©be ®eat*e gfmwftat. BELLEPONTE, PA. TheLnrgeatXhekpoit and BaitPapar FUBLMUID IN CENTRE COUNTY. ROBKEI) OF IIIH ALL. SWINDLED OUT OF $7 (X) WITHIN TWO SQUARES OK I*OI.ICR HEADQUARTERS — TIIF. DETECTIVES Al.l. AT SEA. .loliu Lister, an old Yorkshire farm er, from somewhere not fur from Leeds, arrived at Philadelphia on the Lord Gough on Monday, of last week, accompanied by his wife, two daugh ters, a married daughter and her hus bond, George Furniss. Farmer Lister is edging along the seventies, and is, as well as is his son-in-law, as inno cent as the softest-fleeced lamb that ever cropped the green sward of the West of England. The immigrants were bound for Kansas, and their sole worldly possessions consisted, besides their baggage of a draft for 87(H) on Drexel A Go. in the pocket of the old gentleman and a five pound note in the pocket of his son-in-law. It was late on Monday afternoon when the family trooped ashore front the steam ship. Right opposite the American line wharves is an ancient beer saloon, the pretentious title of hotel upon the sign of which attracted the attention of Farmer Lister, and hither was he hieing when a backman waylaid and halted him with the information that the alleged hotel was only a beer-shop. Then the hackmau was asked where a good hotel could he found, and in re turn he said that the St. Cloud was just that sort of a place. Mr. Lister said that he had heard of the Bt. Cloud from some friends and bargained with the hackman to drive him there, and all the family got in side the hack except Son-in-law Fur niss, who sat with the driver. Possi bly the driver did not pump out of the young Yorkshireman all about the moneyed resources of the family, but probably he did. Instead of driving to the St. Cloud the hackmau brought | up at the American Hotel, giving as an excuse that the St. Cloud was full. : There was no loose change in the new i arrivals to pay the fare ami the hotel clerk paid it. Mr. Lister incidentally mentioned at the time, in the hearing of the hackmau, that he would have ; plenty of money in the morning, as he | had a draft for 8700 on Drexel. On Tuesday morning Lister's draft ! and Furniss "fi-pun" note were cashed. Late in the morning Furniss and his father-in-law were sitting in the read ing-room of the American when a man, described as tall, well-dressed and red mustached, accosted them and soon ingratiated himself with them by stat ing that he was bound for Topeka, Kansas, the destination of the immi grants, and mentioning several places and people in Yorkshire known to his listeners. Finally he suggested a walk and Furniss took a stretch up Chest nut iStrect with him. When near the Continental a man stepped up and demanded of the new acquaintance the payment of a bill of 850. The latter produced a check for a larger amount, which the dun declared him self unable to change, but still insisted on payment. Furniss was appealed to and said that he had only 825. "That will do now," said the dun, "and you can pay the balance to-morrow." Fur niss passed over the money, the dun went his way, and soon after Furniss found himself alone, and after a long wait, became convinced that he had been swindled. He returned to the American, and went out with his wife without saying anything to Father-in law Lister about his loss. He had scarcely got away when into the read ing-room walked the rcd-mustached stranger, who, walking up to Lister, asked where Furniss was, as he wanted to pay him 825 he had borrowed up street. The old gentleman said that "the lad" had gone down the street with his wife, and the stranger sug gested hunting them up, as he wanted to pay back the money right away, because he was going to leave for To- Cka that eveniug, and had yet a num r of bills to nay. The old York shireman and trie swindler then left the hotel together. He was taken somewhere within two squares of the hotel and passed a fountain on the way, probably near Fifth and Walnut Streets, and, under pretense that his companion wanted to pay a hill, was enticed into a well-furnished office, where two men were sitting at a desk. "Is my bill ready?" asked the swind ler. "Yes, here it is," and a bill for seven hundred and odd dollars was poked at him. He then produced a check for 81,000, and asked for the change. "We can do nothing with the check to-day, because it's after bank hours," said one of the office men ; "it's good enough though." The recollection of the old farmer, inno cent of all knowledge of moncntary transactions, is somewhat misty as to how he came to do it, but this fact he knows, that he was persuaded to loan the swindler his 8700, his all, until the latter would return to the hotel, where, as he alleged, the proprietors would cash the check. Then he found himself on the street with his com panion, then alone, then conscious that he was pennyless. By dint of inquiry he made his way back