Juniata Sentinel
M I F F LIN T O W R
Wednesday Morning, July 23, 1873.
B. F. SCIIWEIER,
I I) I TOR a PROPRIETOR.
G EO. P. ROWELL & CO, 40 Park Row, New York
AND
S. M. PETTENGILL & CO., 37 Park Row, N. Y,
Are our tole agents in that city, and are au
thorized to ood tract for advertising at our
lowest rates. Advertiser in tliat city are te
questrd to leave their favors with either of
ilit ahore houses.
The notion seems to posses some peo-pit-
tliat President Grant is to become a
candidate for re election iu tbe next na
tioi.al canvass, and thereon they are de
livering thenist Ives of long articles of the
danger to the Republic by such a reuom
inaiiou and re election. The assumed
allusions i hey make use of to help them
on with their pleasant writing Lave the
merit of being liii-toricel, classical. They
call it "C;esarism," and it sounds well,
but when the souuJ subsides there is an
i nd of it. '
It would be pleasant reading to learn
from ai. titles from the pen of some of
these classical g nth man something more
than nicely dressed assertion, something
whereiu President Grant's official or pri
rate deportment bears the faintest resem-jat
ldanco to the official or private deport
ment of Julius Caisar, from whose line of
individual and State policy Cae-arism
originated or derived its name except
ing, of course, (ir.-tt's military achieve
ments, lie may, indeed, possess the
nrilitary genius of the great Julius, who
destroyed the liberties of Rome ; but to
his credit he has never displayed the
arnliiion of that Roman General, whom
l is critics and defamers charge him with
1 olding constantly before him as a model.
When they thus charge him with Ca:sar
ism they forget that they are destroying
their own former argument:) cf ignorance
igaiut him, for how can an ignoruat and
unlettered man take for a model men and
measures of bygone days with whom or
which he is unacquainted.
Cscsar had a policy. Grant has a pol
icy. It, however, requires a peculiar pen-
'ration, given to few men, to discover a
leeeiublnuce where none exists. Grant's
policy of administration thus far pre
tents no similarity to that of Caesar. It
unly naked assertion that the critics
pritl. . -. C Iva oa liiiUt Tvll na
"y herein Grant's manifestations are like
- u. o. v. . k jn'iu f mo f HI 111,1.1 J
policy ; he usurped the powers of the
Roman Senate ; he individualized the
w hole R iman government.
Grant's policy has been the opposite ;
it has been a civil one, one strictly con
fined to Congreseicnal enactments and
rules of courts. He has repeatedly
through ' State"' papers defined his pol
icy to be that of the will of the people
as expressed through the ballot box. To
this his critics may have the sulphurious
charity to reply that he employs lan
guage as the Fiench diplomatist em
ployed it, simply to disgnise bis real
purposes Again it would be highly in
teresting to ham from these classical
geutlemen wherein the policy of the Re-
publican party, which has become the
comroling governmental policy of the
country, resembles "Caessrism."'
Again, it would be imparting unknown
information to show the analogy between
the government set up by Julius Caesar
uud tli e government of this Republic as
administered by President Grant. From
Caesar came a line of Empoiers, Caesars,
and the extinguishment of whatever of
Republicanism that had existed in the
Roman government. Through Grant, as
the administrator of the ideas of North
ern civilization iu governmental affairs,
eveiy vestige of individualism has been
rooted out and a complete Republic, such
as Rome during her palmiest semi-Rs-j
I ublican days scarcely couceived of, has
been established. If the critics know
better, why do they not tell whereiu
Oram's policy is like that of ''Caesar-:
i-m
It is all a "boob." The moral and
intellectual status of the American peo
ple is such juet now that no tn in or set
of men could with the shadow of a chance
f success play the role of Caesar or
Caesarism, no matter how much they
might so desire to do.
Forney's I'rrss of the 21st inet., in
an editorial article headed " A National
Duty," revives the question of the raising
of a national fund to be used in the pre
serration of the birthplace and tomb of
Washington, and thinks the Centennial
Anniversary should bring that desirable
object to a consummation.
Senator Tipton, of Nebraska, is de
voting himself to the welfare of hie farm.
Laving set out 2 000 apple trees and for
est trees iu abundance. He is now plan
ting two and a half miles of hedge, Las
fifty acres of wheat, twenty of oats, and
fifteen of corn, and has done all this
himself with the assistance of one man.
