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Assets, -.Jtdy.HM !
I&SCESall the new forms of Policies, and pre
sent ns favorable terms as any company iu the
Vj lilted States.
Thirty days' uraco allowed on each payment, and
the policy held good during that time.
Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeit'
ure.
No extra charges are made for t ravelin ft permits.
Policy-holders share in the annual profits of the
Company, and have a voice in the elections and
management of the Company.
Mo policy or medical fee charged.
Justus I.a whence. l'revt.
M. B. Wxnkuof, Vice i'res't.
J. P.llooEKS, Bec'y.
J. V. KATON.
General Agent,
No. 6 North Third Street,
4.29 yl College Muck, HarrUburg, Fa.
Incorporated by the Oinrl of Common Pleas,
in
10U,- by Vie Leylsluturejn
The PeiiHNylraiiia
Central Insurance . Company
OF POTTSVILLE, PA.
Capital and Assets, $156,000.
Premium Notes, 8100,000 00
Promissory Notes, 50,000 00
Cash premiums due or col
lected for the year 1871, $3,028 00
Cash premiums due or col
lected for the first three
months of 1872 1,800 00
Cash from other sources
and agents 1,200 00
Judgmcut Bonds In Com
pany's office 1,100 00
Total Cash ?6,128 00-
Total cash and noto assets.
AprlUst, 1872 $160,128 00
JAMES H. GRIER, JOHN D. HADESTY,
Secretary. President,
DIRECTORS i
John D. Iladesty, A. P. Helms, Benjamin
TTeter, A. Butermelster, James 1. Urlcr, J. t,
Jungkurt. Ellas Miller.
AGENTS !
ir. H. mil, Edward Fox, John A. Ruble, Ed
ward Wesley, Charles . Delbert, Win. R,
Griffith. E. F. Jungkurt, General Airent.
Arrangements have been made with other
.first-class companses to re-insure risas uiKcn
on the cash plan in sucn amounts as acsireu.
Liberal commission allowed necuta, and ex
elusive territory, If desired. This Company
-confines Itself to ure Insurance exclusively.
O F F I C E
No. 191 CENTRE ST., POTTSVILLE, PA.
NOTICE.
The Home Reserve force of The Penn
sylvania Central Insurance Company of
FottBville, Pa., will be In Perry county In
considerable force, and act as tlie Com'
pony's Agents until a full line of Local
Agents can be appointed when the reserve
torce will oe recalled.
JAMES II. GRIER,
Bec'y of Pa. Central Ins, Co,
Insurance Not loo.
On and after the tenth day of April,
1872, The Home Reserve force or Insur-
-anco Agents belonging to "The Pennsylva
nia Central Insurance Company" will leave
Pottsville in heavy force, and occupy ton
different counties of the State, where they
will continue to act as the Company's
.Agents until a full line of Local Agents
.can be appointed, when they will be recalled,
As a body of men, I believe they are supe
rior Insurance Agents, and most of tliera
sneak the English, French, Welsh and (Jer
ri an Languages. The City Insurance
-Journals, with all their sneers at Mutual
Companies, and continual cry of Fraud 1
Fraud t 1 &c, cannot muster any better In
nurance material I Why don't the City In
aurance papers toll the publio that no Ma
tual Company broke or failed during the
last ten years? Why don't they tell the
public that more than halt the Btock Com
panies started within the last ten years
have? It is a well-known fact that Mutual
Companies cannot fail.
JAMES H. GRIER.
Secretary of Pennsylvania Central Insur
ance company. o id
Mew Carriage Manufactory,
Ox Hiok Btbiet, East or Cak-isli St.,
New liloomfleld, Fenn'a.
subseriner has built a large and eommodl
JL ous Hhop on High Ht., Kant of Carlisle Htreet,
New liloomlteld, Pa., where he is prepared toman
ufacture to order
Carriages
Of every description, out of the best material,
' Sleighs of eyery Style,
built to order, and finished In the most artistic a4
. r I il A nianMf.
M. HaviiiK superior workmen, hs Is prepare
to lurniih work that will compare favorably wllkt
-the best City Work, and much more durable, and
at much more reasonable' rates. -
M-KKFAHUNa of all kinds neatly and prompt
ftfdona. AUU sUlelted. ,. ,
. SAMUEL SMITH. .
Company,
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A Case of Circumstantial Evidence.
