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OL. 31.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUxNTY, PA., FEBRUARY 5, 1874.
NO. 38.
Published by Theodore Schoch.
if is -T 'lHr yearin adfmnce nd if not
I;Jff teth -i..t t the year, two dollars iul fifty
!lMn',e,1 until all arrearage are paid,
.r itif ti.n ol lh Editor.
1 f 7urusiaet9 of one 8iure of (eight If nca) or
1 ,,e or tlu-e mertions $1 50. Bach additional
JOB TlMt.TING,
or ALI KINDS,
r itrj in ihe his nest rtyle of the Art, and the
mit re!on.ttle terms.
WILLIAM S. REES
purveyor, Conveyancer and
Eeal Estate Agent.
larms, Timber Lands and Town Lots
J FOR SALE.
1 1 cTi -e next door above S. Rees news Depot
1 J l 1 r below the Corner Store.
J ,r"l. 20, l.-CS-tf.
DR. J. LANTZ,
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;ijr r'JOli ailvl .tlL-Hia uitJi jl'i-iii.ioi-,
it i, (. hi 1i-e "a M iin Street, in the second
. rtir M'.iltuii'K 'rirk l.ui.diiie. nearly onpo-
, i if s:r."ii Nli'in; llme, and be ll.itters himself
t ! ri; i:ru rri ootisiuu prai-m-e u me iiiosi
4,i I i-ai ii I uUt'nii it to aI matters pertaining
,,. iii..f - i-ni.tiMl he l fully jblc t rrfrtn alt
, 4:r. i iii ! leiiial line la Ilie mustciirful.tante-
. 1 1 . .1 1 I'll inn iirr.
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. i.. t:- i.itii.mi f ArlitKMal reelh un Riit:er.
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vnnkuitlit locxptrieiw ei. or to Himj-c
it A .UUlli:'. - I'm I J. m. i. i j
yt. J. ii. .saiLi.i.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
:7;ie 1-t iloor above Stroudsburg House,
uinn e lt door above Pot Office,
O lire lionrs from 9 to 12 A. r., from 3 to 5
iKlofr.M. May3:My
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PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
Id ;iie nl.l r.tiice of Dr. A. Iloeves Jackson,
4 i.i.mv, i-nriK-r of arah and Franklin street.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
J. ZS. J. SMTTCRSOX,
liPESlTIXG AND MEfHAMrAL DEMIST,
u-S-ijj l.ictfil in Eat St ronlsbti rpr, Pa., an-
Dt i'i. t ilial lie i now treitarei to insert aru-
k ! if-L-th in ilie most beautiful and life-like
ti; ii.-r. AIsd. great atteniion given to lining
Tr-iTviim ilie natural teeth. Teeth ex
tBn'tt'J without pain by ne of Nitrons Oxide
(Jb. All t!irr work incident to the tirofesMon
r4ii" t!ie nuKt skillful and aj)jrovcd style.
w jrii attended to promptly and warranted.
if. irjo rr.jn;ihle. Patronage of the public
i i.-i:f J.
in A. W. Ixder's new building, op
rvite Anulumink House, East Stroudsburg,
July 11, 1873 ly.
D
U. . I,. PECK,
Surgeon Oentixt.
Announces lint hiving just returned from
De ital Collegs, he id fully prepared to make
tii.fic:al teeth in the most beautiful and life
J.ia manner, and to fill decayed teeth ac-cHi-trr
to th rno-t i-n proved method.
Tvptti exfract'-d without pain, when de
t. '5.1. by tlie use of PJitr.ius Oxide G8,
'i iittis entirely hirmtess. Kepairing' of
iiiie.t u-atjy done. All work warranted.
i irT re ioitahle.
ilce in J. (J. Keller's new Brick build
'. Mai i S reet, Stroudeburj, Pa.
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Tlli:.S II. 1T4L.TO.V,
; Attorney at Latr,
J5, in the building formerly occupied
L M. liurson, and opposite the Strouds
i Hank, Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
jun 13-tf
A Ii:RIC t HOTEL.