The two Wall street merchants who
went to Canada to fight a duel,' bave
with ther (seconds, been indicted by the
graud jury of the New York Court of
General Sessions.
True genius is modest, . and modesty
is often the handcuff of true genius.
. The Shalt.
The Persian king, " King of kings,'
in his visit to England and Europe, has
kept governmental circles of those conn
tries in an agitated state. Tbey have
never entertained any personage like him
His manners are so luxurious, lascivious,
and different from those of Europeans,
that his capers have astonished those
who have entertained him to such a de
gree that they have been giving to the
public long accounts of his doings.
Writers of bygone days tell that it was
the introduction of luxuries, manners,
customs and ways of living of Persia
and other Eastern countries, that paved
the way for the fall of the Roman Em
pire. It is presumed that the circle in
which be moved has been too much as
tooished to tell how it likes his ways
When it fully recovers itself the world
will learn their likes and dislikes. Roy
ally, out of governmental courtesy, was
bound to receive bim in close relationship,
Iu America the Shah would not be ad
milted to the homes of icsprctable Am
erican citizens. They would just as
soon think of taking Biigham Young into
their families.
From among the many accounts of
European correspondents we clip and
publish the following from city papers :
"It is said by those who ought to know
that when Buckingham Talace, London,
was being fitted np as a Lome for the
Sbah, one of the chief rooms was adorn
ed with a rich carpet which had been
designed and manufactured especially to
charm the eye of His Majesty. The
story goes on to say that a couple of the
j Persian suite came here a week ago to
see that all things were in readiness and
nothing overlooked, and that when they
I reached that particular room and glanced
the lovely combination of green fi.
ures and white oues in that carpet they
gathered their robes carefully up about
their knees and then went elaborately
tiptoeing about the floor with the aspect
and anxiety of a couple of cats hunting
for dryground in a wet country, and
they stepped only ou the white figures
and almost fainted whenever they came
uear touching a green one. It is said
that the explanation is that these vi.-il
ing Persians are all Mohammedans, and
green being a color sacred to the de
scenduuts of the Prophet, aud none of
these people being eo descended, it would
he dreadful profanation for them to defile
the holy color with their feet. Aud the
general result of it all was that that car
pet bad to be taken up, and ii a dead
toss.
"Strange stories were toll of ruined
carpets, defiU-d curtaius, and an accumu
lation of filth and horror of every de
scription in the rooms occupied by the
Easterns at Berlin, while it was confi
dently stated that the coldness shown by
the German Emperor to his Oriental
guest, which permitted the shah to pass
his last few days alone,' and actually to
leave Berlin without the presence of any
of the imperial family, arose from the
fact that at a dinner at Charlottenberg
the Shah, disapproving of something he
was eating, actually spat out the contents
of his mouth upon the skirts of his im
perial hostess. Not a pretty trick, and
perhaps not a pretty story j however, I
am only an " abstract chronicler" of the
times, and of snch kiud are the anec
dotes with which our society is at pres
ent rife."
" Next to the grass and trees, or per
baps before, the women of England have
had the honor to interest the Sbah. Re
garding them naturally from the Oriental
point of view. His Majesty has made a
number of remarks which will scarcely
bear repetition in print. The prevailing
fashion of dress has given him abundant
opportunity to compare their attractions
with those of his own harem. For three
be is reported to have offered ,60,000,
with the option of canceling the bargain
and returning to England if after a fair
trial they dislike Persia. One of the
three told me she was inclined to accept
if the money could be settled on herself,
and if she could feel sure about getting
back. But I think no bargain has been
closed. At Lady Granville's party at
the Foreign Office, on Tuesday night, it
was an American lady or, as some say,
two or three fair Americans who had
the honor to attract this noble savage's
regard. At one or two dinners Le Las
found himself with a lady on each side
of him, and this is a practice which he
declares himself nnable to understand.
