vHECAM3niA FREEMAN Advortisinj; It t. The lenre and reiiaMe etreulaiira of tua Can Mi eon-miend. tt to r-e fe-rrrnnle en jl'leriti'M of iflmin lm ltov-ors will r-e tc tersed at the following low rat: 1 Ineh. S Umi Ill' 1 S roooibs a 1 " e months a. ( I ' I year " ao f months oa " 1 yaar i os t " 6 months..... a no I 1 year 11 ao Vi eol'n 8 montbs in C " 6 months 'O U - 1 year an I 6 months 1-1 year 75 CO Administrator's and Executor's Not leas .... 1 Auditor's Notices "0 Stray and similar Notiars 1 Huslness Items, first Insertion 19e. per line : seek rahseqnenl Insertion 6c. per line. fwr R,9,luhrm, or prorrtAine of Itl, corporation or ,octy. ond communication d'ncnrd to rmll mttm txon to any matter of limited or in'avdvl feec, muif be jtaxdfor at advrrturmntt. Jon rRiri! of all kind tieat! an ein4itl ously.ezecatcyl at lowest prices. Don't yon forf el 1U rsv-sburg, Pa., by H. A. McPike. ntefd Circulation - 1,128 :ILl A DOOMING. MATCH IT f sfHfBIPTIOJI HATF.N. 03f year. cash in advanee 11.50 f not p'il within 3 mos. 1.T5 if nut d'J withio I mos. 2.00 if not p'd within year.. 3.26 .,,,1111 residing- outsldo the county ,(,.nionl per yenrwiil l'e charged to i':.,' ,'ivci' till tfrr above terms b de T:J,.,"' t'i'i who don't consult their H. A. McPIKE, Editor and Publisher. cnvlntr if? n-ivimce nmpi not EI IS A TlE!lA!f WHOM TBE TRTJTH Halll THIS, ADD ALL ARB SLATKS BKSIDK.' SI.50 and postage per year. In advance. '::.. s (;e I on tho srtm fo ft tins as those l..-f.' . P I..t t:.. i fact be distinctly understood B. paper before yon stop it. If P ' 1 j VOLUME XIV. . None out ioaiawnis no otn EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 12. 1S80. :r ' 'V, n t be a sen'iawa life's too short NUMBER 8. Zfitll a k , A A. lAv . I o F.EE R PR ! K K K H! EE KRR ! f K R ! fee it k :: Hie Lp est! VtEO. HUNTLEY i I KAS .V'JW US HAND THE J3KT, BEST s MOST VARIED stock or Plsivdwai'e!! liiovt's, rI imvoro, H0l -Er I "RMSHIXJ SSSSS in ijO'KI r-I'TDL) nil. till u n IK C VW1D Sr5SSSS S ssssss 1 f. . :var. in ! !n any r,e ei rabllsh rises -. i t if a?3 mm3 stsves nun' vs.-.-. 3 1 ; lis-! I ait"rns ; ijuilders'' IIsiiIavh to 1 .v;rv '."or'it.ni aa.l of l'ctqual.ty ; CARPENTERS' TOOLS! In 'he niar'-t. .k of Al?o, a "AjLF AND FOCIvET CUTLERY, ,,ljwre. Queonewnr. ll Tor-Platel I rt. V; ood ar. i tiVllloiv Ware, Wall Fa- I -.r.Tnin'ie ir. i nHeea, ICeTol werm. An. J ..li. l8. llorp Sltnee. Bar Iron, ICnll S.d. Horse alls, t'arrlaxe nolte, HI-. . v 'fill s. Urlnlttone, Steel Shot yfoald. Road dceopsj j ; 'j. "2i Machines, Horse Hay Rakes, ! forie Jfa.f Forlia, Rope nl I'lilley, ! jra nl'.l tnlori, aii.t h. lull line of llar- ; illnj lools. Al.j. a laro ajsortuaont of ;.;!,te, Floor and Stair Oil Cloths, ! r.irri.120 t"il ClotH, j ' m 1 :r. I.' T!f WI'D('1V Slf ADIN'O- . -. -H4l L FlXI'l-tl-S: I.ivespool AHT( IN f -J... in t: w.rM for I Miry an-1 Table j In" K'.'t'K SAI..T the ciieape?t and .- I.;v- S-.-u; LAND FLAS.TKU; . . .- 1 2-is Ft.'.Ml'S. of the best .lualltr ; i PA rt.M S.-VFtTV LAJII'S, which i - ' ! : ' 'nir.i.r.c!' WA'tl.iNS asd i A.-..S: !: l.ars-;t st-'k c. MILK CHOCKS of i:-i sal .r aci of superior ware t'tr of- ' ' - . :: r.;.er.'irB: : a full line of I'AINT ! "-":-. ;:' t-.- Jt .!-"'nMa aiftiltT: WIN, j - :;. is. ( U.S. PAINTS. TIUPJ'NTINE, : .:.:'. -lil--". v." . t- getLer With a large and cuta-- . .-.a i If; I F- T0HV(t) AND Si:!JARS, :'- ' cher u.f-.il nr.. I needful . .r.Ttr.;r.tf I harea't srot or can't z r.-.t w-..rt'.i buyiu. and what I j .'.v : .i:? ;jvj e rei'e.l on hs nasT- -.: :tT. v.h; tl.ey will invariably bo 1 AT BOTTOM I'RICMS!! v. ha 1 ie:r:y inisir thjj' sirsni- ; -.. e - r pi j-'di In my lin. I am en.it. led , : i..ers with tho very best la the ' . i ft i.'.eral sliare of y-ur patroo- ' ! : r -'-.r. . n :e i that the bes Is alwayi '. i:. 1 '.-.at i t.ev.r pnys to l.uy an lu- I - '.j !-N-.t-s the price is low. as It : "( that su-:a ao-1s arc alwas i .-..:o:;i. ' ; iVA). HUNTLEY. a, -:i n. 1?:?. I) K v. ym uon thirty-four years. ; -MjimilVi cturers, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, -OF mi, oom&i a n n heet Iron Wares "Xn DIALERS IX : ti . a . Parlor and Cook! ) X 1 ? X-V 'Kr m " ' t JLjJ-. V? V r i - . AND WliMSHING GOODS GENERALLY. ! Ill)iiiK- In YiPD! 4! 'MPTLT ATTENDED TO. 273.2S.Oand 232 Washington St. JOHNSTOWN. PA. ft!) SAWMILLS ,3 for the nr.ST ENGINES Hi SAWMILLS - '. r e;i as fr descriptive oatap.gu.es 1 price-, a hire's (,ItfiTrni& WEDGE, ZANESVILLE, OHIO. 1 r ... !.. K 'F- NVMBER OF THFSE AND UlJfi ui. In rnnvlronla. and are elrlnor 1 ' 1 1 t alo manufacture W'ly r.SOXSEh ANT BOILERS '"m 4 te ISO ITorsa Power. iRirrini xtf.ie. i 15 1 '' J 1 1 lr tome- Samples worth . "'-- T--oji a t:. po rt -! J ! -,i h elf. a fpi H !l A A T 1 S-IH ?E AAA TPl 5 k E A A I' 4 H Fit'. A A P all Mull miS UGKI IT IS fVII THAT oOO,000 IPIEIES OUSTS Witnessed the Crant Reception In Philadelphia. WE WOULD LIKE ALL THE Hen ami Boys to Call at Oak JHall Immediately antl Equip Themselves for the GOLD WAVES OP 1S80. The Sin?ularlj SMALL PRICES wc started the liinual winter Sales ??lth hare stirred all the stores to do thtlr best. But we eclipsed them all, and they know it, and the People see it, too. These are the 1'ricea for Our Own Carefully Manufactured Goods, not bought in the Xew York Wholesale Stores. A Tew left of the .-.- M vir, 1 1..... i Woven Backs). Our Price Net tirade Extra Sues la Blue and" Brown Worumbo BeaVer VjTcVcoats.'