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V he Kuuen1er would inform titc public that
t lu lea.sed the ho axe formally kept by Jacob
i etht. ia the Toroug:h of Stroudsburg, Pa.,
i 1 liavinj repainted and refurninhed Uie same,
prepared to entertain all who may patronize
l'a. It ik the aim of the proprietor, to furn
.rfy ij-pri jr accommodations at moderate rate
J wi'l fjure no pains to promote the coni
of the guests. A liberal share of public
:rona?c wilicited.
J rd r72-tf. D. J j. PLSLE.
YI,",'K HOUSE,
HONESDALE, PA.
j central location ot any Hotel In town.
N l R. W. KIPLE k SON,
v . J -Ham .street. Proprietors.
:T,,.jr:u;m-?. 1873. ly. .
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IAt'K4WA.VA HOUSE.
01'1'OSITE THE DEPOT,
Kat Stroudsburg, Pa.
R. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor.
; i ie riAit contaiiiK the choiest Liquors and
V jHI'K ""PP1 wth the best the market
rds. Charge moderate. may 3 1872-tf.
T ITSO.VS
"i lllllii Vornnn llninii
117 and 119 North Second SL
ABOVE ARCH,
PHILADELPHIA.
Nay 30, 1672- ly.
KV. RDVVARD A VV T 1 SO M'S fnf W i I.
I t liam-burgh, N. Y.) Reeipe for CON-
t-nri IONaad ASTHMA earefttlly cota-
funded at
j HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG 8T0BJS.
r- Medicines Fresh and Pure.
'" 21. lT.J W. HOLLINSIIEAD.
THE MONROE COUNTY
Co-OperativB Life Insurance
COMPANY.
STROUDSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.
Limit 5,000 Members.
CHARTER PERPETUAL.
Any person of sound body and mind, ot
either sex, not !ess than fifteen nor more
than sixty-five yeara of age, and not enga
ged in any occupation, exceedingly danger
ous to life, may become a member of this
Company, by paying an admission fee, as
follows:
From 15 to 40 years of aga $3 00
44 40 to 50 " " 5 00
" 50 to 60 4 10 00
" 60 to 65 20 00
And ore dollar for Tolicy.
No other charges will be made at any
time, excepting one dollar and ten cents for
each member who dies.
The advantages of this COMPANY over
the ordinary Life Insurance Companies are,
that the fees are eo small that the man of
moderate nv-ons can secure a competency
to his fani ly at a trifling cost, and payable
at such lorig intervals, and such smiil sums,
that no prrson can be inconvenienced by
thm. This compmy cannot fall; no
panics can affect it. Person holding cer
tificates of membership in this Company,
.ire sure in case of death that their families
or heirs will get as many dollars as there
are members in the Company.
Xo restrictions are placed upon traveling
or residence.
Applications for insurance, or informa
tion, may be made to the Directors or Secre
tary, at Stroudsburg, Pa.
DIRECTORS.
R. S. Staples, H. R. Biesecker,
M. F. Coolbaugh, Win. Fine,
Kindarus Shupp, J. H. Fetherman,
C. D. Brodhead, Peter Gruver,
E. B. Dreher.
R. S. STAPLES, Pres't.
M. A. De L. Van Hcrn, Sec'y.
March 6, 1373 tf.
MONROE COUNTY
Mutual Fire Iusurance Company.
STROUrSBURG, PA.
CHARTER PERPETUAL.
The By-L-jws of this Company, and the
regulations governing insurance have, re
cently been very materially changed, pla
cingit upon a b-ieis equal to that of any
Fire Insurance Company in the State.
Important among these changes ore the
following, via:
Policies, instead of being perpetual, are
iftued for five years.
All property is classified and the rate of
premium is fixed according to the risk of
the properly.
Premium note are taken, and all as
sessments are made on the notes.
Property is insured for not more than
two thirds of its actu.il cash value, and the
full amount of insurance paid in case of loss,
provided the loss be equal to the amount of
insurance.
"Annual assessments" only are made, ex
cept in cases of heavy loss, and where a
special assessment is necensary.