They, on the other hand, have been en
lightened by experience as to some cus
toms which prevail in Persia, but have
hitherto been unknown iu England. One
lady on rising from the table fonnd her
lap filled with morsels from the Royal
plate, which, as she supposed, he had
found unpalatable and quietly disposed
of in this way. Another beheld sundry
viands from time to time during dinner
transferred from the Shah's plate to her
own. There is even a story that Le took
such a violent dislike to spinach when it
was served to him for the first time that
he ejected it from bis month on to the
plate of his neighbor. But to all these,
as to most of the other stories, there is
another side. The charitable and well
informed explain that these contributions
were meant as marks of royal favor and
were in the bight of good breeding, siuce
among Orientals it is the custom to be
stow on a guest the choicest morsels from
the host's portion, and a King always
stands in the relation of a host to every
body else."
"The Shah himself is an ugly cuss.
He resembles closely the picture of the
more cruel of Lis forefathers, contained
in the aarly editions of the Arabian
Nights. I dare say he has caused many
a poor devil's Lead to be chopped" off on
a notice of five minutes, and it would not
surprise me to learn that he Las a trick
of making himself a widower three or
four times a month. A fierce-eyed. tal
low-visaged, ogly beast as ever wore a
diamond or carried a' scimeter ; and Lis
Grand Visier, who is along with him, is
onlv a trifle less brutal and vicious. If
you met either iu a dark alley you would
tremble for your life. If Captain Jack
has a worse couutenance Le is no true
Modoc" '
A MYSrERlOUS MURDER.
Mutilation of the Body Deed in Content
Station Seven Months The Murderer
iissing Full particulars.
Ou Saturday last, a rumor was preva
lent on our streets, that a foul murder
had been committed near Cochranville.
in this county, and on Sunday morning
our reporter repaired to the scene and
finds the circumstances as follows :
On Friday near 12 o'clock, M. Mr.
Gainer P. Moore, of Penningtonville,
is passing down the pike on his way
home from Cochranville, aud when about
1$ miles from that villlage, in a piece of
woods on the farm of Jacob Bair, his at
teution was attracted by a large flock of
buzzards that appeared to find a special
a traction at a spot about 40 yards on
the left hand or south side of the road
He moved into the woods and found
what be believed to he the body of a
man, buried about a foot deep, with a
Blight covering of earth, which had been
removed so as to leavea part of the
breast exposed. He left matters as they
were and went to the residence of Sam
uel llhodes, near Penningtouville, and
they together satisfied themselves that
it was a human body, and then spread
the alarm. People soon collected from
both Penningtonville and Cochranville,
among them Hugh Rambo, Esq, who!
empanui led a jury consisting of George
Wilson, Abraham Ross, ilezekiah Liu-
ton, George Reese, John S. Pennock and
William Hastings.
The body was then exhumed and
found much decomposed and without the
arms and legs. All present, except those
at work, stepped away from the grave to
escape from the stench, and one gentle
man in doing so stepped upon a bunch of
pine boughs about 15 feet distant, that
ppeared to have soft earth under, aud
exclaimed, "Here is something else,"
and search disclosed the missing limbs.
The remains were then taken to Pen-
ingtonville and a post mortem examina
tion made by Dr. Bailey, who found that
the throat had been cut across the front ;
that there was one slab between the 4th
and 5 lli ribs ; one between the 9th an!
lOib ribs on the right side ; one iu the
"lit breast, and one in front at the pit
f the stomach, all apparently inflicted
with a long aud very sharp knifo. The
only articles found with the body were
shirt, a pair of stockings and low gai
ters, all of which were on the diff rent
parts to h hich they belonged. ' The re
mains are apparently those of a rather
fine looking man from 30 to 35 years of
sgi, about 5 feet S iuches high, with
black hair, moustache aud Burnside
whiskers. . '
Gainer P. Moors was examined and
testified to finding the body as above
staten. Samuel Rhodes was then called
and this is Samuel Rhodes' story.