A1
MURDER trial was concluded a few
days since in Indiana, resulting in a
Verdiot of guilty and a sentenoe of impris
onment for life, which has some remarkable
and singular features. As a case of cir
cumstantial evidence, where thatwas main
ly to be relied upon, it is almost without
parallel; and for certain circumstances con
nected with H, unexplained and unexplica
blo on any ordinary theory, it is still more
interesting. It Involves some exceedingly
respectable people in Indianapolis, and al
together is ono of the most remarkable
trials on record in this country.
The accused was one Nancy E. Clem,
the wife of a lending grocer in Indianapolis.
The charge agniiiBt her was the murder,
four years ago in September, of Jacob
Young and his wife Nancy Young, also re
spectable people of the same town. This
is Mrs. Clem's fourth trial, slio having on
the first trial lost an acquittal by the obsti
nacy of a single- juryman; on the second,
ns now, been convicted and sentenced to
imprisonment for life, though a reversion of
judgment was granted by tho Supreme
Court; on the third, escaped by a disagree
ment of the jury; and now, on the fourth,
found guilty and sentenced to State Prison
for the remainder of her days. Meanwhile-,
ono William J. Abrnms was accused of the
same crime and found guilty of murder iu
the first degree; and her brother, Silas Hart
man, who wns an accomplice, committed
suicido in jail on the night of Ills sister's
second trial, wheu Bhe was found guilty.
It is, perhaps, only a result of tho intense
excitement the case has created in Indiana
that the Supreme Court is accused of hav
ing been tampered with when a now trial
was granted after Mrs. Clem's first convic
tion; hut, at any rato, there is no hesitation
in the Western papers in making the accu
sation. Jacob loung and Ins wile .Nancy were
found dead on tho 12th of September, 1808,
on tho bank of a river three miles from
Indianapolis. Tho woman had been killed
by a pistol ball through the hack of her
head; tho man by a charge of buck-shot
from a doublo-barrolled gun, which was
found by his side. The two shots wore
distinctly heard by persons in the neighbor
hood, one party hearing also a scream be
tween them; and another party having seon
Mr. and Mrs. Young walking with another
woman on the river beach Ave minutes be
fore the shots were fired. It was clearly a
case of murder. Mr. Young's horse and
buggy were found hitched to a fence in the
road near by, but why he and his wife were
there and who was with them it was useless
even to conjecture
Tho first clow was the gun found at
Young's side. There was some peculiarity
about the locks, and it bad a broken thimble.
Such a gun, it was found, had been pur
chased at a pawnbroker's in Indianapolis
that morning, by a man who was exactly de
scribed by the pawnbroker and his assistant.
A man had inquired for a gun at three dif
ferent places between eight and nine o'clock
that morning and at one of those places a
little girl had directed him to the pawn
broker's whore this gun was bought, and
had seen him enter tho shop. He was final
ly laontiuou as William J. Abrams, a re
spectable carpenter of the town, and he
was arrested and lodged in jail.
Next, the ground whore the murder was
committed was carefully searched, and
there was found a well-defined Impression
of a "No. 8 woman's gaiter," worn by
person who had taken long stridos, as if
hurrying from the spot where the doad
bodies lay, until the track reached that of a
buggy drawn by two horses, one wearing
Bmall-sized interfering shoes. After it was
settled who bought the gun and Abrams
was secured, attention was turnedto these
footprints of a woman and a horse.
In a livery stable in Indianapolis, after
careful search, was found a maro who wore
small interfering shoos. One of these ex-
actly fitted the impression found near the
scene of tho murder. A plaster-cast was
taken and compared with the feet of thous
ands of other horses in the town; it fitted
none of them. Silas Hartman, on the af
ternoon of the murder, had hired a horse
and this small interfering mare. Some
farmers swore that they met him driving
behind the Youngs' carriage, though he
failed to respond to their recognition
utners tesiiiiea uiut tncy saw a person
whom they believed to be Mrs. Clem sitting
in Young's carriage at the same time. Hart-
man was arrested at once, but Mrs. Clem
was left at liberty for three weeks longer
She was not arrested for three weeks,
but she was closely watched. Abrams, the
confederate, was In Jail and wanted money
to pay bis lawyers. It appeared on the
trial that while Mrs. Clem was thus left at
liberty, Abrams bad sent his brother to her,
to demand several thousand dollars. Mrs,
Clem went Into the cellar, and took the
money from a package of bills concealed in
stovepipe hole, and sent it to Abrams,
ajui sue warned the brother not to come
again, as it would excite suspicion. Now,
it was known that Young bad 7 000
on his person when he left home, but which
were not found on bis body after he was
murdered. It was also proved that Abrams
had received money on the day of the mur
der from Mrs. Clem, when she returned
borne in the afternoon.
