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' GOLD closed in New York yesterday
at 1841.
Ix mot , of the injudicious treatment of
the situation by the Pittsburgh Post, it
will not be soxprising if the Democracy
of -Western Pennsylcsania accept our kind
offer, to take the exclusive managemint
of the political interests of their favorite
-candidate for nomination as Governor.
We shill make an effort to deserve their
impfidence.
- Tim recent exposure of the scandalous
:practices of certain journalists in New
York and Philadelphia has undoubtedly
uurpriami the public, and to some extent,
the memberSof 'the American press gen
•erally. We cannot congratulate the ac
'eased journalists upon the success with
which they have / attempted to explain
Atm the very serious imputations against
-them. Their-statements are even less fa
-Totable for tlibmselves than the original
changes, since they substantially confess
these to be true. It is ver, likely that
farther revelations are yet to be made.
We haven respect for the personal
motives which have 'animated these scan-
Aeons publications, but we are obliged
to accept the facts. As to these, there can
well be but one opinion. The case is un
!lumpily too clear for discussion. Since
the press has been disgraced by unworthy
-members, let us be thankful that it is
lo be relieved by their exposure, and by
_their perpetual dismissal from the public
confidence. ' -
It is understood that the management
:tof the New jork TrThune—the only
journal having a part in the fracas, in
which the public feel any especial interest
'--has now beep confided to Mr. WurrE
MAW Raw. late of Cincinnati, but more
:recently mie of the Triune's editors.
TEMPERANCE IN POLITICS
Some wait zealous friends of. Temper.
Ohio, met, a fortnight since, in
Convention, and resolved to organize for
political action at once. They make the
:1138563 upon the prohibition - of - the mane
'facture andeale of alcohol as a beverage,
and will give their suffrage to no candi
date who shall be unpledged to that , pro
hibition: The Conventionalso denounced
both'of the great political parties, as un
willing to take up the cause of temper
encie, or to adopt any measures in the di
rection either of restriction or of prohibi
tion of the liquor traffic.
It is thus seen that, if Ohio politics be
not diversified by this temperance ques
tion, this year, it will not be the fault of
the ultra teraptatanbe riven. That political
issue is already made in that State. It
was hacky'elough to 'secure a faithful ap
plication the same week. Acting strictly
'upon the new platform, the Temperance
men of . Cleveland made the issue at their
city election—and with such conspicuous
success as to eleot a Democratic whisky
" distiller for Mayor by something less than
three thousand majority. Upon a square
vote, upon the old-fashioned political
issues, the city ought to be Republican
by some five hundred majority. Certain
ly., an admirable opening for the new
-'temperance campaign. And its entire
'..ciutrse, if it runs at all up to October, in
falo, will be brilliant with similar vic
fillkist shohld be glad to have some
iiplanation froia the leading men of the
new tenaperance party as to the probable
ditte Of their final triumph, at this rate, in
Alia political field.
The Cleveland experiment was by no .
Means a novelty; its results might have
been expected—perhaps were expected
:by it few of the temperance party. Sim-
IDY recruits have, with scarcely an excep.
lion, everywhere followed the
,political
teinperance issue. We havehad the same
experience here. Our citizens will not
forget the splendid disasters which that
issue has achieved, In other years, in our
0:.
own local politi9s.
Political • temperance gets all its votes
i-tivut one °Utile old parties— Row many
Democrats.did the reader ever know to
-reel for a temperance candidate?
Not
*ail lluch bones ire not at all the
thing with that' excellent patty: They
arequite too liberal and .enlightened, in
their, Ideas, to, proscribe a man who
inakes, sells, or' drinks alcoholic liquOrs,
Pr 1 6 0 advocates the right' of anybody
,alse to-do it: Indeed, the impresaion has
loin rather general one that'ehepetno
- crathiPutt midre" Fettled than other
:MX.l9th! WSW liberty in gat Wag.
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Be that as it 'may; - 10:geower the tem
perance question is rarried to th e polls,
it is done by those who never hive voted
the Democratic ticket, and every Demo
crat votes againa it. Is it fair, then, or
even truthful, to stigmatise the two par
ties as alike unfriendly% to the tem
perance cause? And if that party
which is not Democratic be in fact the
most friendly to a temperance reform in
the.public morals, by reason of the greater
intelligence, and higher social imitate of
its individual members, why mast the
zealots upon that question foreyer per
sist in their mischievious raids.
upon the only party which has
ever substantially benefitted . their
Cause by the general hilluence l of 'its
membership upon public opinion, and by'
the "general tendency of ‘. its, legislation
upon all matters of sociatmorality? Is It
the only practicable Strategy f3r ,temper
anal men, to ruin their best friends and
throw the contest of local - or State affairs
into the hands of a party which never
gave them. a vote at the polls, pr the first
line of temperance legislation?