Mr. Rhodes lives within a half mile of
Penningtonville, and about two miles
from where tho ' body was found, and
says that he is married to the sister of a
man named William E. Udderzook,
whose mother owns a house at Jenner
ville, but lives with Mr. Miller at Penn
station, P. &B C. 11.' II. That Wil
liam has lived for some years in Balti
more, and has been ou tbe police force
there He got a letter from William,
dated the ICih of December last, telling
him to drop everything and come to
Sharp & Co's. plaining mill, near the
President street depot in Baltimore, and
ask for Lim ; that he Lad a good thing
on hand by which tbey could make
$1000 in a couple of bonrs, but enjoining
upon him the utmost secrecy in regard to
the matter. Rhodes did not go to Balti
more, but wrote to Lis brother-in-law ask
ing for further particulars, and received
no answer. This letter Le showed to
Gainer P. Moore and some others shortly
after he received it. He heard nothing
more from Udderzook until Tuesday,
July 1st, when he came into the field
where he was at work, accompanied by
his sister, (lihodes' wife). He called
Rhodes to one side and talked with him
abont an hour, asking why Le Lad not
come to Baltimore, and said that they
could have easily made the $1000, as Le
knew a man who had the money by Lim
and Le Lad wanted RLodes to help pnl
him ont of the way. Rhodes exhibited
horror at the proposition, and Udderzook
then went on to say that the chance was
equally good now for twice that amount,
as he had the man all right at Jenner
ville, and wanted Rhodes to take bis
wagon and go there with him, when tbey
would take the man ont and murder him.
Udderzook declaring that he bad SI 000
of the money with him and that he (U.)
kuew where to get the other S1C00. He
said he Would get some drug and give
the man, aud then they could easily put
him out of the way. . Rhodes refused to
go into the arrangement, and then Ud
derzook wanted to xnow if he brought
the man to Rhodes' house that night,
aud he should die suddenly, if Rhodes
would help him dispose of the body se
cretly. This Rhodes also refused to do,
and declared that he would bave nothing
to do with the affair, urging Udderzook
to give the idea up oltogether as it would
bring ruin on himself and all the family.
Udderzook then declared he woul d do
the job himself.
Mr. Jefferia said that on Monday even
ing, June 30, Udderzook came to Lis
hotel in company with another gentle
man, and after some hesitation, he kept
them all night. They retired early. In
the morning Udderzook came down and
said his friend wai not well, and Mrs.
Jefferies prepared some breakfast which
he carried up and the dishes were brought
down empty. Udderzook then hired a
horse from Edw. Patchell and went off
in the direction of Cochranville. He re
turned in the evening with a horse aud
buggy in addition to the horse he ' took
away, and after calling on his mother at
Penn Station, paid tbe bill, took his friend
in the buggy, and went away again to
wards Cochranville, leaving Jennerville
at 5 o'clock in- the evening.
Mrs Jefferis took notice that the stran
ger appeared quite sick after Udderzook
left, and asked for whisky. Mrs J. Lad
none to give him, and told him so. He
then went to sleep, and when he got up,
two or three hoars after, did nut ask for
the whisky again. He appeared so had
that she called the attention of Dr. Nau-
dain to his case, who thought there was
not much the matter with him, but that
he had been drinking She bad very
little talk with him. The only thing he
said about LimBelf, was that he was an
agent from Kentucky, and bad been to
New York, but did not tell his name or
residence. Mr. Jefferis' son recognized
the ring found in the buggy as one he
bad seen on the stranger's hand, and all
who had seen this stranger companion of
Udderzook, recognized the body as his.
The unfortunate man was never again
seen alive after he left Jennerville, and
nothing was known of him until the
finding of the body eleven days after
The nejt place Udderzook was seen after
taking the buggy home to Pennington
ville, was when he was noticed by Mr
Jefferis, walking into Jennerville about
9 o'clock on Wednesday morning, from
the direction of Cochranville, with ' his
coat on his arm and looking as if bo had
had a long walk Mr. J. asked him where
his partner was, and be said he had tak
en him to Parkesburg. He then went
down to his mother.
Mrs. Udderzook, the mother of Wm
E Udderzook and Mrs Rhodes, was
only induced to come before the inquest
after much trouble and gave her evidence
with great hesitation. She stated at
first, that William came to see her, the
first time, on Monday, and the last time
on Thursday, but at last admitted that
the visits were on Tuesday and Wednes
day, and that he finally went away (on
the cars) on Thursday. She also admit
ted, after a great deal of hesitation, that
she had washed his pants, shirt aud
handkerchief, while he was in bed. The
pants were of hlark cloth, and she claim
ed at first that she only brushed the dirt
from the bottoms of the legs, but after
warda admitted that the had taken water
and washed them. She said she did not
know where he was, or where he bad
been ou Tuesday liight.