When Mrs. Clom was arrested she had on
pair of carpet slippers belonging to a ser
vant. No shoe nor boot of any kind be
longing to hor could be found in the house,
and there was, therefore, nothing that she
wore with which to measure the foot-print
of the "No, 8 gaiters" found near the
dead bodies, and which it was evident were
on the feet of a woman who fled from the
scene of the murder, and stopped when the
foot-prints of the interfering mare wore
cached. A rigid inquiry was made in the
shoe stores of Indianapolis till one wan, at
last, found where Mrs. Clem had bought a
pair of " No. 8 gaiters" a few days before
the 12th of September. A pair of the same
sizo and manufacture wore produced and
arcfully compared with tho measurement
of tho foot-print. They corresponded in
every particular save ono; tho heels were
too deep. Tho boy who sotd them was
again examined, and ho at length recalled
tho fact that when he sold the shoes to Mrs.
Clom she complained that tho heels were
too high. She was directed to a shoemaker
who could cut them down for her. The
shoemaker wns examined; he remembered
v
altering a pair of No. 3 gaiters for Mrs.
Clom at tho timo referred to. Ho was di
rected now to alter another pair of the same,
kind in tho same way, mid the shoes thus
altered exactly fitted tho foot-print of the
fleeing woman. Here seemed to he tho
most conclusive evidence that tho foot
step of tho woman near tho scone of the
tragedy was the foostop of Mrs. Clem had
stopped in her flight on foot wheu sho reach
ed tho buggy drawn by the interfering
mare with small feet; and that this mare,
with another horse, hod been hired by Si
las Hartman, Mrs. Clem's brother, on that
afternoon. The conclusion was that Silas
Hartman was in waiting to drive away with
his sister, Mrs. Clem, when tho bloody deed
was finished.
Thore was other corrobor ative evidence
of Mrs. Clem's guilt. She had bribed and
otherwise induced several persons to testi
fy that Bhe was at home and at othor places
whero sho could not have been had she
been on tho hanks of White river on tho af
ternoon of the murder of Young and his
wifo. In the course of one or tho other of
the trials, when concealment was no longer
possible, these false witnesses confessed
that they had been guilty of perjury. The
chain of circumstantial evidence was thus
complete. Tho gun with which Young was
shot was bought by Abrams. Abrams, in
jail, bad demanded money of Mrs. Clem,
which she, to the amount of thousands of
dollars, had produced from an unusual
place of concealment and Bent to him, be-
sidos having paid him monoy on tho day of
the murder and after its committal. On
that afternoon she was absent from home,
and footsteps curiously corresponding to
hers in the cut-down heel of a gaiter-boot
she was proved to have purchased, were
found near the dead bodies of Young and
his wifo. Where these footsteps ended,
the singular marks of a horse-shoo com
menced, and a mare, the only ono that
could be found in Indianapolis vIiobo shoes
answered to tun impression, was inreu
that afternoon by Hartman, Mrs. Clem's
brother. Mrs. Clem had made away with
all her shoes, lest apparently, her connec
tion with the woman's footsteps should be
traced. Sho had attempted, by bribery to
prove an alibi. Hart men, the brother,
when she was convicted on hor second trial,
cut his throat with a razor, and killed him
self. And the motive for the crime in
which this guilt teemed so conclusively
proved was supplied in the fact that Young
that day was known to have $7000 upon
his person, which was never accounted for
unless it was in tho stovepipe hole in Mrs.
Clem's cellar, and on which she drow to
satisfy Abram's demands. To make all
this the more probablo, if not most positive
proof of guilt, it was sworn by one witness
that he saw Mrs. Clem get into tho buggy
with Young and his wife on the fatal after
noon; and by another that he saw her re
turning, later in the day, at a rapid pace,
in a buggy with Silas Hartman, hor brother,
who was driving the small-footed mare,
The wonder is that with such a mass of
proof before them any jury should have
hesitated in giving a verdict of murder in
the first degree, except that there might be
a doubt whether the actual deed was com
mitted by Mrs, Clom or by her brother,
Hartman, or by Abrams.