.I."."."! ' N est ( rrade A ( food St ronir Serviceable ciuth-Boi nd '(Vyercoat 1 '. . J-'eryday V"orklns; Overcoat Men ? All Wool Suits lhe'-Aubnm" I. J ". Suit. f.r Business and' IreFs"'.!!""'l"'."..'!'."""!"'.""."!" .V.;"tra-t-u:4l't,v "Sawyer" Suitings The Finest of C"a5siinerc Suits . Irre.-e Suits of Best Imported Clnhs reducedto ' ". jlen s r.Vf;rydy 1'ante All-Wool Bnsinefs and Iross Pants".".'.....!..".''"''""'."'.'"' ' I.itrn Fine Drepi Pantaloons formerly 10. 00," now". ".".". '. f-renutno Harria I'assimere Pants The Very latest Styles in Children's Overcoats'".'.".'.'."' ". The Double-Stiou'.dero.l Cape Royal Reversible Back Overcoats...'.'....".'"!.'..';.!.. , ,. , . ( Nicest Little Boys' Overcoats Oak Hall ever produced.) Children s Suits as low as r ' Higher Oradcj and More Elaborately f 'rimmed Suits".'.'.'.'."." '.".'.".".'"' '."! .' A Ureat Specialty In Boys' and Youths' Pants "."."."... - i miu im-KB. hi. ii vervwnfrfl WANAMAKEK & BROWN, M Hill, S. I COR. SIXTH The Largest Clothing A Hi TLi oooo O O o o o o o o o o oooo V T V V r V V V T EKE EE E K F.EE r. E EEEEE RRRRR CCCO OOOO R II O O O O K K C O O RRRRR C O O K R v O O R K O O O O K R CCCU OOOO HE&ttY WEtOHT CtOTHmC t NOW OTST i TVISTD, TO BE lSOLD AT PKIOES LOWER THAN" EVER, TO MAKE ROOM FOR A LARGE AMD NEW STOCK OF SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING ! IT WILL PAY YOU TO CITE 18 A f .H.I AS TIIF. GOODS SOW 131 STORE WILL ' POSITIVELY BE SOLD REGARDLESS OF THE ADVANCE IN PRICES, mieH ar, note at Uatt tS per cent, higher than lntt ytar. !S0 TAKE OUR ADVICE, AND BUY YOUR CLOTHING NOW, AND FJiOM I S, AT Till: I Young America Clothing House, I Corner ELEVENTH AVENUE and ELEVENTH Street, Feb. , ISSO.-tf. 5,500 WORTH OF GOODS CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, Ladies' Coats, Gent's Fiirnisk'g Goods. Ac. AT ATSI 33 ELiO"V COST. j S my emstantly Increasing business demands a wita air. v. .laiigaru 10 occuj.j mi ii.i c.r8.nu new ou-ines- nouse now n-ing completed on Fxbvbsth Avaxi b, Altoosi, into which I expect to more on or about the lat of March next, and wnlch win iiiiquesiiona luesiionaniy oe me nnesi rtore wishing the best of bargains In my line should give me an early call, as I do not Intend to transler any of my present stock to the new building If slaughtering price will enable me to dispose of them. ! Krerv person, inereiore. who hiuh i.j u h-juui muni 1-i.taurr umn nipt can oe ontainea eisewnere should psT me a Tislt forthwith, as this announcement Is no humbug but'a positive fact. I am boa ad to sell IT low prlrts will do It. Thanking my many customers for the kind and liberal patronage heretofore conferred cpon me, and soiieiung a continuance ana mcrvnae oi &m. Yours, rienpeot fully. CHARLES SIMON, l-e.'so.-ti. Corner Elerfuth Arenne and Thirteenth St.eet, Altoona, Pa. "DON'T YOU FORGET ITT Don't forget to bear in mind and keep In remembrance that GODFREY WOLF HAS INAlGlRATEn AT HIS "PALACE OF FASHION," NEXT DOCK TO THE POST-OFFICE, ALTOOXA, PA., A GRAND CLOSING-OUT SALE OF HIS ENTIRK STOCK ABOUT 910,000 WORTH OK OVERCOATS I WINTER CLOTHING Generally, AT COST AND LE3S THAN COST. Call Early and Get First Choice and Best Bargains! i As the Goods will Vositively be Sold at a Sacrifice, - . . . . . '4. lev '.'J . gw l SKfr.i-.r Yin XT'01 SALT. A tip-ton he.ivv n;io- X: horss or lirht rm hor PFDDtiTN'l VV.VO. 1y. AoMrr Of). Hi'NTf.Ky. iwi.n'h.i-'r. Feb. IS. mv-tf. filree Boner me a-m-easea eoior ine year rnena. The Iarret Batter Bnyers rerommetid its use. TaoiiM-Jiof luirrmeo iir IT IS PERFECT. tcd by allthe het i reentries. warded the Irte. n.lo-a! iipiorca at J. T. puiry Fair. ii tcur drner'.r t or wrrhant for It; or write toaik what 1 1 1 wl at Itrw.. wt"r to P-t It. WFIIS, RlminfWflll CO, PmHrlm. Rni-1ln.fow.Yt- . ... It s-'-i I I t- u I n. rAI'.iiiri in 18.00 lfl.SO 12.00 10 00 8.W 1.00 10.00 li.oo 15.00 20.00 25.00 1 60 ( 50 I 00 S 00 1 00 8.00 I 40 too 3.50 &HD MARKET, PHIUD1 House in America. OXJR A AA 111 lilt T T T T T 888B88 S S SSS3!JS 3 S 88SSS A A A AAA A A A A A A T ALTOOXA, PA. TO BE SACRIFICED. much larger store room, I hare made arrangements room in me .mountain t. ttr. Meantime all persons id ma mture, i. rumain r 2 SH. Wbs! WE have a larg stock of T.atik Mtssu' and Csaansw'f HIIOKft, which wewUTieit at Tory Itw prleee beta-ecu now and ftelstof Ajril e. ?. S. B A fltCCK A HBO. THE OLD PRINTER. A prtntor stood at his case one night. In his office dark and drear. And his weary sight was dim as the light Of tho monldy lamp hung near; The wild wintry winds were howling without. And the snow falling thick and fast. But the printer, I trow, shook his locks of snow. And laughed at the shrieking blast; lie watched the hands of the clock oreep round. Keeping time with Its snail-like tick, As he gathered the type, with a weary click. In his old, rust-eaten stick His hairs were as white as the falling snow, And silently, day by day. He beheld them with grief, like the autumn leaf. One by one, "passing away." Time had cut with his plow furrows deep in his brow. His ebcek was fevered and thin. And his long Roman nose could almost repose Its bead on his gray-bearded chin ; And with Gngers long, as the hours stole on. Keeping time with the clock's dull tick. He gathered the type, with a weary cliok. in his old, rust-eaten stick. For many long years, thro' yoys and thro' tears. That old printer"! time-battered face, So ghostly and lean, eight and morn has been i seen, Earnestly bent o'er bis case. In a few years more death will look np his form. And put It to press In the mould. And a stone, o'er the spot where they lay hlan to rot. Will tell us his name and how old ; And his comrades will light that old lamp by his oase, And list to the clock's dull tick. As they set tip his death with a solemn cliok, In his old, rust-eaten stick. CIECUaSTASTIAL mooF. CCRIOCS CAPES IN THE HI9TORT OF CHIME. Terhaps the difficulties in evidence, direct and circumstantial, wera never more strong- j ly sho"vn than In the once celebrated case of ' the brothers Boom convicted, In Vermont, ! 