Weaken not now discuss the question
in its l irnoral aspect. We believe in tein
perance in all things, and have no parti
ality for that intemperance of opinion
which insists upon the social duty of en
forcing, by legal coercion, the paramount
obligation upon all of one view Of a
morn question, when the opposite view
is equally recognized by at least_one-half
of the community. So long as a moiety,
or anything near a moiety, of the people
continue, as they really now de, to see
no moral obliquity in the manutacture,
sale, or use of alcoholic drinks, we hold
it to be a most uncharitable in
temperate, nu-republican and unwise
policy to attempt the conversion of that
moil,' sense by the main force of legal
enactments. And so think considerably
more than half of the people, as they in
-variably express themselves whenever
this folly of a temperance issue is, from
time to time, thrust into the political
arena: It is always defeated, the only
party which has ever given to it voice or
vote, is always sent to the wall, divided,
distracted and beaten by the temperance.
seldom in its own ranks, while Demo
cracy triumphs and, usually, whisky also,
voting, to a man, for the largest liberty
in the traffic.
The moral question has no place in
politics. The effort has repeatedly been
made to drag it into that arena,—and it
always comes to grief. We need only
look at these results, to perceive the folly
which thus invites a constant defeat.
They seem to be anxious for yet another
lesson in Ohio. With a very good be
ginning at Cleveland, the outcomes will
be like it all over the State.
It has been recommended to the cler
gymen of Pennsylvania, that sermons on
temperance shall be pronounced on the
30th of May, from every pulpit in the
Commonwealth. If the spi ritual teacheis
of our people shall have the grace to con:
ceive justly, and the fidelity to utter boldly
on that day, their solemn and truthful tes
timony nyu the moral evils of intemper•
ance, it is safe to- predict that the cause
will thereby be proffioted with a solid pro
gress in the popular heart infinitely beyond
any thing of good that has ever been ac
complished by all the political agitations
of the subject in the history of American
parties, and when religious instruction,
moral suasion, the thoughtful contempla
tion of social duty, faithfully and long
persevered in, shall have.made their due
impression upon the understandings of
,the major portion of our people; then, it
-will be the time, and time enough, to de
more stringent legal enactments
and to rely upon their enforcement.
A Pile of Greenbaclts Greund Up
A. few days ago, when one of the em
ployes of Clark* Co.'s paper mill, near
the aqueduct , waa engaged in running
through the "rag-picker" a lot of old
clothing, his attention was attracted to
some bits of greenish paper which had
gone through the machine. On 'a closer
inspection thep proved to be scraps of
greenbacks, which had been dipped into
pieces by the knives in the "picker!"
!fhe man found a hat full of these old
scraps, and instead of gathering them up .
carefully, and devoting a portion of his
valuable 'time in fitting the scraps to
gether, he picked up_ a portion of the
valuable debris, and gave them to friends
as evidences of a curious discovery he
had Made of a fortune which had be
ran thiongh a mill! The scraps are off
bills of the, denominations of $5, $lO,
$2O, .t5O and $lOO, and an estimate made
from: the quantity of pieces found
indicates that not less than $3,000
was in the machine, and that
was ground up in the "rag•picker." In it
a small bunch,. of the debris taken up
- without regard the contents, there were
twenty, pieces with $lOO on them. Now
that It is too late to effect anything of
consequence in the matter, we learn that
the finder of, those greenback scraps in
tends to try and make a collection of
them; and fit the pieces together. The
money, however, has been "funded,"
and is out of circulation. The theory of
the money getting into the picker, is that
the coat which contained the money was
one of a lot of soldiers' blonses which
were collected' at different points, and
that the money was sewed up in the
breast of a blouse which belonged to an
officer who bad died in a hospital, and
-the secret of the greenbacks died with
him. Diubtless the poor fellow's family
often wondered what became of -his
money, and the rag pick,er has solved the
mystery—bat unfortunately to no gocid
purpose.--Dayton (Ohio) Jaunted. •
IN A printing office at Goiiport is a blind
compositor. His average day's work is
five thousand ems, and on several owe
'ions he has set limn seven th 'nide thou
sand. His letter is distributed for him,
and: is copy is read by his partner; !his
memory, being s° perfect that he can
re
tainirom four to slilines; when this is
finished, he cries,the last,word set, when
another sentence is read, and won.
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GAZETTE:: FAIDArlk,2_ ORM BOi-jINIP.
MUIR BORIC= TRIAL.