When Udderzook took the horse and
buggy to the stable at Penningtonville,
the hostler told him be must pay for the
missing robe and sheet, the damage doue
to the buggy aud the extra time he was
away, lie said shortly that he would
see Mr. Baldwin in the morning and
walked off. Ou Wednesday Edw. Pat
chell was in Peningtooville and Mr.
Baldwin gave bim an order on Udder
zook for this bill, which was presented
to him at Mr. Miller's place at Penn
Station, where he was stopping with his
mother. He paid Patchell for the robe
and sheet but refused to pay for the
damage or extra time.
While Udderzook was about Jenner
vill he appeared to be anxious to escape
recognition, and refused to talk with par
ties there who kuew him well.
Several theories of the murder proba
ble, and improbable, are advanced. One
is, that the stranger was driven to the
wood murdered, dismembered and buried
after which the buggy was taken home.
But it does not seem that this could be
the case, as medical authorities claim
that tbe limbs could not have been taken
off so nicely as they were by any one
in tbe dark. They are amputated at the
hip and shoulder joints, and the catting
has been done with a very sharp knife
by some one who could see what he was
doing Besides this the horse and wagon,
which could not be taken into the woods
would have attracted attention on that
much traveled thoroughfare.
Another, and app trendy the most
plausible theory is, that more than one
person were engaged in the murder,
which was committed at some distance
from the point of burial, and that the
limbs were cut off in order that they
might be carried in one parcel while the
trunk was carried in another.
On Saturday afternoon, tbe jury of in
quest returned a verdict that the unknown
deceased had come to his death from
stabs and cuts received from a sharp in
strument in the hands of Wm. E. Udder
zook himself, or assisted by others
On Saturday. Mr. James C. Hammill
of Penningtonville came to Westchester
and waa furnished by Hon. Washington
Townsend, acting District Attorney with
a letter to Gov. Hartranft which he took
to Ilarrisburg on Sunday, and procured
a requisition on Governor Wyley, of
Maryland, and directed to Sheriff Gill of
this county, to bring Udderzook here to
answer the charge of murder if Le can
be found in that State. Wert Chetter
Republican.
ANOTHER INTERESTING 8IDB ISSUE.
The excitement in the Eastern part of
the State in reference to the murder in
Chester County has not decreased, but
each new development seems to give the
matter fresh interest. The Baltimore
Ledger, speaking in reference to the ar
rest of Udderxook (that seems to be the
orthography of it) gives this interesting
side issue :
"The arrest of Udderzook has been
tbe subject of general interest and dis
cussion here, particularly among life in
surance agents, Udderzook having been
the principal witness in tbe suit of Mrs.
Goss against tbe Mutual Life Insurance
ConVpany, recently tried in the United
States Coorti tbe particulars of which
were given to the public through tbe
Associated Press at the time. Goss bad
a life policy iu the Mutual, Continental
and Knickerbocker Companies, of $5,000
each, and Si 0,000 in the Travelers, of
Hartford, making 125,000 in all. '
It is alleged that Goss was burned in
his shop, near this city, in the winter of
1872. The insurance companies refused
to pay the policies. The widow brought
suit against the Mutual, of New York,
and recovered a verdict for the-full
amount. The evidence during the trial
was conflicting, and notwithstanding the
verdict, tbe agents of the insurance com
panies asserted their belief that Goss was
still alive- The suit against the Mutual
Company was the only one tried, and
another is now pending for a new trial
The suit against the other companies has
not yet been tried, and no money has
been paid by the companies. The story
now is that Goss is the strange man who
was murdered at Jennersville.
Udderzook is married, and Las a wife
and child in this city.
THE BODY Op TUB MURDERED MAN IDEN
TIFIED AS THAT OP GOSS. '
Baltimore July 18 A special des
patch to the Baltimore American says :
Under the direction of the District
Attorney, we have to day exhumed and
thoroughly examined the body of the
man recently found murdered near Pen
ningtonville. All the measurements of
the body, muscular developement figure,
and general appearance accurately cor
respond with the well known description
of W infield Scott Goss. The teeth are
remarkably good, regular, even, and well
pieserved. The remains were fully iden
tified by Baltimore citizens who knew
Goss intimately during his lifetime
A seal ring found iu the wagon used
by Udderzook on the night of the mar
der was to day identified by Louis En
gel, of Baltimore, who is a friend of the
Goss fimilv, and who was a witness for
Mrs Goss in the recent insurance suit.