The f 7000 in Young's possession may
have been sufficient motive for this murder
but other circumstances in the case indicate
a less obvious and it may be, a mora pow
erful reason. Young, till within six months
of September, 1868, bad been a poor porter
in a hardware store, subsisting upon his
daily wages. Suddenly be gave signs of
wealth; changed bis manner of living; set
up his carriage; opened a bank account
borrowed large sums of money at large
interest and was prompt in his payments,
During this period a close intimacy existed
between him and Mrs. Clem unknown to
Mr. Clem, who bad never beard of any
such acquaintance until after Young's
death and tbeir money transactions were
frequent and large. The nature of the
business was never known, and when ques
tions were asked the answers were always
evasive. ' ' ' f '
About the same time the ciroumstanoes
of Abrams bad put on another face. He
also gave up bis trade and become a gentl
man of leisure, keeping a prosperous bank
account, borrowing money, and frequenting
Mrs. Clem's house in an unexplained, not
to say mysterious, manner. Then there
was a Dr. Duzan, a highly respectable
physician, .about . whom there was some
queer evidence. He bad known Mrs. Clem
from childhood and was her family physi
cian. Mrs. Clem, before hor arrest, testi
fied, before the grand jury that sho had
never had any financial relations with Dr.
Duzan and he swore that he never had any
business with and did not know Young.
In the course of the trial it was shown that
Mrs. Clem was constantly borrowing mon
ey of the Doctor on short time and at
high rates of interest, and that at one time
these loans reached as high as $-0,000; that
when Dr. Duzan drew any sum of conse
quence from his bank, Young deposited a
like sum in his bank the same day; that
tho reverse also was true when Young drew
out and Duzan deposited. What was the
nature of these pecuniary transactions no
body but the parties concerned know; and
why it was necessary that tho account
should be closed by tho murder of Young
and his wife by Mrs. Clem or her brother
or Abrams is still more inexplicable.
That it has something to do with U, how
ever, is apparent. 1 he murder was com
mitted on tho 12th. On the 14th Young
had to meet payments in the bank of
127,000. Duzan testified that four or five
days before Mrs. Clom had come to him in
great distress of mind and begged for $22,-
000. IIo could not accommodate hor. Of
course sho could not help Young, if that
was what she wanted of tho money, but
that does not seem a good reason for killing
lim. One witness swore that Mrs. Clem
said on the morning of tho murder that
Young had just given hor $20,000. But
this seems a very improbable story, for with
that sum and Alio $7,000 in his pocket
Young could have met his liabilities two
days later, and with that sum between
them, Mrs. Clem would have been under
no necessity of going to Duzan nnd beg
ging, in great distress of mind and in tears,
that he would lend her $22,000, for tho
want of which sho would be undor the dis
agreeablo necessity of killing Young and
his innocent wife, or having them killed by
somebody else in her presence. Dr. Duzan's
share in the business -may have been only
to lend money to the others at exorbitant
interest, but what the nature of thoso
transactions was by which the othor parties
one of them a wotnan acting without the
knowledge of her husband, the others,
poor laboring men should have suddenly
grown rich and all have become so Involved
that it was necessary to kill off one of the
partners, is altogether mysterious, and for
which there seems to bo no satisfactory
theory.
A Good Joke.
Now that tho war is ended, it would be
cruel, perhaps to specify a certain Virgin.
ia batallion in General Heth's d ivlsion,
A. N. V., which mode his name more no
torious than respected throughout the
army for never making a stand in action, or
doing anything else it was ordered to do,
Every appliance of discipline was exhaust
ed by General Lee to forco his unreliable
corps up to tho standard of its duty, but
without avail; tho stuff of which soldiers
are made was not in it. One of the men
belonging to it was once walking on one of
the roods near Petersburg in the winter of
'64, quietly giggling and laughing to him
self, as if his soul was in secret feasting on
some very choice morsel of fun or fortune.
Some one who met him inquired the occas
ion of his mirth.
' We've got ono of the best jokes on
Goneral Lee you ever heard of," said the
follow.
" How's that?" asked the other.
" Why, you soe he's just issued an order
for our batallion flag to bo taken from us,
when the Yankeet took it from us two
months ago in the fight at Hatcher's Run
And the batallion man, still in high good
humor over his little joke at the general's
expense, proceed on his way to camp re
joicing.
Circumstantial Evidence.
The London Globe publishes a statement
which ia an illustration of tho dangor of re
lying upon circumstantial evidence, even
when it approaches positiveness. A gentle
man went to the British Museum with a
cose opened, containing some valuable
medals, for his inspection. He examined a
particular medal, which was supposed to
be unique, restored it to the tray, and af
ter talking some time with the custodian,
was about to leave, when the latter dis
covered that the medalwas missing.
It was searched for everywhere, and
could not be found, when it was suggested
that the pockets of the visitor should bo
examined. To this he objected, and a po
liceman was sent for. However, before be
arrived, the medal was found to have slip
ped between the tray and the bottom of the
case. When asked why be refused to be
searched, the supposed culprit produced a
m edal from his pocket, the exact counter
part of that which was In the case, remark-
ed that his object bad been to verify the
authenticity of bis own, whioh being iden
tical with the missing one and discovered
In bis pocket, would at once have convic
ted him of the theft
SUNDAY HEADING.