I•
~ usion of the Testlnrany—hagnments
•Icounsel. Mr. • Greer for Common.-
• hitt', and Mr. Thompson nor • Ge•.
- nee.
1. Wednesday Morning.
, McCandless took her seat and
• rt opened.
ames Wrap, re•called—Since Saturday
retied in; Daniel - Graham's house;
ed for Pittsburgh Dispatch; searched
in k-ease• did not examine on the line
up stairs; found Dispatches of '6O, 'Oland
'6 they were all rolled together on top
of he Mok case; there was a lot of black
in in the case stuck in a book; was
h vy; appeared to be fall; did net open
or xamine it. ,
as examined—No doers on the book
;.handled the books in looking for
pa re.
=es Wilson re-called—ls guardian
of defendant; is no natural relation; has
been his guardian two years by the next
June Court; father died seven years ago;
mother died before that; they tell me
she wes a McCandless, a sister or half-
I sister of Mr. Gm. C. McCandless. Had
not known Taylor much before he was
his guardian. [ls not permitted to state
his peculiar habits.] Never heard any
thing against his character until arter his
arrest: Lived in his neighborhood.
Croieexamlned—Taylor said he was
of _age last March. Witness has settled
his account; is still acting as his guar
dian; does not understand these matters.
Before - he became guardian had heard
persons speak of Taylor as a good, steady
boy. IDoes not know that any suspicion
rested upon him up to the time of the
murder. Had heard of the mischief done
in the neighborhpod.
.Tamet Carnahan, sworn—Liyes on the
next place to Dan. Graham, half a mile
off; knew Taylor since he carne there to
live; 1 believes he bore a good name;
never heard anything against him.
Cross-examined—Heard of the shoot
ing and the barn burning in the neigh
borhood. These troubles began when
Mr. MtiCandlees' barn was burned; never
heard his name connected with these
trouble before the murder.
Henry Simmer, sworn—Lives a mile
and a half from D. Graham; lived there
since '42; have been supeviSor; knew
defendant since the year of the frost, '6O
or '6l; worked for him; has known
h hiim
since; never heard anything agablpit
[Court give directions and bonnsel
argue over every witness about the legal
form of questions and answers.]
CrtnueeZeadlied—Heard of his cherao
tor only • once before this murder. and
this was when be going to shoot Jake
Shields. Jake lived in 4'ranklin town
ship. It was about two years ago that
he was going to shoot . Shields.
[Several persons remarked, sotto voce,
that Jake should have been shot
long ago.]
James Engi4h, re-called—Has known
defendant since '64. Has heard his rep
utation spoken of, and has often seen
him. He was a quiet boy when he saw .
him. [Witness cannot be made to un
derstand the form of the questions and
retires.]
J. - Snyder, sworn—Lives in Brady
township, Has known defendant since
a small boy. Ms general reputation is
good. • _
Croseexamined—Has heard it spoken
of; has heard the general opinion; never
1 but once before the murder heard any
thing against him; this was the circum
stance already spoken of, and thinks be
was not to blame; has heard of Jacob
Piser's house, Mr. Campbell's house, and
Mr. Stoten's house being fired into; never
heard defendant blamed for any of this
mischief. •
Conrad Snyder, sworn—Live a mile and
three-quarters from Mr. Graham's; hag.
known Taylor since a sma ll boy; hi s gen
eral reputation was good.
Cross-examined—Does not know it of
his own knowledge, only what the peo
-pie said; his character was good until af
ter this occurrence.
Henry Abert, sworn—ls prisoner's
~uncle; has known him from a baby; his
general reputation for order, peace and
quietness is good; is no blood relation; is
his wife's nephew.
Cross-examined—Didknow his general
reputation. because he knew him, and
often heard him ea
a good,
ked as
civil, quiet boy; heard his handiest
neighbors say so; heard Geo. C. McCand
less and different others speak of him as
a good boy.
.fames Wray, recalled—Has known de
fendant for eight years; has lived about
a mile and a half from him; his charac
ter was good.
Cross-examined—[ls badgered about
the form of question.] 'thinks he knows
his general reputation. Has heard a
great many of the •neighbors speak
well of him. Heard of the troubles in
the neighborhood. Heard defendant's
name connected with them. About two
years ago a boy, in witness' house, spoke
of defendant, and witness told boy it
would be well for him if ho had as good
a character as Taylor.
Daniel Graham, Jr., recalled—William
English and his mother started West
last fall. Saw them about a half mile
from their own house the night they left.