He unqualifiedly declares it to be tLe
ring worn by Goss; says he has seen
and examined it many times, and has
frequently taken it from Goss and placed
it npon his wn finger. He described
the ring perfectly before it was thown
him.
All the links in the chain of evidence
are now complete, except a chemical
analysis of the blood stains on tne wag
on, and similar examination of ihe charr
ed remains of the clothing burned by
Udderzook. These materials under seal
are to-day placed in the hands of Profes
sor E. Lloyd Howard, of Baltimore, for
examination aud report to the State an
tborities. 1 he trial of Udderzook is set
for October 27.
Rapid Growth of the Grange MoTcment.
Owing to the rapid growth of the Or
der of the Patrons of Husbandry, the
headquarters of the National Grange will
soon be removed from Georgetown, D. C,
to Washington, where the secretary's
office will hereafter be located. Since
the 1st inst. abont 350 subordinate
granges have beeu organized, making the
total number of granges in operation up
to date 4.700, with an aggregate mem
bership of about 350 000. Tbe order
seems to be growing most rapiJly iu the
States ov Iowa, (which now has 1,750
granges,) Missouri, Indiana, Illinois,
Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.
In response to requests from different
States several additional general depu
ties have recently been sent out by the
National Grange to organize subordinate
granges. There are at present State
Granges in Arkansas, California, Geor
gia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mis
sissippi, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebrasba, North Carolina, Ohio, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Wis
cons in. 1'ras,
Mr John Sheerer made an ascension
from Reading, Pa., in a balloon, accom
panied by his wife. Tbe Reading Eagle
says : The balloon shot straight to zenith
until it struck an upper current of air,
when it veered away beautifully to the
east by south. At one time the balloon
was over two miles high. Mrs. Sheerer
closed her eyes until they reached an
altitude of 500 feet, when she looked out
and viewed the grand panorama stretch
ed out in beautiful magnificence below.
Instead of becoming frightened, she was
entirely the reverse, and expressed her
self as being highly delighted with bal
looning. Under the direction of her
husband she regulated tbe ballast and
made herself quite usefuL la fact tbe
lady was so much pleased with aerial
navigation that she insisted npon making
an ascension alone. The landing was
somewhat rough, though attended by no
injuries. They came down in a field,
and were bumped several times against
the ground, bnt as the balloon neared a
fence the anchor was east out and tbe
airship secured. ........
A Milwaukee despatch says that the
two men who committed some' robberies
at New London were caught at Showana
on Thursday night. A vigilance com
mittee of sixty took them from the Sher
iff, put a noose around their necks, and
hung them till they confessed where tbe
stolen property was secreted.
SHORT ITEMS.
A daring youth last week swam across
tbe Niagara river below the falls..
It U said the Shab scratches bis bead
with tbe corner of a salt cellar.
The traveling expenses of tbe Shab
of Persia are said to be $250,000 a
month.
Washington journalist sailed in the
Tigriss, on her polar expedition, as a
common sea man..
No man improves in a company for
wbicb he has not enough respect to be
under some degree of restraiut.
Miss Alice Johnson, of Kansas, has
opened a barber shop, and gives her per
sonal attention to the shaving of gen
tlemen. -
If a Persian turn Christian bis bead
is chopped off if tbey catch bim. All
sort of wickedness are cured by decapi
tating. .
A Pittsburg cabinet maker has gun
crazy trying to invent a rocking chair
with a self-acting fan and shoo fly at
tachment Judge John Robertson, a Virginian by
"birth education and thought, and a
descendant of Pocahontas, died on tbe
5th instant, at Mount Athol, at the ripe
old age of eighty eight.
Mr. Benjamin Longenecker, of Wood
bury, Bedford couuty, fell dead on Mon
day eveniug a week, while walking
through a pasture to which he had gone
for his cows. He was 70 years of age.