The Company is therefore prepared to in
sure property upon terms much more desira
ble than under the old system.
Applications may be made to any of the
Managers, Surveyors, or Secretary.
MANAGERS.
StogrJell Stokes,
J. Depue LeBar,
Richard S. Staples,
Silas L. Drake,
Chas. D. Brodhead,
Robert Boys,
William
Jacob Knecht,
John Edinger.
Francis Hagerman,
Jacob Stouffer,
Theodore Schoch,
Thos. VV. Rhodes,
Wallace.
STOGDELL STOKES, Pres'l.
E. B. Dbeher, Secretary and Treasurer.
SURVEYORS.
For Monroe County:
Silas L. Drake, Thos. W. Rhodes,
William Gilbert, J. Depue LeBar,
Geo. G. Shafer, Jacob Stouffer.
For Wayne County:
F. A. Oppelt, Jos. L. Miller.
For Pike County :
Samuel Detrick.
For Northampton County:
Richard Camden.
For Carbon County:
Samuel Ziegenfus.
0r"The Managers meet regularly at
the Secretary's Office in Stroudsburg, on
the first Tuesday of each month, at 2
o'clock P. M.) May 15,'73-tf
CAN YOU TEI.L WHY IT IS
that when any one comes to Strouds
burg to buy Furniture, they always inquire
for McCarty. Furniture Store? Sent. 26
BLANKS OF ALL KINDS fur Safe at
this Office.
WHAT CAN WOMEN DO ?
BY MRS. M A. FREERMAN.
Solomon Brown had five daughters
Tht oldest of these was twenty six, the
youngest seventeen. In some of the
heathen countries it is considered a
misfortune when a girl is born. Solo
mon Brown's mind may have been eol
ored with this heathenism- though be
owned a pew in the church and coe
tributed conscientiously to its donations
for he shook his head in solemn dis
approval as his family increased, declar
ing that girls were, and had been since
the world began, a failure.
Dear little Mrs. Brown emphatically
declared her skepticism as to this broad
assertion, saying, with some spirit, ''that
the girls could not be dispensed with, and
as the Great Father had seen fit to create
them, it must have been with the con
sciousness that they might be pronounced
good. Of course they were good." She
would just ask Mr. Brown what there was
that might be said truthfully in disparage
ment of their own children ?
"If they were boys, Lucy," said Brown,
footing up a dry goods bill, "they would
be self supporting. If, for instance,
Matilda had been named Solomon and
you know that name has fallen to the
eldest in our family for generations Bhe,
or be rather, might have learned a trade,
aud would now be able not only to care
for himself, but to render needful aisis
tance to his family. I am sure I never
blamed Betsey Trotwood, though I don't
understand her, that she couldn't forgive
David for not being a girl, I have never
forgiven one of my girls that they dis
appointed me."
"Dear me, Solomon, I am sure the girls
are doing the best they can. Matilda is
a very good dressmaker "
"Bosh !" cries Solomon, impatiently,
"the country is overruni with dress
makers. I tell you all this feathers,
fuss and flummery is ruining us that is
the people. Don't you understand every
additional girl is an additional burden to
someone? How much do you suppose.
Lucy, I paid out for ribbons last year 7
Only one hundred dollars."
'But, my husband, there were five of
the girls, you know, not counting mylf,
and that makes twenty dollars only, for
each. I am sure that isn't extravegant
at all. There's Deacon Smart's Sallie
paid that much for one Roman sash. Our
girls are very handy about turning tieir
things, and fixiag them up as good as iew.
There were only twenty four yards in the
dears' dresses this spring that is in the
dress of each while Mrs. Million used
thirty five, and I must say that our girls'
were much the prettiest."
"And would have been prettier still if
they had been made out of eight," growl
ed Solomon, desperately footing up the
accounts again.
Figures are obstinate facts. Solomon,
in faciog the sum total of united columns,
beame an obstionate man.
"I tell, you, Lucy, we can't go on in
this way, that's certain. Something must
be done. Why don't they got married V
But that was a useless question, for tLis
was a New England State, and there were
several thousand more women than men,
and as one man was allowed only one wife,
it was quite impossible that all could be
provided with a husband.