They left in the night. Witness was in
the woods hunting peons, and happened
to meet them 'on the road. Had been
down to the endue at John English's
and staid ail night;Eneis when he went
starting hunt coon! that they intended
that night. Saw them at Her
lansburg two days after. Went .in a
buggy to take them to •New Castle.
Elizabeth bad toldhim that she had been
from
on thiti case. Took them
from Harlansbarg to New Castle.
Croseexamined—Thinks it was well
known In the neighborhood that John
English was sfpout to emigrate.
Defence relate. Commonwealth calls
Daniel Graham, Esq., again—The old
story of the box of blacking; got one
since the murder and had - it in his book
case; his daughter, Mrs. 'English, and
her son, Wm. English, were at his house
on the evening of the murder.
Defense objected and the purpose of
contradicting Wm. English's deposition
was stated in writing. Proposition and
objections filed. -
Mr. Thompson argued in favor of his
objections. The declarations of Win.
English, before his deposition, whatever
they may have been, cannot be used to'
ntradict th deposition. There is no
e co vidence that at
Wm. English's attention
had been particularly called to the mat
ter previous to his deposition.
He was followed by Mr. McJankin,
who argued that as English was defend
ant's witness, ind that the Common
wealth bad no had opportunity to 157
proper ground for contradiction, they
wish to prove that on Saturday night
the witness slept with prisoner and gave
a different account that night from what
he did the next day.
C. McCandless, for 'defence; argued
that Mr. McJunkin admits that there
are no rules of evidence to permit such
contradiction, and reads frein Greenleaf
on evidence. He said that no such contra
diction could be offered in ecivil case.
Court overrules the proposition; he'
cause witnest' attention was not called to
time; place. dre. • '
• Tamea'Wilson recalled—Was preanni ,
when the testimony of Win. Engliskliffie
taken. Squire Riddle was writing , donth
the testiniony. Witness Anikedipart.#
the lueitions.:Some of the claws
saw qttOdU ol2l 4.‘ Jostles , Shad=
present. .14 . 0 °wanton asked witness
as to what he hula said to his grandfather.
Does not know that any question was
asked witnesswhat part of the
church prisoner - had sat in, or where he
sat himself; no recollection of witness
saying what part of prisoner he saw.
Had beard defendant's statement as to
where he sat: Would not state that every
Ward witness said was reduced to writ
ing. Has subs t a nce deposition; it con
tains the ce of his testimony;
were some questions not written down.
Justice asked, "Are you certain you saw
Taylor in church?" The reply was, "I
think I am certain." "Might you be
mistaken?" "Might be mistaken, but
think lam not." These questions and
answers he does not find in the writing,
but' can remember nothing - more left out.
Had not seen English that day before;
talked to English two or three weeks
after; did not ask him what part of the
church he saw prisoner in. Had a siib
riven& fur him and talked to him about
what he had stated on oath. [Common
wealth did not ask what English said
then.]
'Squire Shannon, swern—Was present
when English's testimony was taken.
Does not know that he heard all that
English stated.' Does not remember ask
ing him any questions. Heard 'Squire
Riddle ask him questions. Does not re
member the questions. Remembers
some of the answers. Does not remem
ber any questions being asked about
what part of prisoner he . had seen.
Could not say that any question was
asked about what part of the church de
lendant sat in. There were questions
and answers that are not in the deposi
tion. Does not remember what they
were. [Mr. McJunckin Persists in mak
ing witness remember.] It is his
opinion that some questioh was asked
the witness about the part of the church
in which he saw Taylor, but cannot re
collect. There is no such question in
the deposition. Cannot state anything
thing that was asked English or answer
ed that is net in the deposition.
D. Graham, Jr., re.oalled—Was pres
ent when Wm. English was examined;
recollects some of the questions and an
swers; remembers none about the part
of the church in which he sat, or in what
part he saw defendant; was asked what
positien defendant was in; was asked if
he was certain it was defendant; "yes, I
am pretty near certain; he was sitting
with his back to me, but turned his head
round so that I saw the side of his face."
Heard the deposition read and thinks
that anestion and answer is not in it; re
collects no other question or answer not
in the deposition; had conversation on
the subject with William English, both
upon and after the examination; saw him
in the church yard; talked with him a
few words. [Commonwealth again offers
to prove contradictory statements. Offer
overruled.] Witness had conversation
with English after he testified; about
an hour after; called his attention to the
subject on which he had been examined.
[Here comes the contradition, and it
must be admitted. It was interesting to
note the broad grin of satisfaction on the
rubicund facet:l - fa banging parson, while
Mr. Mo.Tunkin whispered with the wit
nese. and his look of disappointment
was amusing when Mr. McJunkln an
nounced that English's statements were
not material and would not be offered.]