When a crowd of jiyhawkers started
a disturbance in a Texas church, tbe
other day, the preacher raised a shot
gun and said; "William Dello, sit down
or I'll make it painful for you. "Wil
iain sat down and was quiet as a lamb
Mrs. McArthur of Los Angeles, Texas
because her husband scolded ber about
the character of their breakfast, took a
large dose of strychnine, and died soon
after. An official investigation into the
conduct of the husbaud is demanded
Mayor Havemeyer, of New York, has
made a requisition on Governor Dix for
800 breech loading rifles and other ne
cessary equipments for arming the police
of that city, who arc to be drilled and
used as military in suppressing disor
ders.
When the Shah met Queen Victoria,
he kissed her with perfect delicacy and
grace, and said that hitherto he had reck
oned his years from the day of his biith,
but in future he would reckon them from
the day of his meeting tho Queen of
England.
Sup for the poor in Boston cost about
81,000 last year, and "refreshments' for
the city government $41,000. This was
about $2,50 a day for each member of
the City Council. Wouldn't it be cheap
er to get the whole crowd boarded at a
first class hotel I
Of the 35,170,204 passengers carried
over the railroads in Pennsylvania last
year, only thirty-three were killed less
than one in a million . The chances
against death by railroad traveling are.
therefore, more than a million to one in
this State. PiiUburgh CommTcial.
Some, robbers recently seized and
bound a man and his wife near Saliua,
Cal , and tortured them by pulling their
finger-nails out with pincers, to m ike
them disclose the hiding place of their
money. They remained silent in spite
ef their torture, and the robbers got
nothing.
A few weeks ago Pacini's opera,
"Sappho," was being played at Rome.
At the end of the last act, when Sappho
throws herself into the sea, the singer's
substitute had-o badly arranged his
classical robes that the last thing seen of
the Greek poetess was a large pair of
men's boots 1 The curtain fell amid tbe
most uproarious laughter.
At Moscow a lady, renowned for her
beauty, ventured to call on tbe Shah
with an enormous boqnet. The "Light
of the World" accepted the floral pres
ent, examined the fair visitor carefully
and leasurely for a considerably period
with his. eye glass, and then probably
overcome by admiration, turned his back
upon her and retreated to bis apartments
without deigning to utter even a royal
monosy liable.
The Titusville Herald says : Intelli
gence teaches us from Parkers of the
discovery of a secret organization formed
for the purpose of destroying the nitro
glycerine magazines of the Roberts Tor
pedo Company, and to feloniously ap
propriate their contents to the putting in
of what are called moonlight tornedoes.
or torpedoes clandestinely exploded by
partiet obtaining the means and appli
ances by theft.
They have a practical way of righting
things np in Canterbury, N. II. A
Manchester man who had unfairly ob
tained a farm of a dying man, to the
detriment of his widow and childreu,
recently visited it to cut the hay, got
mowing machine ready for use the next
morning, and retired. That night about
twenty men and women turned out, pre
pared the hay by moonlight, sold the
crop, and placed the money in keeping
for the rightful heirs, all before daylight
. A vigilance committee of eitizens has
becu formed at Omaha to deal with tbe
gamblers and roughs who infest that re
gion. They announc their intention . to
aid the authorities in enforcing the laws,
but in case of failure or k neglect on the
part of the lawful agents to protect the
citizens' tbe committee will take the
matter in charge. They . give public
warning that if some remedy is not spee
dily applied they would feel justified in
using summary measures.' Many gamb
lers have already left. 'i
Rey. E. O. Forney, pastor of the Re
formed church of Norristown, res:gned
bis charge last week. The vestry of the
church had no previous knowledge of
bis purpose to resign until he bad gone.
A letter left behind revealed bis inten
tions, which are to unite himself with the
Roman Catholic church. Ilia sudden
departure created quite a stir in Norm
town Subsequently he j dried the Cath
olics. The party of gentlemen who witness,
ed the recent trial of the Belgiau towage
system on the Erie canal at Buffalo, con
sider, tbe adoptiou of that mode of tow
age only a question I time. Already
the cable is laid between Buffalo and
Lock port and loaded boats bave been
towed between those points at the rate
of four miles an hour. The thing is
done by a strong solid steel wire cable
laid at the bottom of tbe canal to which
is attached a grapple, which in its tnrn
is attached to a graved wheel placed on
the side of tbe boat to be towed. The
cable is then passed over other wheels,
also graved, and then falls back into the
water in the rear. It is impossible for
the cable to slip over tbe wheels and the
process works very . smoothly. The
boats that are to be towed are connected
with the steain towing boat by an ordin
ary cable.