1819, of the murder of their brother-in-law, in 1812. It appeared in testimony that the latter, a half-witted fellow, and a burden to the family, was last seen in a field with the two men, and there had a quarrel, in which ho had been struck on the head with a stake j and somehow had finally disappeared from ; the locality. Seven year9 after, some bones i supposed to belong to the missing man, one i of his buttons and his knife were found near, in an old cellar In yie field, and the men were arrested. Upon their trial they both confessed to the murder, and gave the details, and then im mediately appealed to the Legislature to commute their sentence to imprisonment for life. This mercy was only granted to one of them, but tho interest of certain gentlemen being aroused by the case, careful search was made and the missing man found in New Jersey, brought back and recognized by all his old companions, and the men were set free. The explanation of the singular con duct of the accused is found in the bad ad- vice of their friends, who, knowing thatpub i 11c opinion ran strongly apainst them, and ! thinking it would hang them, advised them to the confession in order that they might . get the lighter sentence of perpetual impris I onment. j It was said that tho French naturalist, Cuvier, from a single fossil bone, could de j scribe the structure ami habits of extinct j races of animals. But bones neither lie nor I mistake, while witnesses do both, and no i court is infallible. The cases are numerous on record to show that even the senses can ! not be implicitly relied on, even when the ; veracity of the witness is unquestionable. : In cases of highway robbery a inan's face lias been repeatedly sworn to from the ' glimpse got from the light of a gun or pistol ! flash, whereas accurate experiment shows ! the thing to be impossible. In a case of theft, j a woman swore a certain gown was her9 ; i beitig asked by a juryman to try it on, it was i found not to fit at all, and she confessed her j mistake. The fact was that the prisoner hart ; Ptolen the gown from a neighbor, though this , was found out only after the acquittal. j Another woman, being robbed, swore a cer i tain black pocket-book, found on a man ar- rested for the crime, was hers, which would l have sent him to the gallows had.not a coun j tryman found another black pocket-book ! while reaping, and hastening to the trial, thi same witness finding all, and her very money ; safe, confessed she was mistaken, and the accused went free. A signature to a certain j deed was sworn to by respectable and honest parties as Lord Eldon's, but Lord Eldon came into court and swore that he never at- ! tested a deed in his life. In a celebrated I Scotch trial for forgery, intricate and far-j reaching, and which involved the title to one I of the best estates in the realm, half a dozen engravers swore that certain numerous let- j ters were written by different persons, though i the prisoner afterward confessed he wrote ! them all. His conviction was partly insured j by a sharp lawyer noting that, In all the doc- j uments, certain words were curiously mis- : spelled, and. on the prisoner beine required. ! In oriAn enurt tn wrltA tbit.A n-nrHa 1 1 a i y-i i . . i ... - j . , - - . .....wv - - -' , ..v ". ' ( spelled them as they were written down in J documents purporting to have been penned j by many different persons, living even in half : a dozen different generations. In a murder trial a piece of rope found near the victim was sworn to as the same kind of rope as a piece found in possession of the accused, a bit of testimony which would have hung him had not a ropemaker examined and testified that one piece was twisted to the right while the other was twisted to the left. A half dozen witnesses swore that they saw a cer tain person at a certain hour of the clock. Being asked to say what time it was by a clock in the court room notone of them could tell. This was a case of downright lying to prove an alibi. An eminent English lawyer swore positively to two men who, he said, robbed him in broad daylight. It was proved that at the time of the robbery they were so far off as to make the thing impossible. Shortly after the true robbers were taken with the stolen goods on them. The prose cutor then confessed his mistake, and isaid to have given a money value to the men whom he came very near sending to the gal- lows. Besides, accused persons often behave I very strangely, even when'innocent. Some run away, whicn, tn oirt times, was neia so surea proof of guilt that in England, incases of felony and treason, flight carried forfeit- urc ot goods, whether innocent or guilty. It is now in pioof that Innocent persons, timid