to the American, where he made known his loss. The Mayor's detectives were at once apprized of the swindle and there the matter remains. The hope- less and strauded strangers found im mediate sympathy and assistance in the generous proprietor of the Ameri can, and more maLerial aid from the St. George Society and the agents ami officials of the steamship line. They departed for Kansas on Thursday night. iIKIRS TO MILLIONS. A FAMILY THAT I,AYS CLAIM TO A LAKUK I'AItT OF IIALTIMOKE. From tlio St. Li 111 in Ulolw Duniixriit. The Boogher family of this city did not celebrate the 150 th anniversary of Baltimore, although, in view of recent developments, they had not only a perfect right, hut were to an extent obliged to display a proper apprecia tion of the age, growth and glory of the Maryland capital. The Booghers of St. Louis are descendants of Wil liam Richardson, who was a compan ion of William lVnn, and who orig inally owned about 750 acres of the best portion of what is now the city of Baltimore. These acres lie on both sides of Jones' Falls, which divides the city into two parts. The land was leased at several times in several par cels, for a uniform term of ninety-nine years, the express stipulation being that the title was not fully vested in the lessee. About seven years ago the oldest of the leases expired, and three I years ago the latest was void. The I St. Isjuis Booghers having made a ; thorough investigation of the matter, have come to the conclusion that they are entitled to all this property, and have made arrangements to prosecute their claims in the Maryland courts. Eminent counsel has been retained, and as soon as a link or two that will strengthen their claims has been found, the prosecution will begin. The por tion of Baltimore within the territory claimed includes a large part of the best business street". It extends from Jones' Falls to Gal vert and Light streets westward, and to Exeter street on the east. There are three parcels to which the heirs expect to prove their claim—one of seventy-five acres, another of 275 acres, ami another of I •')(•() acres. Baltimore street, the prin , cipal thoroughfare of the city, divides : it running east and west, and Jones' Falls north and south, Included in the claim is the City Hall, a marble building completed four years ago at a cost of 82.5U0, (HM) ; Front street i Theatre, the Hun iron building, the I new American building, part of the j ('arrolltou Hotel, the site for the new I Government buildings just purchased, the United States court house, the Custom-house, the Merchants' ex change, about a dozen banks, blocks of fire warehouses, dwellings ami bus iness houses in great numbers, and the Northern Central railroad depot. The value of the improvements alone upon this part of the city is very great, and, with the ground, is estimated at from 81,<>( hi to 850,000,000. Twin brother* beared Apart. John and Daniel Miller, twins, were horn in Adams county, this State, in 181b. When they were four years old their mother was left, a widow. Being destitute and in ill-health she was un able to support herself and children. She sent Daniel to live with friends in Washington county. John found a home in Westmoreland county. Dan iel grew up and became a miller. John learned the blacksmith's trade. They never saw or heard of one anoth er after leaving their mother, and each supposed that the other was dead. Over fifty years ago John Miller aban doned his trade, and became a toll gate keeper on the Butler turnpike, in Allegheny county. He holds the po sition still. One day last week he went out of his house to collect toll of nn old gentlemnu, who was driving through the gate. A neighbor of the toll-gate keeper stood by. He made the remark that the traveler and the keeper looked enough alike to be twins. This brought about inquiries on the part of the two old men. The traveler proved to be Daniel, John's twin brother. He had lived for years in Bradford, hut a few miles away from the toll-gate, in another county. This was the first meeting of the brothers since they were four years old —sixty years ago. ♦ A SiiiKular Combat. A traveler in South Africa witness ed not long since a singular combat. He was walking along one morning, with his eyes on the grouud, when he noticed a caterpillar crawling along at a rapid pace. Pursuing was a host of small black ants. Being quicker in their movements, the ants would catch up with the caterpillar, and one would mount his back and bite him. Pausing, the caterpillar would turn his head, and bite and kill his tormentor. After slaughtering a dozen or more of his prosecutors, the caterpillar showed signs of fatigue. The ants made a combined attack. Betaking himself to a stalk of gross, the caterpillar climbed up tail first, followed by the ants. As one approached, he seized it in his jaws and threw it off the stalk. The auts, seeing