'Dear me, Solomon," said the little
wife, smiling humorously, "you forget
that this isn't Utah that there is ac
tually no one to whom we may seal the
darliDgs ; that you, yourself, would quite
disapprove of their going husband hunt
iog."
Now, while Solomon had been talking
thus complainingly and confidentially to
his wife, his five unappreciated daughters
had been listening from the next room.
"The old bear," cried Matilda, the
oldest, under her breath.
"Poor papa," said Luey, the youogeat.
her blue eyes full of tears.
"Poor papa, indeed," snapped out the
second sister. "I do believe he begrudges
us the bird's allowance which we eat.
"Bird's allowance ! Josephine. I'm
sure there isn't a heartier family of girls
in this couotry than ours. No canary's
portion would do for me of that I'm
sure. I do think it a shame that five
great girls, as able to work as we are,
should depend upon one little, broken
down man for their suppott. Cone, now,
Silda, isnt it ridiculeus? Don't you
think that we onght to do something V
"I'm sure," MatiIJa said, "that I have
been trying just the best that I knew
how. You know I bought the machine,
and then then "
"Well," Lucy said, laughing, "poor
papa had to make the payments on it
"I'm sure I couldn't help that, because
I had expected to get plenty of sewing
to do, and sewing, you see--
"Is a drug in the market. No, 'Tilda,
and Josephine, and Sarah, and Flora, all
of those pretty, traditional ways ot a wo
man turning an honest peony are out of
date. I've been thinking this over, and
I've made op my mind. Come, girls,
will you stand by me? Have you the
courage to lay aside your dainty suppers,
to encase your feet in heavy shoes, te let
the sun kiss brown freckles on jour lace,
in fact to wear a bloomer ?
"A bloomer I" the four cicd together.
Yes. bit dears, for of course the work
that I. have laid out for us to do couldn't
begone in trains. I have been thinking
that we bad better take Jacob Sloan's
farm for a year," and Miss Lucy, as bhe
spoke, opened a pocket knife and com
raenced whittling a bit of stick in true
Yankee style.
"Jacob Sloan's farm,!" they cried,
aghast.
"Yes, dean ; I was over talking to
Jacob yesterday, and he's quite delighted
that we should have thought of making
the experiment. He is sure, he says,
that it will be a success. Only think,
girls, how nice it would be if we could
help the old father now, after all of the
trouble he has had with us. And what
a triumph, too, if we could prove to him
that girls are a blessing ; at least if not
exactly that, still worth being born.
What say you? Will you put your
names to the contract 7 Come, now, don't
be cowardly, not try to find excuses for
shirking a duty. Jacob never had five
more 'able bodied people than we are."
"But what will the world say ? And
then dear Lucy, you have had an offer,
you know. Will Frank Lawler be
satisfied that his future wife should eu
gage in an unladylike occupation ?"
"If he is dissatisfied that a woman
should do what she may do well, I'm very
glad to have an opportunity of lerning it
before I'm Mrs. Frank Lawler, instead of
Lucy Brown. If I have girls, you may
rest assured that they shall be self sup
porting, qiite indpendent of ontside help
towards gaining a livelioood. If -they
have a talent for music above the ordinary
possession, they may become teachers.
If not, they will not spend four hours a
day in useless beating of their white,
helpless fiogers against some ill used
piano keys. If they are greatly gifted
with superior intelligence, they may go
into the professions ; if not, they will
Ieran trades I don't mean milliners and
dressmakers, and so on but nice little
light trades, like watchmaking and engrav
ing and drafting, and, indeed, heavier
ones, if they have the muscle. We all
have muscle. There is no excuse that
we should remain idle. The would is
full of work, and I can'-t understand why
any honest calling should be unwomanly.
Come, girls, let us go and sign the coo
tract which binds us to work on old
Jacob's farm."
"Dear me, Solomon," said the wife
Lucy in the evening, "you could not
goess what those girls have done."