or ignorant, or ill-advised, when accused of crime often run away and do a great many other foolish things. Daniel Webster, in the famous murder trial at Salem, spoke the fa mous epigram, "Suicide is confession," a rery fine sentence, but very poor law, since even innocent persons, falsely accused, bavc often died by their own hand to escape further misery. Sir Edward Coke tells of an uncle bringing up his orphan niece, and had had her lands for fee until she came to six teen years. When eight or nine, her uncle correcting her, she was heard to say, "Oh, good uncle, kill me not." At this time the child disappeared and could not be found. The uncle, arrested on suspicion, was bailed and told to find the child. Fearing what might happen to bim if he failed, he brought another child, very like the true one, into court. The cheat was discovered, and the man hanged. But the child had only run away Into another county, and been taken in by hospitable strangers, and, at sixteen years of age, came back and claimedier property. Now. proof, as defined by the lawyers, is only a presumption of the highest order. Cunning Is but a sinister or crooked wisdom, while human nature in the court room often turns out to be a singular and fallible element In the attempted equation of justice. We cannot be surprised, therefore, that so many innocent persons have suffered, and, upon the whole, the wonder is that so many of the guilty are punished. Yet, appearances may be very strong against a man, and yet he be innocent. In 1827 Thomas Gill was convict ed in England of stealing two oxen. lie had just firished his apprenticeship to a butcher, and, after paying a visit to his uncle in the country, in order to save expense, was trav eling on foot back to London. About three o'clock In the morning, ho met a man, riding on a pony and driving two oxen, who offered Gill five shillings to drive them to London, and agreeing to meet him on Westminster bridge. The young man, willing to earn an honest penny, agreed, and was arrested shortly after, with the cattle in his possession, by the owner in hot pursuit. Arrested, lie j gave a false name to conceal his situation from his friends. He was pardoned as he was on the point of being transported for life. The simple fact was, that tho real thief, hotly pursued, had taken this cruel way to rid himself of the cattle and the crime. In France, a young man was in the service of an old woman and had a key to her house. She was found murdered with a piece of his cravat near her, and a lock of his hair clench ed in her hand. He was arrested and exe- j cuted. But he was innocent. An intimate friend, who afterward confessed, managed to get an impression of the key, picked up one of his old cravats about the house, and, combing the young man's queue, had scarce ly abstracted hair enough to make the lock found in the dead woman's clutch. Sad as it sounds and Is, the history of the law shows a list of cases where the innocent have died a shameful death through the mistake of justice. These legal disasters have had for their basis not so much an unfair or heartless trial as a failure to weigh wisely the peculiar circumstantial evidence involved. But, on the other band, justice oftentimes'seems aid ed either by good luck or the Divine wrath of the gods themselves, in detecting crimi nals. In 130 the body of a man was discov ered in England who had been murdered 23 years before, nis widow identified his re mains from tha skull, his shoes and a carpen ter's rule found with the bones. The mur derer was then found and executed. In 1S13 a Cornish peasant was found murdered, and his body dragged under a hedge. It was shrewdly surmised by the detectives that the murderer was a stranger in those parts, since a native would have been very likely to have concealed the body in some abandoned coal mine, many of which were in the same field. From this slight clew mainly, they arrested an Irish soldier whose regiment had lately come there and on him they found the dead inan's purse. He was executed. Three ruffians, murdering a poor Italian boy to sell his body, were largely convicted by their giving away some white mice which ttie re was every reason to believe had belonged to the unfortunate child. A sailor was mainl y convicted as an accomplice in a brutal mur der in a London bawdy-house from trie fact that the victim's hands were tied behind him with what is known as a sailor's knot. Where a man was shot by a ball, the wad on the ball was shown to be half of a certain ballad, the other part of which was found in the prisoner's pocket. Convicted. A man assailed by a robber struck him in tho face with a key. A mark on the prisoner's face corresponded with the wards or divisions of the key. Convicted. In 1752, in England, a man and woman from within a certain house gave the alarm that some one had entered and murdered an inmate. The dew on the grass outside the house was found to be undisturbed. The living inmates were convicted. In lol, in England, a man was tried for the murder of another, where the struggle had been severe, Impressions were found, in the clay, of a man whs had worn breeches of striped corduroy. patched with the same material ; but the j patches were not set on straight, the ribs of j the patch meeting the hollows of the original corduroy. The accused was shown to have his breeches patched thus, and this greatly j aided bis conviction. Dew and snow have i often helned to track the murderer, and I An,. ... a l,a nnvlol.A1 sn ,t nalUrol.. 