that the caterpillar had too strong a position for them to overcome, resorted to strategy. They l>egan sawing through the grass stalk, fn a few minutes the stalk fell, and hundreds of ants pounced upon the fallen caterpillar. He wan killed at once, and the victors marched off in triumph, leaving the foe's bodv on the field. AN ELEPHANT HUNT. From tho Han FritiiclfMo I'iml, An exciting but luckily harmless incident, which happened to W. W. Cole's circus, now en route for this city, is thus detailed by W. It. Haydn, the managing advance agent. In going from Nevada to Colfax a part of the circus went by rail a distance of seventeen miles, while another part went across the country, which is only twelve miles. In the latter body were the elephants, three of which got loose and went on a trip on their own ac count. Three days elapsed before they were recaptured, though their tracks were closely followed by men on horseback. During their pedes trian jamboree they went through an Indian camp at night, hut never woke up a single soul ; tore up fences, went through orchards, consumed quanti ties of fruit, took a run of three miles down the railroad track, and as far as known were not seen by anyone in the district; which is well settled up. Uprooted fruit trees testified to their love of fun, and the number of fences which had to he rebuilt after their "bender," is incalculable. They appear to have been good natured all the time, but to have traveled mostly at night und rested during the day in the woods. What the feelings of the Indians would have been had they discovered them waltzing through their camp is hard to say, hut after a three days' hunt over an area of thirty miles, which they traversed backward and forward and in every direction, they were finally tired out, and sub missively returned to their profession of eating buns at the bands of small boys and standing on their hind legs for the instruction of the public. A Duriinr Miner. Ktt'iii theerature only forty degrees he low that of boiling water, and suffi cient to have roasted him in u very short time. —— - Pistols and Piety. From the Now York IIOIAIII. The latest recorded attempt to make deadly weapons useful to the cause of religion was eminently unsuccessful. I his is greatly to be regretted, for the ease was the first on record in which the motives of the leading actor can not possibly be misconstrued by any on ®' , Btor y l that a young North Carolinian, moved by tho appeals of a preacher for money to prosecute church warfare against Satan, desired to con tribute ten cents, but, being int|>ecuni ous, he attempted to raise the amount on a pistol. The capitalist appealed to began to examine the security of fered, the pistol Avent off, so did the owner, with a bullet in his brain, and the world remains in perplexing un certainty as to whether the church got the ten cents after all. This sad af fair should not discourage other men from trying to help the good work along; nevertheless it should warn them that the only absolutely sure way of keeping pistols from making trouble in the house of the Ixird is to leave them ut home. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. A REMARK A III. K STOKY FROM TIL V L.LL'H OF INITEI) STATUS SENATOR UAN YORIIKES. United States Senator Yoorhees tells the following interesting story of a re markable trial! 1 remember once defending, at Crawf'ordsville, Ind., a man named Owen, indicted for the murder of his wife by poison. It was twenty odd years ago. < >wcn was a respectable farmer in good circumstances, and a consistent church member. He had several children by his first wife; his second wife was childless —a circum stance which peculiarly affected her mind and temper. She would not permit his children to reside with her, and compelled him to find a home for them elsewhere. She had frequently threatened suicide in consequence of these troubles. One night Owen was awakened from sleep to find her dying. He called in assistance and sent for a physician, hut she was dead before any one arrived. Her sudden demise excited suspicion and three days after her burial this was communicated to him by a friend, who further informed him that arrangements had been made to disinter the Body ami investigate it. Owen was greatly agitated at this intelligence, and, after a short pause, replied : "If this is done, and poison is found in Kezia's stomach, (his de ceased wife's Christian name) I will be accused of her murder, convicted nml hanged. But I am as innocent of it if that tree," pointing to one uear by. That night he transferred all his property to a son, disguised himself, and tied the country. The body of his wife was exhumed and an autopsy had. Kuough strychnine was found in her stomach to kill a mule. There was a universal expression of horror at the discovery, and a iurge reward was offered for the arrest of the fugi tive. After