We are informed on good authority;
says the Pittston Corn't that a party of
five citizens of Pittston went on a short
excursion to Shiny Mouutain on Sunday
last. Their commissaries consisted of a
solid batch of sandwiches and a keg of
lager.. While at the rendezvous, weth
er by a preconcerted arrangement or not,
they were joined by a number of women,
who entered into the festivities with
more than masculine avidity. The men.
passed the foaming mug frequently, and
as frequently was its contents drained
by all present. By and by the nectar
of Gatnbrinas began to work in the
heads of the giddy damsels, who forgot
the modesty of their sex, and, all un
trammelled with skirts or bodice, re
galed the party of the first part with-
songs, gymnastic evolutions, and ground
and lofty tumbling generally.' It was
fun for the men, bnt death to the char
acter of the girls.
The opium crop of Turkey annually
amounts to about 5000 cases, each case-
containing 140 pounds. It is chiefly
distributed between America, England,,
aud China. This year everything ap
peared to be favorable for a good yielil
and at least an average crop was confi
dently expectt d till a short time ago,
when advices were received that one half
of the crop had been destroyed by the
hot winds. It is now reported that the
entire product of thiyear, which is now
harvesting, will probably not amount to
more than 2000 cases. Opium in bond,
in New York city, lias advanced from $5
per pound, gold, to $G 25, gold, within
the last six weeks. If tbe unfavorable
reports are fully confirmed, it is believed
in the trade that it will continue to ad
vance enormously, and not improbably
reach the figure of about five years ago,
when, under similar circumstances opiutrs
was sold for Si 1 per pound in gold.
A Great Horror Done Away With.
House cleaning is a great horror to
nine mc-o ont of every ten. When that
time comes tbe "men folks," as a rule,
give the domestic hearth a "wide berth."
Oceans of suds the product of tons of
soap faiily flood every part of the
house. The women, from the mistrestr
down, labor as they nevei worked before,
and what with the discomfort, the smell
of snds and the dampness, and not nn
frequently sickness, the product of colds
and overwork, matters are generally dis
agreeable. Tbe simple use of Sa polio
instead of soap does away with all thi
discomfort. It lightens tbe labor a hun
dred per cent., btcanse it removes dirt,
grease, stains and spots, with hardly any
labor, with but little water, and in one
tenth of the usual time. 2w
Uur dwtisfrafttts.
Administratrix's Hotice.
Ettatt of Jacob it. Click, datattd.
MMIE undersigned, to whom Letters of M
1 ministration on the estate of Jacob M
Cleck, late of Walker township deo'd., have
been dul granted according to law, hereby
gives notice to all persons indebted to said
estate to come lorward and make payment,
and those having claims against it. to pre
sent them properly authenticated for settle
ment. SUSANNAH CLECK, Adm'z.
July 23, 1873-6t
Caution.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against
bunting or gathering berries, or in tres
passing in any way on the lands of the un
dersigned in Fermanagh township. All per
sons so offending will be dealt with to the
full extent of the law.
EMANCEL MOTEK.
DAVID RENNO.
MICHAEL STONER.
JOHN RENNO.
ABRAHAM 8TOSER.
JOHN BVLER.
July 23, 1878.
To Contractors and Builders.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received by
the Commissioners of tbe connty of Ju
niata, at their ofhee in Mitftinfown. ntil one
o'clock P. M. on MOXDAI, AUGIST lltb.
1873, for tbe erection and enlargement of a
Court House in aaid town. Proposals must
state the sum ia gross for furnishing all the
materials, except the brick, and doing all
tbe work according to the plan and specifica
tions of the same.
The Commissioners reserve the right to
reject all or any of the bids which they shall
consider incompatible with the interests of
the county. . .
Plan and specifications can be seen ai tbe
Commissioners' office oa and after the 28th
day of July, 1873.
WILLIAM CLSH.
" - 'J . WM. VAN SWERIXGEN,
J " ' DAVID B. DIMM,
Attest: ... Commiiiioneri.
James Diax, Cierk.'
N. B Bidders will bold themselves in
readiness to euter iato a bond with security
on the day of the letting, for the faithful
performance of the contract, if th same ia
awarded tv tbem.
July 16, 187.