111.111 11 1 CW1 11(, J 1 ' V 1 i n 1 1 1 -.4 V ' 1 .llv ll.l I" .... ..... peculiarity of whose shoes, or the curious way in which nails arc set in them, aided conviction. A man arrested in his bed, who claimed to have been there all night, was found with wet, muddy stocking on. The night was wet and the ground outside soft. Convicted and executed. One of Kaulbach's illustrations of Goethe's Reineke Fuchs shows us the fox murdering the hare. It is a solitary place, a field and close by a shrine with its cross. But curiously enough, the artist has put eyes into every head of the full wheat, which bends in the breeze, and every flower at hand is made in likeness of a dim, human face, which beholds the deed with horror. The fact thus symbolized is that nature, in all its attributes of weight, size, color and condition is, after all, the head detective of crime, and every secret murder leaves its mark behind it, which rightly interpreted of men, metes out detection and punishment to the criminal. "Murder will out," because, on most subtle ways, the ciicumstance of murder being accurate, when wisely inter- I preted, confess and denote with unerring j finger, and "dead men do tell tales" with a I hundred tongues. That the guilty sometimes j evade detection docs not prove the contrary. remaps tne oi a story or inc murcierer, ru- ! gene Aram, whose horrors' have passed into English literature, assisted by the genius or j Hood's shadowy poem of that name, best il- lustrates what has been said of the curiosities of circumstantial evidence in criminal causes. Aram was born at liamsgiil, Yorkshire, in 1704, and, though the son of a gardener, was of ancient British family and brilliant genius. With scant education in youth, and serving for a time as book-keeper in Loudon, yet he managed to make such progress in learning, especially In mathematics, that be was in vited back as schoolmaster to his native village, and there married, nis wife seems to have been a woman of easy virtue, and to have made his home unhappy. But he de voted himself to the study of the classics Ilebrew, Chaldee and Arabic and became so much of a philologist as to bestow much labor In comparing these languages with the ancient Celtic. While engaged apparently in such honorable undertakings, he found time, Feb. 8. 1744, with the help of a con federate, Richard Houseman, to murder one Daniel Clark, a shoemaker, and conceal his body. His motive, as Aram alleged after his trial, was revenge on his wife's paramour, but it was in evidence that he got from his crime the whole of Clark's wife's dowry, to the amount of 160. In fact, Aram looks, when viewed in the most candid light, to have been ono of those hypocritical and cold blooded villains of ability who wometimfs appear to disgrace humanity. Fourteen years after the murdur, a peasant, digging stones for a limo kiln In the neighborhood, found a human skeleton two feet below ground, with the frame so well kept together as to enable it to be seen that the body had been bent and buried doubled. As Clark had never been seen alive since 1744, and as Aram's wife had formerly thrown out dark hints that he had been murdered, public buspicionvH arouseu, ana an inquest was held upon the bones. At this inquest she was summoned, and testified that she ! thoueht Clark was murdered by Aram and Housemau. When brought before the coro ner, Houseman was in great confusion, trembled, changed color, and faltered in speech under examination. The coroner de sired him to take up one of the bones before hira, thinking to see what further results would follow. Taking up one of the bones, bo said : "This is no more Dan Clark's bone than it is mine." These words were so pronounced as to convince those present, not that Housman believed Clark was alive, but that he knew very well where his bones lay. (If the reader will read Houseman's words aloud, with a stroug emphasis on the word this, he will see a little what thev might be made to mean. ) After some eva- slons, he finally broke down and confessed that Aram and he had murdered Clark, and though these were not his bones, they might be found where they had buried them, at dead of night, in St. Robert's cave, near where the other bones were found, adding I that Clark's head lay to the right in the turn I at the entrance to the cave. Upon search, a ' ske'eton was found exactly as described. ; Aram himself was arrested while acting as j usher of a school at Lynn in Norfolk. Upon j trial, Houseman was used as king's witness, i Aram defended himself in a written speech j full of fact and antiquarian lore, In which, j with a skill beyond most lawyers, he probed I into the weak points of the circumstantial ! evidence against him, urging the great un- certainty cf its being Clark's body, since St. j Rob ert's cave had been a place of hermits, ! who very likely, according to their custom, I had buried there. lie was convicted and i afterwards confessed his crime. Failing in in an attempt at suicide with a razor, he was nursed back to life sufficiently to be hanged and his body sent to rot in chains at Knares borough, near the scene of bis crime. So , perished one of the most learned criminals of the world. Crime comes and sometimes may strike ' very close to anyone of us. It is, above all, i necessary that punishment also should be ; made swift and sure. This result is reached by careful and scientific study of evidence, especially on Its circumstantial side. Upon a wide view of the history of crime in this , world, it may be safely said that punishment, though slow, is sure, and of justice, what the . old Greeks said of God, that he comes with ! leaden feet, but strikes with an iron band. ! It happens very curiously that, just at ; present, English law circles are greatly ex i crcised over a pamphlet discussion between . Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Mr. Tay ! lor, author of a standard treatise on the law ! of evidence, upon a novel decision of his ! lordship, by which, in a late murder trial in ! London, a bit of circumstantial evidence was excluded on grounds that attack all I legal precedents. His lordship, who is ' known to have both tho ordinary virtues j and vices of a beef-eating, "by jingo" Eng- lishman in excess, seems to have lost both his temper and his case before the bar of the legal profession. At least, such is the opin ion of American lawyers who have read the pamphlets of both disputants, just in hand. Boston Herald. The Game of Fifteen. Sometimes It is a song, sometimes it is a theatrical play, over which people become wild, and now it is a simple game with blocks over which many men of many minds in tlie eastern cities have become excited, and some have even gone crazy. To show how easy it is to puzzle th brain, here Is a short description of the puz zle, which is commonly known as the "Came of Fifteen," although It Is variously called "Boston," "Solitaire," 'Gem," "Butter- i CUP, etc The puzzle consists of a square box, into which are fitted fifteen round blocks num bered consecutively from 1 to 15. There is room for four rows of four in a row. The absence of the sixeenth block In the box af fords room for the movement of the others. The game is to disarrange the blocks and then to bring tlie numbers into consecutive order by shifting them into place without lifting one off the bottom of the box. The intricacies of this apparently simple exercise aro startling. A mathematician who reports the result of bis calculation states that the number of possible movements is l,307,C')-4,-308,000. There are said to be a number of combinations that are either very difficult of solution, or, as some believe, impossible. The general combination arrived at is this : 13 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 13 15 14 Having failed to get the right combination in the horizontal row, the player arranges the blocks in vertical columns, when the fol lowing solution is reached, said by some to be the correct one : 13 U 13 9 10 11 12 ,-; 6 7 8 A sixteenth block accompanies the game, and by adding this the game of thirty-four, or the game of sixteen, is produced. The object of the player is to so arrange the blocks that the sum of their numbers will be thirty-four when added horizontally, perpen dicularly, or diagonally. The blocks may be taken out and changed in whatever man ner the player chooses. This is the solution : 1 15 14 4 12 6 7 ! 3 in ii a 1. 3 3 K, the wise or rirrKE!. He sat and araced with a placid uilen And a cheerful and confident smile At the little square box with the "gem fifteen," And he said he'd bet bi pile That he could finder It out rlab.t thar ; So he jumbled the block! abf.ut. And then he remarked : "It's simple, I swsr. And I reckon I'll work It out."' So ho tackled It sharp for an hour or more, And his hands he ran through his Lair As he jumped rlzbt up and fearfully swore. And his eyes bad a maniac's glare. That he'd -be dashed If the dash, dashed foot That Invented this game was here. He'd smash bis dash, dash, dashed skull And chaw off an end of his ear." ITlut after another hot hour had Gown The bead drops down 'gnn to roil. And he rared In a way that, the people all say, St-uek terror to each watching soul. For Thirteen Fifteen Fourteen alas ! Were all that he got lor his pains. So he frantically swallowed of poison a glasl And with a bullet he bored out his brains I A MODEL DETECTIVE. Wo had been two days at work on the rasp, and han not vfn found a starting rM-ihif In fact wllen v,e met to cornr,are nott9 f,n ; tlie second eveniTlgi it was discovered that ! th tota, knowledge was precise- i ly what it was before. The difficulty was, it was such a common place crime. It Is when criminals do some thing unusual that their detection becomes J comparatively easy. There is something then to work upon. The experienced detec- j tlve is at once able to limit the fieir. of his j inquiry. "Who," he asks himself, "was j able to contrive a plan like this ?" And of I ten the very ingenuity exercised to conceal j the authorship of crime mofrt clearly points i the way to its discovery. But when It is a thing any one of thousands might have done, i it is easy to see how greatly the difficulty of j laying your hand upon the real perpetrator 1 is increased. ! That is just what made the case in hand S so hard to unravel. Mr. Dame was a rich. retired merchant, in the habit of carrying a liberal supply of money about him, and giv- en to wearing expensive jewelry. He occu- i 1 pied an elegant suite of bac helor apartments, j where he was found murdered in his bed ' room one morning. The manner of the crime was as little mys : terious as its motive. The