Conrad Double, recalled—Saw experi
ments made witn prisoner's shot gun
lait evening.
Mr. Thompson objected on the ground
that this is not rebutting testimony, and
witness retired.
Commonwealth rested and so did de
fence. Court adjourned until 2 o'clock.
Arkgrooos sessios.
Court opened at 2 o'clock. The house
was crowded with an audience, about
one-half ladies. Mrs. McCandless lett
her usual place and took a seat where she
did not face the prisoner, and did face
the jury.
The District Attorney opened for the
Commonwealth. Ho did not intend to
shy much in this case. The indictment
was found ,in the oillcial term of his
predecessor, Mr. Riddle, who, by the
usual rules, conducts all cases began in
his term. He is quite a young man,
with a pleasant voice andar some hesitafrom
tion
of manner, which appes to arise
timidity. He swim feelingly of the
great importance and solemnity of the
case, urged the duty of upholding the
law, depreciated mistaken sympathy
ivith prisoner, because of his misfortune.
The fact of the murder was beyond ques
tion and he made some feeling remarks
abouti the deceased In her present poet
hen in the grave, where her bones are
immovable. He said blood will have
blood; trees and stones had been made to
speak ' . the prisoner's gun, the black
shawl and blacking boa all talked in
:words louder than thunder. Twice the
hand of God intercepted the murderer's
blow. Twice the hand of God had
save the innocent and noble girl, who
went about concealing the terrible threats,
made against her life, or treating them
as the idle ravings of a boy. It heaits
are brLmadog and overflowing with
pity, it is not to be expended on any one
In this house ,but on that noble girl, ly
ing, bleedin and dying in the arms of
her poor ol dmother. Here Mr. Greer
got up quite a scene as having been en
acted in the house of Mr. McCandless
on that evening, and sucoeeded in mak
ing the honored mother do her appropri
ate part in the proceedings by shedding
a few tears. Mr. Greer repeated and
dwelt upon the threats in the letters and
the prisoner's familiarity with the house
and vicinity. lie had a pluck shawl; he
had a blacking bOx; he had blue socks;
he had a hatehet. That black shawl—
that large black shawl—that black shawl
with the long fringe—what had become
Of the black shawl? Oh the black shawl,
the big black shawl which has been mis
sing since that day ! Who had carried
off the shawl?
What human wisdom could fathom the
mystery of the shawl! None, surely,
less omniscient than that of.the Jury; to
their shrewd wisdcim it must be appa
rent that the prisoner had purloined the
shawl. Yea, verily, had taken it as a
meek under which he might take - the
life of this noble gill. And when the
hand of Providence had been stretched
out, miraculously stretched out, and the
life of this old man's daughter preserved,
then.this master of ingenuity bad con
cealed the shawl hidden the black shawl,
the shawl with the long fringe, hidden it
in the oats. Yes, the oate,the sheaf oats,
the oats in Daniel Graham's barn, and in
'the night, the dead of night. The broth
er.of thie prisoner, yes, this prisoner's
'
brother had come, a f ter visiting his
'brother in Jail, In the common Jail. and
had, between Christmas and New Years,
yes, on a night, at midnight, between
Christmas and New - Years, bad feloni-
I s
misty and wickedly carried off the bl k
shawl. [We do hope he will keep . e
shawl, but think he should have n
put on the witness stand, and madeS
account for the black shaw, the p
eriy of a lunatic at large w o
had a habit of destroyinsc bet clothes,]
Then the blacking boa! Oh the blacking
box! Who but Taylor Hackenberry had
a blacking box? And what In the name
of all the &sinus and Angels became of
the blacking in that wondetfhl box? It
had, only .been in that family for three
'Mouths. There were only flys persons
lived lathe hones, and tone of them crazy.
There were , heats of visitors. The box,
'
i re
a lainbeiloom. in an open
, , pad roilc*:. ~ ...NRIP woad Pr
. . •=vies Yap the =mug *oat thiii
oboe Oh the blacking and the hatchet,
the bright hatchet! Nobody but Taylor
Hackenberry could have got a black
woolen shawl, some blacking and a
hatchet. Then, gentlemen of the Jury,
three weeks before this murder, this
prisoner, s , --this felon, this murderer,
cleane<his gun--on a wet day, cleaned
his gnu - For what purpose could he
have cleaned his gun? Why, gentlemen
of. the jury, to kill and murder this
noble girl. And so on to the end of the
chapter.
Mr. Thompson, for the defence, re,
minded Ithe jury- that no man could be
called upon to perform a more , grave and
solemn duty than that devolving upon
the counsel. Since the world began it
has been filled with blood and crime.
