "the 11'ai-f (.t aor flinary cer heard of in c.eiu 'ction with flogs, for he n; usl ha." retraced his steps nearly two hundred m'l.-s. a. id that not wi1litan!i'i' bre-.ks in the imrne bv rail way travelling, i-odi'ii iting di-iereni places." l wo rivers, and is Wor.is or t-noo. -rumbling ki!N g.iodl'ess. Joveriiment begins "it home. ileal deeds su i i the thud of time- t .real ness ;, s i ( l,0: Words Wl I not 1 euig groai. ill inn h an I cost biu little. Orxid nature i "He herb. ( to, hi here is better ids h e Iron at l r. an ! best ;o last. mmhI words are g ,.,1. nid good deed at e better. ;rc:t souls hae wi is: feeble fines ha old', w'oh 's. :... r.-sil e V'loli'dV f'iieete.l becel . a source ef e-. ilt te -' ! t whom, ben Wi le i'l'ell led. nr
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