victim'sskullhad been beaten in with some blunt instrument, and his money, jewels and watch had been j taken. Any brutal ruffian might have done such a deed. There was no particular clew to follow ; and even Orville Thorns, confessed ly the shrewdest man on the force, whose , scent on tlie trail of a criminal seldom proved ! at fault, was obliged to acknowledge he ; didn't see his way. Mr. Thorns had won his spurs a year be- ; fore, as an "amateur, in ferreting out a for- j midable gang of forgers, around whom lie : succeeded in weaving a web of circumstances that left not a loophole for escape ; and when the whole band, after their conviction, w-ag-ged their tongues against him, denouncing him as their ringleader, who had betrayed 1 them for a price, there was a general smile of derision ; and, as a mark of the public confidence in Mr. Thorns, he was given a place on the detective force, of which he i was a member nt tlie time of Mr. Dame's murder. The mavor offered a larce reward for the apprehension and convict ion of the murderer. Mr. Thorns noticeably pricked up his cars at this. He was not the man to let such an amount of money slip through his fingers. "He'll get it !" more than one of us whis pered. And sure enough, on tlie third morning, when we met again for consultation, Mr. Thorns sauntered in, with a smirk of satisf tc tion on his face, and took a seat at the table. The rest of us had nothing new to tell, whereat Mr. Thorns seized contemptuously. "I have a report to make," he remarked, quietly. "Fioceed, sir," said the chief, eyeing him 1 rather sharply . "At an early hour this morning," Mr. : Thouis continued, T noticed a shabbily . dressed man enter a pawnbroker's oflice. Ills manner was lurking and .suspicious. 1 ' followed him in, making a pretext of wi-di-' lng to pawn a ring I had taken from my fin- ger. Whilst higgling with ov;e of the clerks, I I kept a keen eye on the man I had followed, who was offering a handsome gold watch to another clerk. '"Let me see it,' I said, turning up my lapel and displaying my official badge ; and placing myself between ye. customer and tho door, 1 took the watch from the counter and examined it. Inside the case was the ! maker's name and the number. No doubt was possible, it was the murdered man s watch, of which I had a full description. "The man gave no satisfactory account of j himself, or his possession of the stolen prop j erty, and, of course, I arrested him at once. The case is a very simple one. The murder, it is conceded, w as committed in tho perpe- tratiou of a robbery. Part of the property taken is found in tho possession of the pris oner, a circumstance which ho fails to ex plain. What proof could be stronger ?" "Bravo !" we exclaimed. "The reward is yours, Mr. Thorns. It's a fortune you might afford to retire on, and give the rent of us a chance." Mr. Thorns beamed ber.Ignantly, and the meeting broke up. I was or. the point of leaving with the oth ers, when the chief touched my arm and de sired me to remain for a few minutes. Our brief conference was strictly confiden tial, and it would not be proper to reveal it hero. At the end of It, I hurried out. My way and Mr. Thorns' lay along the same street ; but he had so much the start that I was barely in time to see him enter his own door. Bright and early next morning I was met by our chief at the principal railroad depot, whither 1 had cautiously followed a gentle man in an iron-gray wig and blue goggles, whom I lost no time in pointing out to the chief. The latter approached ar.d touched the gentleman's shoulder. "A word w ith you, if you please, sir," said the chief. 'T'm in a great hurry," returned the other ; "the train is about startii.g, and I really can not afford to miss it." "Do not force me, Thorns," the chief whis pered, "to strip you of your dissruise here. Your plan was cunningly hdd, but, unlucki ly for you, it has not succeeded. It was a shrewd device of yours to fe ign intoxication night before last, and take an exposed seat in the park. From a concealed fpet I .-aw a thief approach and pick your pocket of a watch, as you designed hould be done. As he hurried away you rose anrt followeit stealthily, whilst I, unobserved, kept insight j of you both. We all three sauntered up and ! down till morning cami, and the sht.ps be gan to open. I saw you and your man enter a pawn-broker's place, and there is no doubt that it was Mr. Dame's watch which was of fered to be pledged, and quile as liit'e that It is the same whirh I saw taken from yr.r.r pocket by the thief whom you would bow bring to the gallows with the double puipoee of screening yourself and secuiing the prof fered reward. The object of your present journey, doubtless, is to convey to a plane of safety the rest of your ill-gotten gains." The T:ew prisoner was taken to a private room and searched, and on his person were found a number cf articles readily identified as having belonged to Mr. Dame. And o, after all, it wp.s our model detec tive who was tried and hanged, a:;d rot the wretched pickpocket who had been purpose ly enticed into stealing the teil-ta'.e watch, that he might suffer for another crime of which be was not guilty, and enable the real culprit to escape and pocket the reward. A MODEL MEMORIAL. flaim tai k rc covr.nEs or a PEsrKRAT KEW-SrATF.r. MAN. I About the liveliest memorial ever sent to Congress comes from the Wisconsin Editors and