But thel records of every nation, in its
criminal law, more than by any other,
best prove its barbarism or civilization.
The noblest tongues and pens nave been
occupied in withstanding the bloody
code of an eye for an eye and a tooth for
a t00th. 4 ,, He made a lost thrilling and
eloquent address against capital punish
ment; but rejoiced that they were not
called upon to set aside the existing laws
in following out their convictions
in this case. There was nothing
to be, said of the deceased, who
is beyend the reaeh of all human tribu
nals. llie urged in general terms that
there t!fits no proof of, the guilt of the pris
oner. I Be Spoke touchingly of the rela
tionship of the prisoner• to his accusers.
Theseine bosom nurtured their parents,
and they , his' foster parents, who
ghoul have stood by him, an orphan.
are seeking his life, at the hands of the
jury. Will his life restore their child?
Will it heal a wound? He repeated the
theory of the Commonwealth. The man
who blamed the barn did the shooting
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three weeks before; the man who did
this s Obting came to the hone, on that
Sand y, in the black shawl; . the man
who me in the black shawl committed
the m 'rder. He argued that the burning
of Mr. McCandless' barn was no sign of
malice against his daughter, and that he
had admitted in his testimony
that he had suspected Oliver neer,
with whom he had had a quar
rel about the settlement of an estate.
At the; time of firing the shots Taylor
was as their son—had slept and lived in
their house, and could not have conceal
ed his Step and voice. Both Mr. and Mrs.
McCandless admitted that they thought
the voice was like Oliver Piser's. They
feared'; to admit their suspicions, because
they had been threatened with a suit for
slander by . Oliver Piser. He went very
clearly over the testimony about the re
volver purchase; more than t*o years
after that revolver was fired in Mr. Mc-
Candless' house, and the absurdity , of
the statement that 'no search was made
for the marks of balls until Taylor point
ed them out. Ann knew that the first shot
struck near the clock, because it rang
the bell, and vet Mr. and Mrs. and Mary
McCandless swore that they did not
think there were any balls in that shoot
ing. and therefore they had not searched
for any: He was very severe, and justly
so, on the effort to connect he prisoner
with the Sunday transaction, and the
contradictions of Mr. Graham about that
black shawl and bright hatchet. He
exhibited Mr. Graham's hatchet to the
jrtry and called their attention to the
evident efforts to t ear it from rust, and
argued from this and his contradictions,
abont where it was used in the coal
bank, and when it was ground, and the
wonderful prescience which called Mr.
Graham to swear now, after eight
months, that just two pair of shoes. little
shoes, had been blacked out-of his lox
in two months. . In a house often visited
by married eons and daughters, and
their families, this old old man could
swear that only two pair of shoes bad
been blacked out of it, and we are asked
to believe the prisoner blacked his face
out of it, when 'the witnesses swore that
the disguised man wore a black false face.
But; I cannot pretend to follow his able
argument of three and a half hours, and
must close for the mail.
Court adjourned at six o'clock.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
.4The lidissoun Publishers' Annual
Convention will be held at St. Louis on
thO 19th of May.
-Hon. C. W. Walton has been reap
pointed Associate Justice or the Supreme
Court of Maine. He has already served
seven years.
A passenger car on the Rensselear
and Saratoga road ran off the track near
Witerford,New York, Wednesday night,
and was upset. Several persons were
bridged, none seriously.
eneral Ames, of has is
sued au order to Assessors to proceed to
enroll the names of all persons eligible
fot jury duty, without regard to race,
color or previous condition.
;-General Sherman presented diplo-
MRS to the graduating class of artillery
at , Fortress Monroe, on Tuesday, then
visited the Navy yard and returned to
Washington by the way of Richmond.
—Murray 45E Matson's distillery, at
Spring Bay, Woodford county, Illinois,
was burned to the ground Wednesday
night. Loss $18,000; insured in Peoria
for 14,500. The work of an incendiary.
—The old freight depot of the German
town and l'lnladelphia Railroad, at Phil
adelphia, *as bathed Wednesday night.
Loss heavy. ThO cars and freight and
surrounding building were much dam
aged.
—The pleura-pneumonia ihas again
broken out among the cattle in A.UliOl4
New York, on the farm of A. P. Balls.
As before, it seems to yield to the ree
hae of carbonic acid, whioh is the rem f edy,
applied. -
—Edington Fulton, new 'Surveyor. of
Baltimore, has appointed Win. IL Tay
lor, a subordinate in his office, the first
Appointment of a oolored man by a Fed-'
oral officer in Maryland. A committee
of colored citizens waited on Mr. Fulton
and thanked him.