"Perhaps purchased each a new silk.
growled Solomon, without lifting his eyes
front his paper.
'No, mded not, cried the wife in
dignantly. "They've rented Jaeob Sloan's
farm eighty acres, and twenty of it in
fruit"
"What!" cried Solomon, the paper
falling helplessly at his feet. "You don't
surely mean our girls not Matilda, and
Josephine, and Sarah, and Flora, and
Lucy 7"
"I mean no one else s girls, surely,
the wife replied, a little crossly. "They
take possession in the morning. Jacob
Sloan is to find everything, and they are
to have one half."
"I'll just tell you, Lucy, what it is.
This is the most consummate piece of
humbug I ever heard of. It will be a
dead failure, and they'll make themselves
the laughing stock of the whole neighbor
hood. Farmiug, indeed ! Y hy, 'lilda is
that afraid of her hands that she never
sweeps, even, without gloves ; and Flora
wraps her bead in a towel to dust 1 ve
seen Josephine do the breakfast things
with the dish rag clinging to a fork, and
Sarah wraps her fingers with a bit of
cloth, each one separately, if she has
vegetables to prepare. Brave farmers
they will make !" And Solomon Brown
went back to his paper with a scornful
chuckle.
Solomon, too, was some of a fogy.
Women were women, and women they
must remain to the cod of the chapter.
A great pity, be bad often said that it
was so, but nature couia sol be torturcu
out of her old, well worn channels by
education. Eve, he considered as having
been a vicious sort of little body, bend
ing poor Adam's nose down close to the
grindstone, and there her daughters had
relentlessly held it, through all of the
long years since that first tragedy.
Solomon believed in progression. He
thought that the sciences might be bet
ter understood ; that new discoveries
were to be made ; that the Atlantic would
be crossed in a bolloon ; but Solomon's
radicalism didn't include the coming wo
man. She was to be what she had been
from the beginning. So he pooh-poohed
at his daughters' farming not believiog
that any good thing should come out of
Nazareth.
It was an up hill road to those five
dainty daughters of Solomon Brown. But
in one thing they resembled their father.
They were obstinate, and when they
learned his prediction as to their failure,
they were quite determined not to fail.
They were up early and worked late.
Their straw berties were a success. They
gave employment to a number of girls in
the village in gathering their small fruits,
thus recognizing the true policy, that
women must help each other, ihey
kept one hired man, and under hi in
struetioo these young ladies learned to
turn a ready hand to all kinds ot farm
labor.
Old Solomon Brown'e "pooh pooha"
?rew less eranhatio. and he began to
speak with a aort of shamefaced pride of
"our girls' place." Then, when the fame
of these women's farming bad traveled
far, and people came from a distance to
iDfpeet personally their success. Solomon
began to feel proud in saying! "Yes, si',
they are my.girls."
"Your girls are all boy9, then," said
one, smiling, quoting Rip Van Winkle.
"Just as good as boys," said Solomon
Brown, blushing at the retraction of old
sentiments. Bat theories must fall be
fore convictions, and well filled wheat,
fine potatoes, good corn, etc., were more
convincing to Solomon of his daughters'
worth than volumes favoring the "subjec
tion of woman."
Solomon Brown's daughters still bold
Jaeob Sloan's farm. . Luey, the young
est, is married to Frank Lawler, but
instead of her going home to him, aa is
the manner of the world, he came home
to her.
Under the homestead laws a woman
that isn't at the head of a family that
is, a widow cannot pre-empt land. If
this was not the case, I do believe that
one of Solomon Brown's would go west
and take up apiece of land. As it is,
they are all going in the spring, and
Solomon will enter a hundred and sixty
acres in his own name, which in reality
will belong to his daughters, as it will
be purchased with the profits of their
farming Jacob Sloan's land. Our Fire
side Friend.
THE SIAMESE TWINS.
Further Details of their Deaths An
other Physician's Account Negotia
tions for a Post-Mortem Examination.