Publishers' Association a-king for th remission of all taiiff c'.uties on chemicals and such other dutiable articles as enter into the manufacture of paper. In transmitting the resolution passed l y the aforesaid Pub lishers Association the President, Mr. Georg W. Peck, addsin the memorial : "Now that you have read the resolutions, it is & sup- I posable can that you will feci that your next ! duty is to throw them into the waste basket. ! In thejname of 4.1,000,000 people, ba the same more or less, I ak you rot to lose your cue, j but ruminate, as it were, and think over th I highway robbery that is beinc practiced j upon your unsophisticated constituents by ! the type founders, who are foundering tho newspapers. As it is now, they stand in the entrance of the editorial sanctum and take tlie money that comes in on subscription, and only allow the publisher tho cord-wocd and farm produce. By the protection your alleged honorable bly affords them in the way of tariff, they grapple the throat of every newspaper in America, and ay 'Keno, while the newspaper publisher can only re turn his chips to the deale r and say 'O, hell!' Every art'cle that is iisp." ry a i ewspaper man, except second hand ulster overcoats and liver pads is protected by a tariff that makes the cold chills run up his spine. "Another thing that the Association did not pass any resolutions about, but which they probably will at the r.cxt meeting, if there nie enough of them left oufsj.le c f the P'or houe t meet ncra'n before thev meet on that beau' if r.l sh : e, is the r--ce:.t ac;j..n of the manufacturers i f paper, v. ho aw endeavoring to screw down the lid of the newspaper oofiin which the typo founders are preparing for the grave. In the last three months, by their own sweet wii:, they have run the price of paper up a'most a hundred per cent. There is nothing to pre vent them from doins it. as foreign manu ! factured paper is kept out of the count rr by the tariff. Even- article that g es into tho construction of raj paper, except bass wood, sweat and water, has a tari:T v.: it. The ' s')f1-1' the aafcrtida and blue mass, r what- ever is ue 1 to deodorize undershirts an-1 cast eff drawers, so that they -jt ii! smell good in a newspaper, l as a corn on it in the shape of a tariff, so tTint the paper manufacturing three-card-moi.te chaps have an excuse to bleed newspapers to the la- t chop. What the r.ewspaper men want, and tl-.oy believe it is not an unreasonable .Ionian 1, is the removal of the tariff en type, on ra?;s. on papfr, and on all chemi'-als used j;: the nir.'-.i:f;ic? :re of paper. In a tariff on ras,s (if there i no tar iff on rags yon bad better put one n, unless i you remove the tariff on the rest of the stuff; if a tariff is a good tiling you can't have bo I much of it) for instance, whom do yo-.i pro : tec t? Nolx.dy but guttersnipe ran pickers, i and old mai.ls who save up ran to buy sr.uff, and tin peddlers who trade tin tl;pp rs r.t:d I skimmers occasionally for a (lour sack full of bad smelling rags. Are the rag pickers and i old maids your principal constituents? ' "The newspapers of the country believe i that they are entitled to some consideration 1 at your hands. They ar in many instances ! the instruments thrc nh which many of you i - - ' have attained the positions you now hold, j and they nevf r have pot much of anything t from you except patent office reports and agricultural documents. They have set up nichts for you And done ditty work t!-t may bar them out of all paiticipation in the chariot races in the golden streets of the New Jerusalem, and now they demand that you protect tl.em from the ravages of the type founding and paper making gtashop pers, before it is everlastingly too late. "Not being one of the 'd d literary fellers' i so touc hingly alluded to by the great Senator Simon Cameron, tl is epistle to you Cm in- thians maybe a little raw, aud not as polish ed as It should be, but it tries to represent the feelings of the new spaper men of Wis consin in language that the wayfaring mm, though a diabolical idiot, can understand, and It means business. The newspapc rs are desperate, and while they don't want to go i on tho war path, they feel that they l ave beers ravished about nough by the different tribes of beneficiaries of the government. If you great men will pass a bill to gi-e us ! relief, you will strike It rich, and don't you I forget "it." A coTF.vroTi at.y has the following bit of advice kept at th heed of the column that merchants may not forget it : In all fwr.s where a newspaper is published, every busi ness man ought to advertise in it, even if it is nothing more than a card stating his name and the line of business in which he is en gaged. It helps to snEta'iii the paper, and lets the people in the di-tanoe know that the town is full of business men. The paper finds its way into hundreds cf places where a hand biil cannot rcr.ch. A card ir.'-i paver is a traveling sign boaid, and can be s-r on by every reader. "Think of these things," in 1 let your light shine. ''SAM.'yoa are not honest. Why do yen put all the good potatoes on top of the raca sure and the little ones below ?" "Same rea son, ,ah, dat makes do front ob your house all marble an' dc back gnte chiefly slop-bar'l, sah." It's a sharp rat thut gnaw- its own fod-'er I t knows its own fat. .it.)
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