Jrcry Mind Has' Its Special Capacity., '
I am of the opinion that every mind that
comes into the world has its own special
ity is different from every other mind;
that each of you brings into the world a
certain bias, a disposition to attempt some-.
thing of its own, something your own an
aim a littlo different from that of any of
your companions; and that every young
man and every young woman is a failure
so long as each does not find what is his or
her own bias; that just so long as you are
influenced by those around you, so long as
you-are attempting to do those things
which you see others do well instead of
doing that which you can do well, you are
so far wrong, so far failing of your own
right mark. Everybody Bees the difference
in children. They very early discover their
tastes. One has a taste for going abroad,
another for staying at homo; one for books,
another for games; ono wishes to hear sto
res, another wants to see things done; ono
is fond of drawing, and another cannot
draw at all, but he can make a machine.
This difference, ns you advanco, becomes
more pronounced. You are more distinct
in your conception of -what you can do
more decided iu avoiding things which you
cannot and do not wish to do. Now, I
conceive the success is in finding what it is
that you yourself really want, and pursu
ing it; freeing yourself from all importun
ities of your friends to do something which
they liko, and insisting upon that thing
which you liko and can do. Emereon.
Some Curious Facts.
Thoso curious facts about the Bible were
ascertained, it is said, by a convict senten
ced to a long term of solitary confinement.
The Bible contains 3,580,489 letters, 773,
C92 words, 81,173 verses, 1,189 chapters
and 00 books. The word and occurs 40,
277 times. The word Lord occurs 1,855
times. The word reverend occurs but once
which is in thoOth verseof the 111th Psalm.
The middle verse is the 8th verse of the
118th Psalm. The 21st vorse of the 7th
chapter of Ezra contains all the letters in
tho alphabet except the lottor J. The fin
est chapter to read is (he 20th chapter of
the Acts of tho Apostles. The 19th chap
ter II Kings and the 87th chapter of Isaiah
are alike. The longest verse is the 8th
verse in the 8th chapter of Esther. Tho
shortest verse is tho 85th verse of the 11th
chapter of St. John. The 8th, 15th, and
81st verses of the 107th Psalm are alike.
Each verse of the 130th Psalm end alike.
There are no words or names of more than
six syllables . .
A Short Sermon.
Here is a bit of philosophy worth read
ing. It is an exposure of a very common
delusion. It is a good rendering of an old
idea:
"Two things ought to bo strongly im
pressed upon young people of our country.
Tho insecurity of riches, even whon ac
quired, and tho unsatisfying character.
There is no fallacy so universally cherished
as the notion that wealth is surely a means
of happiness. The care of a large property
is one of the most burdensome of earth's
trusts. The only material good that comes
from an estate is to be made out of a mod
erate income far more easily than a large
one, and with fewer attendant disadvan-.
tages. Few thoughtful men would under
go the entire stewardship of a large estate
on a positive bargain that thoy should re
ceive no more for taking care of it than
ordinarily falls into the lap of the owner.
The scramble for wealth is due to a wrong
estimate of good when it is gaiuod."
Some Ancient Discoveries.
A Jewish rabbi in Richmond writes to
tho Ditpateh that the lightning rod of our
times was known in the thirteenth century
and quotes from a work extant in 1291 the
following; " If you want to prevont the
thunders from destroylug your castle, then
put on your roof metal wires, and it will bo
saved." But ' more remarkable is this
about the telegraph, which a Jewish oxilo
from Spain in 1493 wrote: " Wo have
good proof (for an invisible conuectiou) in
the magnot stone. If you break this stone
into two parts( positive and negative), and
you lay one part on one side, even that
they are separate by (a wire of) iron, then
every movement which you make on one
side will be visible on the other in the same
movement."
Something To Hold On By. '
A woman who had been a prominent
lecturer on infidelity came to her dying
pillow. Being much disturbed in her mind
ber friends gathered about her and exhor
ted her to " hold on to the last."
"Yes, I have no ohjeetion to holding
on," said the dying woman, " but will you
tell. me what I am to hold on by?"
These words so deeply impressed an infi
del standing by, that he was led to renounce
the delusion.
False doctrine may satisfy the heart
when in health and vigor, but it will not do
" to hold on by" in the solemn hour of
death. ' '
tar Do you mean to live without trial?
Then you would wish to die but half a man
at the very best but balf a man. With
out trial you cannot guess at our' own
strength. Men do not learn to swim on a
table. They must go into the deep ami
buffet the surges.