A New York Herald correspondent
writing from Mount Airy, N. C, gives
the following account of an interview with
Dr. William Ilollingsworth, a brother of
Dr. Joe Ilollingsworth, now in Philadel
phia, relative to the death of the Siamese
Twins :
Dr. Holliugsworth explaiued that
Chang had an attack of paralysis after re
turning from Europe last year ; that he
had been suffering from pneumonia or
severe lung cold for the past month, and
that he (the doctor) believed that it was
exposure before he had sufficiently
recovered from this malady that precipi
tated his death. On Friday Eng was as
well as usual, Chang not apparently very
much worse. Eng was in excellent spirits,
and seemed remarkably cheerful and
sprightly, Chang, on the other hand,
from the debility caused by his paralysis
and cold, together with a certain stupidity
resulting from the use of too much stimu- j
lant, was fretful, sullen and snappish when
spoken to, which of late was his accus
tomed conduet. 1
All the family retired at the usual
hour. Eog'8 wife and children slept up
stairs ; the twins slept down stairs. It
was five o'clock in the morning when one
of Eog's sons heard, as he thought, a
call from his uncle Chang. Responding
aa quickly as possible, he came down
stairs, and, goiug to the side of the bed
upon which his uncle Chang lay, found
him lying, apparently. in a deep sleep, but
was startled by the ghastly and singular
appearance of the features, which wore
an expression of pain, if not agony, and
were much darker than he had ever seen
them before.
After a closer examination the boy dis
covered his uncle was dead, and uttering
an oft repeated cry of "Uncle Chang is
dead ! alarmed the whole househould,
all of whom speedily came pouring into
the room in their night dresses.
The tumult caused by the death of
Chang
the hurry and noise in sending
for the doctor aud for Chang's wife and
children, must have so terribly shocked
Log that his nervous system became com
pletely prostrated, and he never uttered
a word except the single expression, "And
I must die, too."
Two hours from the diseovery of
Chang 8 death Drs. Wui. Iloillingsworth
and Taylor arrived, only tofiud the twins
dead.
Correspondent. How long do you
think Eng had been dead when you ar
rived 7
Dr. Ilollingsworth. Not more than
ten or fifteen minutes.
Correspondent. Do you think his
death was caused by any vital connection
or artery passing from one to the other
through the ligament that united them 7
Dr. ilollingsworth. I am confident
that Eug's death was produced by no
such cause.
Correspondent. Do you not believe
the existence of some such vital connco
tion through the ligament?
Dr. Ilollingsworth I do not, because
I have attended them when one was sick
and the other in good health, and when
there was as much as tweoty beats dif
fereoce to the minute in their pulsation
Correspondent What, then, in your
opinion, caused Eng s death f
Dr. Ilollingsworth. The great shock
and terror inspired by such a uuion with
death, added to which wan the belief
which prevailed between them that when
one died the other would. 1 hese com
bined to destroy his mental faculties and
paraljse his physical energies, and he
uccumbed to the dread visitation.
Correspondent You do not thiok,
then, that if the ligament had been sev
ered bis life would have been saved 7
Dr. Ilollingsworth I do not. I rather
think that any operation, unless perform
ed immediately upon the discovery of
Chang's death, would have hastened his
(Eog's) death.
WHAT AN OLD FRIEND SAYS-
Upon my arrival at Mount Airy I
fouud the residence of the twins was sev
eral miles from the village, and, the hour
be'iDg very late, I was unable to go there.
As the doctor's information was not en
tirely satisfactory I next sought and ob
tained an interview with Mr. Isaac Arm
field, an old intimate friend of the twiu.,
who was present and helped them out af
ter their demise.
"Mr. Armfield," I asked, "is it your
opinion that Eng died from the shock or
friiiht occasioned by his brother's death?"
Mr. Armfield. No, sir, it is not. I
am as well satUfied that blood flowed from .
o. . to the other through that connecting
I 'anient as that the same blood flows in
my right aud left arm.
Correspondent. Then you think it
was the death of Chang that precipitated
the death of Eng ?
Mr. Armfield. Yes, sir. After Chang'e
death the blood from Eng's body flowed
into his, but there being no responsive
vitality it could not flow back, so that
Eng died from exhaustion and loss of
blood, and not from any shock or fright.