some months he was found in Canada, where he was living under an assumed name. He was brought to Crawf'ordsville in irons, and it was with difficulty that his ex ecution by a mob could be prevented. Joe McDonald (now my colleague in the .Senate), Jim Wilson, once a representative in Congress and subse quently minister to Venezuela, and myself defended him. There was a formidable prosecution. Lew Wallace, Judge Gregory, and others appearing against him. It was proved that a short time lie fore Mrs. Owen's death her husband had purchased strychnine at a drug store in the neighborhood, telling the druggist that he wanted it for poison ing rats. But he asked that it should he changed to him, a fact upon which we laid great stress in the argument, insisting that had he entertained a criminal design in buying the drug he would not have put the evidence of the fact ujKin record. A daughter who was visiting her father's house when the poison was brought home testified that he handed it to Iter step mother in her presence, cautioning her to be careful with it. A brother of his wife, who was greatly embittered against him, and was a witness for the State, admitted upon cross examina tion that Owen's treatment of his sis ter was invariably considerate and kind. This was all we had to base a de fens*; on. The odds were fearful. There was the remark of the marked agitation of Owen when first informed of the suspicions existing against him, his admission that if the post mortem examination showed that poison was the cause of his wife's death he would he accused of administering it and hanged ; his purchase of the ]>oison ; his transfer of his proj>crty and his (light, all combined, nearly irresistibly led to the conviction of his guilt. "Mr. Voorhees," he said to me, "how ever darkly things may appear against me, I am not guilty,' ami I believed him. We fought the case like tigers upon the reasonable doubt which we deemed the cvideuce had not excluded, and won it. Such an uproar that followed I never witnessed. Owen was taken to Wilson's private residence, pursued by a crowd crazed with disappointment and thirsting for his blood. Wilson, McDonald anil I stood at the front gate with pistols in our hands, and cheeked the approach of the mob un til Owen could drupe from the rear of the house in a conveyance that had been provided for him. It is the only time in my life I ever saw McDonald with a pistol. He showed an unmis takable purpose to use it if uecessary. Owen wcut to Texas and died there, I presume, as I hare never seen nor heard of him since. His wife bad committed suicide. He knew it, but preferred to keep the fact to himself to avoid scandal aud exposing her. He AVBS a weak, but an honest man. For his safe deli\'erancehe was indebt ed to a capital jury—men who could be neither bought or scared. The foreman had served the county in the State Senate, others had held office, and all were persous of consideration and influence. MILLER* make poor party meu. They are generally bolters. KNOW MY HOI HILL? From |lm Hm, Fr*tif ind prmt. As the overland express AVOS snort ing through Alameda yesterduy, on its way to New York, the engineer suddenly whistled down hrnkes, the conductor frantically shouted ami jerked the signal line, and with many u jar and squeuk the long line of cars was brought to a stop. The cause of this "sudden fetch up" was a fat old lady with a red fiiee ami a green para sol, who had planted herself squarely in front of the engine, ami was mak ing the most frantic signals for it to pause. "What's the matter? Anything on the track?" said the engineer ex citedly. "Nothing hut me," said the old lady, stiffly. "Has there been a smash up? Is there —a drawbridge o|en ?" "Don't poke fun ut tue, young man, I want to see the proprietor." "The what ?" "The man who runs the thing—the captain—or whatever you cull him." "What do you want with the con ductor?" 9 "None of your business. I want to see the head man —the boss—and to onc't." "Well,ma'am," said the functionary, running up, watch-in-hand, "what's up? What can Ido for you?" "You go through Chicago, don't you ?" "Why, of course. What of it?" "Know my son Bill —Bill Skinder son—there!" "No. For heaven's sake get off the track, you old—" "Don't sass me, you red nosed goril la, or I'll inform on you. Deary me, I thought everyboby knew my boy Bill—prominent man there —runs the biggest fruit stand in town, and— hands off, you rascal. Don't dare to tech inc. I'll move when I'm good ami ready." "Well, blank yourblanknation eyes, hurry up. What do you want?" "r. F<.tr'§ llraUli Monthly. Many erroneous impressions prevail about the pulse as indicative of health or disease, a common notion being that its beatings are much more uni form than they really arc. Frequen cy varies with age. In the new-born infant the beatings are from 1.50 to 140 per minute; in the second year, from 