—Miss Ellen Corlock, a young woman,
died in Hoboken, - from alleged mal
practice on the part of several New York
physicians. Louis Weisweltor, , her se
ducer, was committed. without bail, the
Judge remarking it was a clear case of
manslaughter.
—The white woman, Martha Sprague
andn black man,Alex. Cornell, `arrested
itPeekskill, ew York, on suspicion of
having jointly murdered an infant be
longing to the former, have been dig.
charged, the Coroner's jury not having
sufflaient evidence to hold them.
—The inquest on ,flie Long Island Rail
road slaughter has been adjourned until
'May sth. At the conclusion of the• pro
:ceedings on Wednesday a dioagreement
,occurred between one of the witnesses
'and the Ibreman; about a piece of Iron
'picked up by the latter at the scene of
!the disaster.
—Ackland (New Zealand) advices
state that a terrible massacre occurred at
White Ciilfs, Taranka, February 16th,
during which Lieut. - Gascoyrie's wife,
family and six settlers were killed. Out
settlers were coming ,into the town in a
state of alarm, public offices were closed
and ensigns at half mast.
—There is now no longer's doubt 'that
the reported disaster on board the steam
er Urilde...onthe Missouri; river, some
thirty miles above City, was it
pure fletion;so far aLthe explosion of
the' boiler and the lose &life was con
cerned: The boat ''struck' a snag and
Mil
sunk, and Mt is all there is about it.
Not g single life was lost.
—Nancy C. Miller was arrested at New
York 'Yesterday as a hotel thief, con
fessed her crimes and implicated Mrs. • .
Lynch, a jeweler under the New York
Hotel, Keys & Judd, doing business on
Broadway, and one Singman, of Nassau.
street, as receivers of property stolen by
her, to the amount of nine or fan thou
sand dollars. -
-An auxiliary btint in the rolling
mills at Hamilton, Catufda West, burst
Wednesday night, carY•ving away the
roof and side of the shed in which it was
situated. One man named Burns, who.
was attending the boiler was killed, and
five others injured, but not seriously.
Amongst them is a stranger .named Mo-
Nabe, from Trenton, Illinois, who had
just gone in to see the mill. The others
were employes.
—The Jury in the Haggerty Case in
Brooklyn, returned a verdict that Hag
gerty's death was caused by beating at.
the hands of Dennis Eagon and John
Hennessey,'and censured Capt. Rhodes
and Sergeant Weeks, of the pollee, for
not properly attending to Haggerty
when brought to the station insensible.
They say the frequent beating of intox
icated men on the bead by the police and
brutalitvi practiced in police stations as
revealehn their investigation are din
graceful:
•
Philadelphia Industrial League.
My Telegraph to the Pitt bdrgh tiazette.]
PHILADELPHIA, April 29.—A meeting
was held to-day at the Board of Trade
Rooms in favor of protection to Ameri
can
industry, called at the instance of the
Pennsylvania Industrial' League. Mor-, • •
ton McMichael presided. The report of - •
the League was read and resolutions
adopted which are to be presented to the
Congressional Committee of Ways and .
Means. They recommend a general tariff
law, embracing the entire range of im
ported goods, and superceding all former
tariff laws, duties being made specific so
far as conveniently possible, and high
enough to afford fair wages and reason
able profits to such. American working
men
and employes as apply themselves •
with assiduity, skill and intelligence to
industries suited to our condition and re
sources. 0
Markets by Telegraph.
NEW :ORLE•NS, April 29.=--Cotton stiff
at 28®28X„c for muldlinga; sales, 2,550
bales; receipts, 1,519 bales; exports,
276 bales.' Gold, 131./,. Exchange ster,
ling,l46X. New Yorksight, X, premium,
Sugar dull atlo®llc for common, and
13350 for prime: Molasses unchanged.
Flour dull at ;5,62 for &Meiling, 10,75®
6,00 for double extra, and ;6,25 for
treble extra, Corn lower at 75@760 for
white, 76c for yellow. Oats firmer 70@71.
Bran, $1,50®1;60. Hay firmer at ;30,00
for prime. Pork dull at $31,75@32.
Bacon dull 13X©17Xc for shoulders
and sides. Lard quiet at 18X®19c for
tierce,and 19X@21 for keg. Coffee
unchanged.
NASHVILLE. April 29.—Cotton quiet;
low. middling 25c, and good ordinary 24
@24:4c-
TEN MILES from Havre, France, a ye-
locipede amateur was resting by the road •
side. A man came up and began to ex-
amine the iron steed. He was so desirous
to ascertain how anybody could maintain •
their equilibrium on so frail a machine,
that the owner asked him to try it. He
got on and wriggled most- awkwardly for
some twenty yards, when he started of
with skillful speed, and soon disappeared
down the road, leaving the owner to foot
his way back to Havre.