Up to the time of En-'s death the liga
ment, which is some eight inches in
length, was warm as far as -hcre it en
tered Chang's body, which was cold at
the time. The very nsture of the liga
ment, which is four inches wide and as
thick as my wrist, passing from the abdo
men of one to the other, and in the cen
tre of which is the navel of the
twins, is- proof positive that the sauia
blood that flowed in the veins of one flowed -also
in those of the other.
Correspondent. Why, then, des the
doctor persist in saying that it was from
a shock or fright that Eng died ?
Mr. Arms-field. I, do not know ; but
I heard Dr. Bill Ilollingsworth eay that
he would rather have the bodies of the
dead twins than the whole of Surry couu
ty. Coirespondent. What appearance did
the twins prescut after their death.
Mr. Armfield. Chang was nearly black
in the face, and looked as if he had died in
a fit or in great agony. Eng looked as if
he had been asleep.
Correspondent. Do you know whether
Eng made any expression of pain before
he died ?
Mr. Armfield. Yes. I inquired par
ticularly about that, and found that ho
called repeatedly to those around him to
rub and pull his arms and leg, that he
was cramped a sure idication of loss of
blood, or that the circulation was impeded
from some eause, and this confirms ihc it
the opinion that the death of Chang
superinduced that of Eng.
NO OPERATION aX THE LIGAMENT.
No effort whatever was made to per
form an operation on the ligament with
regard to ascertaining whether there wa
an artery pising through it or not, as
that would have materially interfered
with prospective greenbacks, and present
speculations would have been nipped in
the bud. Embalmed and preserved as.
tbey are, the bodies of the twins will havo
a market value from which money can
always be realized by those having pos
session of them. lhe ligament eut m
the interest of science, the curiosity
would be destroyed, and, consequently,
the separate dead bodies wound be of no
value. I have been iuformed, on the rao.t au
thentic authority, that Dr Joe Ilollings
worth, while en route for the North,
stated here that his mission there was to
dispose of the dead bodies of the twins
on the iuoa favorable terms he could ne
gotiate This accounts for the veil of
mystery which has been thrown over the .
deaths of the twins, and furnishes the
clew to the object in suppressing the real
cause of the death of Eng, by attributing
it to the shock or fright occasioned by
Chang's death.
The sum asked for the privilege of a
postmortem examination is staled to be
S3000 or $10,000.
Frank Cowan, who writes novels, tells
this in the last number of his Fajter :
That a burglar should be captured by a
skeleton seem an impossibility, but the
fact actually happening iu Greeusburg
ou Saturday night last disposes of auy
question as to possibility. Brcakiug into
a closed and unoccupied office of a physi
cian of that towu, a burglar opened a
closet (while his corupauiou with a dark
lantern was in another part of the room)
aud feeling for clothing at about the
height of closet hooks generally, got his
hands between the jaws ot a skelton,
which, being adjusted with u eoil spring
ank kept opeu with a thread, closed sud
denly on the iutrudiug hand by the break
ing of the thread. A sudden thought,
striking the burglar oMiis being caught
by a skelton in the doctor's closet, so ter
rified him that he uttered a faint shriek,,
and when bis companion turned the lan
tern toward hint and he beheld himself,
iu the prim and ghastly j.aws of Death
himself he became so overpowered by
fear that he faiuted, fell iruensible to the
floor, pulling tke (kclton down upon
him, and making so much noise that his
companion fled immediately, and the doc
tor alarmed at the noise and confusion,
hastened into the ofSe, and secured tho
terror-ttriekeu buicUr feliU held by the
skeleton 1 The pleadiaga of the burglar,
wka was reeognited by the physician a
a citizen of Greeusburg for several years,
and a iuan generally held iugoad esteem,
were so pitiful and effective that the doc
tor releaned him, showed him tho door,
and bade him good night with the toe of
his right boot, with a verbal reminder
that if he was ever afterward in Greens
burg an information would hi milo
ugH'Drl him forthwith-
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