100 to 115; from the seventh to the fourteenth year, eighty to ninetv ; from the fourteenth to the twenty-first year, from seventy-five to eighty-five ; from the twenty-first to the sixtieth year, from seventy to seventy-five. After that period the pulse is general ly thought to decline, but medical authorities differ radically on this point, having expressed the most con tradictory opinions. Young persons are often found whose pulses are be low sixty, and there have been many instance's of pulse* habitually reach ing 190, or not exceeding fifty, without apparent disease-. Sex, especially in adults, influences the pulse, am] in woineu it lieats more rapidly than in men. Muscular exertion, even posi tion, materially affects the pulse. Its average frequency in healthy men is, when standing, eighty-one ; when sit ting, seventy-one; when lying, sixty six per minute ; in women of the same age and in the same positions, ninety onc, eighty-four and seventy-nine. In sleep the pulse is considerably slower than in wakefulness. In certain dis eases, such as acute dropsy, for in stance, there may be no more than twenty or thirty per minute. Thus, one of the commonest diagnostic signs is liable to deceive the most experi enced practitioner. Fancy Prices for Coins. Some unusually high figures were obtained for lare coins at a sale held last week in New York, under the auspices of Mason A Co., of Philadel phia. A silver dollar of 1794 brought 145, and the same price was obtained for one of 1838. A dollar of 1*39 fetched $35 ; 1852, $39. In half dob lars the prices realized were: 1790 $38.50; 1797, $34.50; 1815, sl4* Quarter dollars, 1796, s2l ; a dime of 1804 brought $24; a half-dime of 1812, $95; one of 1805, $24 ; a proof set of 1858, $42. Of the half cents sold one of the coinage of 1796 brought $20.50, while others were sold at from $2.66 to $1.12 each. Among the Confederate States pieces a copper cent of 1861 went for $8.50: a half dollar of 1861 for $6, and a C. 8 A great seal for $3.60. A silver medalet of Jefferson Davis was valued at iust W W Ten of wS and foreign coins and medals, gold silver and cooper, ancient and modern were disposed of at the sale. TIME. Ninety year? hence not a single man or woman now thirty yearn of age will be alive. Ninety yearn! ala-! how many of the lively u<-torn at Pre-ent on the stage of life will make their exit long ere ninety yearn shall have rolled away? And could we he sure of ninety yearn, what are they ? "A tale that in told," a dream, an empty nonnd that posset h on the wing of the wind awav and is forgotten. \ earn shorten an man advances in age. Like the degree* of longitude, man's life declines an he travels to ward the frozen pole until it dwindles to a point and vanishes forever. I- it possible that life is of so short dura tion ? Will ninety years erase all tin golden names over the doors in town and country, and substitute others in their stead ? Will all the now bloom ing beauties fade and disappear? all the pride and passion, the love, hope and joy, puns away in ninety yearn and be forgotten ? "Ninety years," says Jleath; "do you think I shall wait ninety years? Jiehold, to-day and to-morrow and every day is mine. \\ hen ninety years are past this gk of running the Jarrett A Palmer train. He accomplished the feat in less than schedule time, but the strain on his system was so severe that he never re covered from it. He continued on duty, and was called upon invariably when n trusty man was required, but his health Invame more precarious, and he was finally compelled to re linquish his position." Women ami tallies. In I lie days of our father.* there were such things to I>e met with as men ami women—hut now they are all gone, nml in their place a race of geutlcmen ami ladies, or, to be still more refined, a race of " ladies and gentlemen" has sprung up. \\ omen and girls are among the things that were. Hut ladies are found everywhere. Miss Martinenu wished to see the women wards in a prison in Tennessee, and was answered by the warden, "We have no ladies here at present, ma dame." Now, so far as the ladies were concerned, it was very well that none of them were in prison : but then it sounds a little odd—ladies in prison! It would seem had enough for women to go to such a place. A lecturer, discoursing upon the charac teristics of women, illustrated thus: "Who were the last at the cross? Ladies. Who were the first at the sepulchre? Ladies." On this modern improvement we have heard of but one thing that beats the above. It was tbc finishing touch to a marriage ceremony, performed by an exquisite divine up to alj modern refinements. When he had thrown the chain of Hymen round the happy couple be concluded by saying, "I now pro nounce you husband and ladv." The audience stuffed their haud'kerchiefs into their mouths and got out of the room as quickly as possible to take breath.