. SHOULDER BRACES.
The value of these appliances to human health,
and to promote._ and extend human life, can
scarcely be - over estimated. When we contem
plite the vast 'number of individuals who have
acquired the habit of stooping, and look at the
many crooked and ill.shaetil pet eong, - the useful
news of these.appliances are forcibly • uggested te
our minds. Andtt is not inerelyto those who
suffer is the depriVallon of heallli that.we speak;
thousands of others who are apparently Secure
In its enjOyment would be compensated, a thou
sand times by the constant wearing one of these
useful, we might say nceseary, artic,es of hu
man apparel. The narrow and contracted chest
is as much a subject .for proper physiological
training as is the =Ada Icing and keeping the
stomach and other vital organs in a healthful and
proper condition, to duly Perform their appro•
ariate functions. Every one understands, with
out a newspaper admonition, that if a leg or arm '
- be broken, an artery severed, or a rcapture any
where shows Itself, that these are objects worthy
of our deepest care and solicitude. Then)why sot,
when you observe the human body becoming
Lnibrvated. the chest contracting into an hour
glass shape, and the other vital powers sinking
to decay -why not seek out a remedy that will
correct these growing evils, which not only con
tern year present ease and comfort. but likewise
thed future prospect of yourself and those of
I your immediate kitidred who will one day cecup
your places in life? The Coat in money Is nme
trifle. The remuneration to the health. an
strength can hardly be weighed In the same bill
ance. It ought to he remembered that ihe ordeal
column la not only of priniary importance to the
physical, but likewise to the mental well being.
The health of the human body is as much respell:-
Mile to the position of the organs, and their be l '-
iing in place, writ is to physinand due regulation
of diet and regimen. We have known persona,
hundreds of Ahem, with narrow and hollow
chests, who scarcely took in air enough to vitall-
Ire half the bitted, ependlly
_restored to health
• without an ounce of-medicine, -so called, by `the •
use of one of the Shoulder' Braces. We- have
known others who have enlarged the capacity of
the chest as much as Six. or seven inches In ctr- ,
cumference by tile same means, and who can
doubt their utilitY in all cases where the tenden
cy to Consumption or any other of the disesures„of
'the respiratory organs are at allimminent.
These Braces are sold and applieflat, also all
other mechanical appliances. at DR. KEYSER'S
NEW MEDICINE STOKE, NO. 107 LIBERTY
STREET, TWO DOORS {ROM. ST. CLAIR.,
AND' HIS CONSULTATION ROOMS,
No. 120 PENN STREET, from 10, A. M. until
4 F.
COMMON EIP.NSE
Rules the mug of the people, whatever the mis
named and misanthrop'c philosophergemay say to
the contrary. Sho w them a good thing, let its
merits be clearly demorotratea, and they will not
hesitate' to give it their most cordial pat•onage.
Thetnichtes have already ratified the judgment of
a phreciau eoncerningthe virtues of HOSTET
TRIVI3 SITTERS, as maybe seen in thelnamense
otthls medicine that are annualli sold •
in every section of the laud. It is now recognized
as greatly superior to all other rear:dies yet de
vised for diseases of tbe digestive organs, such as
'diarrhoea, dysentery, illy: petles, and for thr •
eous fevers that arise from the derangeme of
thu,e portions of the ay Stem. limiettees name
is rapidly becoming a 'household word, from
Maine to Texas, froth the shores of the Atlantic
to the Peolfic. Thee" calebiatsd STOMACH
BITTERS have doubtless treated as much sensa
tion to community far their remarkable cures
as nay ether medicine est olt. `lliesrtactthatln
the Minds of many persons a prejudice exists
against .what are called patent miedielnee but
why should this prevent 'your resorting to an at ,
tlcle,thst has such an array of tee/cm:my t up-
Portlt asIIOSTEI TElrti STOMACH BITTERS,
phyalolanispreacribelt; why should you di card
it? Judges, usually-considered men' of talent,
'hut , and do use it in their fisna Ilas; why should
you reject ig Letnot your prejtulite jinn, your .
reason:, 1. 0 atia evarla4log injury, of your health.
It is the only preperationortha laud that Is re-
Aoki* mg ill cases: and Is• therefore worthy of
she Consideration of the *filleted. The BITTZUS
are pleasant to thetiate 'agreeable-:in their
rests. an altoge th er lathatild ate teaks or reme
dyßtr,49ll,ll49ll? 7 • • ;.. • „
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